Why Do Soldiers Need Tourism

When we talk about war and tourism, people always focus on the impacts of war to the industry but often neglect one of the main components of war - the soldiers. Soldiers played an important role during the wartime by not only fight and fulfill their mission, but also act as a tourist. In fact, war creates many opportunities for serving soldiers to be tourists during their “R&R” (rest and recreation) periods. In this essay, we will discuss why soldiers need tourism, the type of tourists that soldiers are and what kind of opportunity provided to serve soldiers to be tourists during the R&R.

Why soldiers need tourism?

During the war, soldiers are sent to the battlefield that may far away from their original place of residence. They may have
The highlight here are sex and alcohol industry. The R&R leave is also dubbed I&I (Intercourse and Intoxication) and A&A (Ass and Alcohol)(Alexander, B.,1998). It somehow represents that the main activities soldier participated in are related to sex and alcohol.

Thailand is the most well known example of sex tourism. During the Vietnam War, Bangkok was the most popular R&R destination for American soldiers as it was the cheapest place to go and there was rental female companionship, only at 1973 for example were up to 70,000 R&R visitors (Truong, Thanth-Dam.,1990). Soldiers can select a girl from a bar, and she was theirs las a guide and companion during their visit. It is legally contracted and enforceable. The girls spoke English, which is familiar to soldiers and they are likely to accept. Hence soldiers were enjoy

In addition, during the Korea War, when the American soldiers were on the R&R, most of their attention were drawn by many excellent commercial nightclubs run by Japanese. These clubs offered superb alcohol, professional performance of American pop and sex service from Japanese girls (Alexander, B.,1998). The service provided by the nightclub is totally fit soldiers’ needs: alcohol and sex, American style entertainment for soldiers as a solutions of their
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