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...Some Aboriginal people want the site opened, because tourism would create much-needed jobs for youths. Others want it reburied, with a replica for visitors. While a management plan is devised, Webb worries about erosion: harsh winds are already starting to damage the trackways. For now, simpler measures are being used. A group of Aboriginal women sit filling dozens of knee-high stockings with hot sand. Barefoot, they then move carefully over the dazzlingly white claypan, its surface cracked like china and scattered with cinnamon-colored sand, placing a stocking on each print to shield it from the weather...
...child sexual exploitation in the Solomons, commissioned by the United Nations Children's Fund (unicef), was completed in 2004 but has never been publicly released. A copy obtained by Time documents dozens of examples of child sexual abuse - from underage prostitution to the manufacture of child pornography, child sex tourism and marriages of convenience. The report has been in the hands of the Solomon Islands government and ngos, as well as Australia's AusAID, for more than a year. It calls for an investigation of the allegations, tough countermeasures including a comprehensive child protection law, rapid tightening of existing laws...
...trafficking as “a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion,” including such forms of exploitation as “prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution, and sex tourism...
...fifth event this year in “The Big Question” series addressed the topic “Social Justice Tourism? What do service trips mean for us and for the places...
Hosting a major sporting event is big business, and the Super Bowl is no exception. From a purely financial standpoint, the influx of fans, teams, and support staff brings in considerable revenue for the catering, hotel, transportation, restaurant, and other tourism-related industries...