Female tourists and beach boys: romance or sex tourism?
Herold, E.; Garcia, R.; DeMoya, T.
Annals of Tourism Research 28(4): 978-997
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7383 DOI: 10.1016/s0160-7383(01)00003-2Document Number: 294115
Previous studies of female tourists and beach boys in the Caribbean have defined these relationships as involving either sex or romance tourism. The objective of this study was to determine which of these definitions was more applicable to relationships in the Dominican Republic. The samples of this study were obtained at Puerto Plata, a beach resort on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Male (n=16) and female (n=14) Canadian tourists as well as beach boys (n=25) and female sex workers (n=21) were interviewed. Romance and sex tourism were conceptualized as the two ends of a continuum of motivations rather than as distinct categories. Although there was some gender overlap in the continuum of romance/sex motivations, more of the female tourists were located toward the romance end and more of the male tourists toward the sex end of the continuum.
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