Intersections between tourism market and marketing of sex in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

• Main Author: Cassiana Gabrielli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Turismo 2011-09-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo
• Subjects: Turismo sexual. Relações sociais de gênero. Interações culturais.
• Online Access: https://rbtur.org.br/rbtur/article/view/377

This essay presents some issues for discussion about the relationship between the tourist market and the sex trade in the city of Salvador, capital of Bahia State, situated in northeastern Brazil, focusing particular attention to the issue of gender relationships. Whereas tourism an important social mediator, it is proposed, based on some observations made in interviews with ten sex workers working in this city sights, dialoguing with other researchers of this theme, on the social and cultural relations between tourists and native, which may reflect elements of a broader reality, and through the interpretation of the ways in which the relationships between those involved in such a context are developed on the tourism and especially about his bias known as sexual tourism. It's worth noting that in the discussions presented here, we discuss only the female heterosexual prostitution.