Protecting paradise:: tourism and AIDS in the Dominican republic
Protecting paradise:: tourism and AIDS in the Dominican republic
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DOI：
10.1093/heapol/13.3.277
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发表时间：
1998-09-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
De Lister, MB
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作者：
Forsythe, S;Hasbún, J;De Lister, MB
本研究总结了对多米尼加共和国（dr）的游客、酒店工作人员和商业性工作者（CSWs）使用的六种数据收集工具的结果。本研究的目的是评估：1。2.艾滋病毒/艾滋病如何影响旅游业；游客可能对预防活动有何反应；说谎。旅游如何影响艾滋病毒/艾滋病的传播。调查发现，绝大多数游客在制定旅行计划时并不认为艾滋病毒的流行是一个因素，而且大多数人并不认为自己在度假时比在家时感染艾滋病毒的风险更大。本研究确定艾滋病毒/艾滋病的传播不太可能影响刚果民主共和国对旅游服务的需求。研究还发现，大多数游客会积极响应艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防运动，并且不会因为这些运动而劝阻他们参观刚果民主共和国。根据研究数据，那些最容易接受预防措施的人也是那些认为自己风险最高的人。最后，我们确定，虽然大多数游客可能不从事高风险活动，但有一些男性和女性游客确实与多名多米尼加女服务员和酒店员工发生性接触。这些接触对刚果民主共和国的健康和经济发展以及游客及其其他性伴侣构成风险。基于这些发现，建议为了最大限度地减少艾滋病毒/艾滋病在刚果民主共和国的潜在社会和经济影响，预防信息需要到达一些尚未充分针对的群体。这些群体包括游客，特别强调“性游客”，以及酒店员工，特别强调娱乐员工。
This study summarizes results from six data collection instruments administered to tourists, hotel workers, and commercial sex workers (CSWs) in the Dominican Republic (D.R.). The objective of this study was to assess:1. how HIV/AIDS may affect tourism;2. how tourists are likely to react to prevention campaigns; and3. how tourism may affect the spread of HIV/AIDS.It was found that an overwhelming proportion of tourists did not consider the prevalence of HIV to be a factor when making their travel plans, and that most did not consider themselves at greater risk of becoming infected while on holiday than when they were at home. This study determined that the spread of HIV/AIDS was unlikely to affect the demand for tourism services in the D.R.The study also found that most tourists would respond positively to an HIV/AIDS prevention campaign and would not be discouraged from visiting the D.R, because of such campaigns. Those most receptive to prevention efforts were also those who felt they were at highest risk, according to study data.Finally, it was determined that while most tourists probably do not engage in high risk activities, there were some male and female tourists who do engage in sexual encounters with multiple Dominican CSWs and hotel employees. These encounters represent a risk to the health and economic development of the D.R., as well as to tourists and their other sexual partners.Based on these findings, it is recommended that in order to minimize the potential social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS in the D.R., prevention messages need to reach a number of groups which have not yet been adequately targeted. These groups include tourists, with a special emphasis on 'sex tourists', and hotel employees, with a special emphasis on entertainment staff.