Child Sex Trafficking in the Tourism Sector in Sri-Lanka

This qualitative study provided a platform for the victims' voices to be heard as they described their actual experiences. h focused on generating an in-depth understanding on child sex trafficking in the tourism sector in Sri Lanka.

The research aimed to provide new knowledge on main research questions of

• (a) What are the experiences of child victims of trafficking?
• (b) How can children who are vulnerable to trafficking be identified and supported early, to prevent them from being trafficked into the sex tourism industry?
• (c) How can victims of trafficking be identified for timely interventions?

These questions required understanding about children who were particularly vulnerable to trafficking and the push & pull factors such as parental migration etc. that lead children to become victims.