Understanding sexual behaviour between tourists and locals

Bauer, Irmgard

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[Extract] Casual sexual encounters between fellow travellers, and travellers and local partners are abundant. Of those reporting sex while travelling, up to three quarters did so with local partners. A number of popular tourism destinations around the world advertise the increased availability of sexual opportunities, mixing the 'exotic' with the 'erotic'. Some destinations acquire a reputation among travellers through word-of-mouth recommendations. One such destination is the city of Cuzco in the Peruvian Andes. In May/June 2006, unstructured interviews in English, Spanish and German were conducted in Cuzco with 13 tourists and 10 locals, 19-50+ years old. Local men and women linked to tourism shared their views and experiences from the residents' point of view. It should be noted here that this paper does not cover the phenomenon of bricheros/bricheras, young locals hooking up with tourists for material gain, nor were they sought as interviewees. The interviewees were recruited through convenience and snowball sampling. Conversations generally took between 30 min and 2 h depending on the participants' availability and amount of information. Free and informed consent was obtained from all participants.

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