CheapTickets.com against trafficking

CheapTickets.com has removed its sponsorship of a new travel journalism blog which championed “informed sex tourism”. Referring to a recent article in the New York Times which claimed that Rio was not an easy place to buy sex, the blog, Gridskipper.com, thanked the New York Times and reminded its readership that they could always go to Bangkok. CheapTickets.com have taken a principled stance on this issue, recognising that sex tourism is not a joke and often results in slavery for children and young women. Sex trafficking will only be reduced when the culture which accepts it as fun or part of a business trip is changed.