Certain countries are well known for being destination countries for sexual exploitation of children in the context of travel and tourism (SECTT). Various factors are assumed to be at play to increase the vulnerability of countries, and the children that live within them, to being destinations for SECTT. The current study uses a cross-national, quantitative approach to examine these assumptions, by investigating macro-level factors relating to tourism, children's living conditions, governance, and economic development that may account for the variation in SECTT occurrence. Our findings indicate that destination countries are, on average, characterized by lower economic wealth and are located closer to the equator. Unlike assumed in previous literature, governance and tourism are not significantly related to destination countries for SECTT. The results for children's living conditions are unexpected: while bivariate analyses show that destination countries have poorer children's living conditions, a positive relation emerges in multivariate models when controlled for economic development. More specifically, we find that within the group of countries with poor economic conditions, SECTT is more likely to occur in countries with better protection of children's rights to life and education. We explore potential explanations for this finding.

某些国家以在旅行和旅游 (SECTT) 的背景下对儿童进行性剥削而闻名。假设有多种因素在起作用，以增加国家和居住在其中的儿童成为 SECTT 目的地的脆弱性。目前的研究使用跨国定量方法来检验这些假设，方法是调查与旅游、儿童生活条件、治理和经济发展相关的宏观因素，这些因素可能导致 SECTT 发生的变化。我们的研究结果表明，平均而言，目的地国家的经济财富较低，并且靠近赤道。与以往文献中的假设不同，治理和旅游业与 SECTT 的目的地国没有显着相关。儿童生活条件的结果出乎意料：虽然双变量分析表明目的地国家的儿童生活条件较差，但在控制经济发展的情况下，多元模型中出现了正相关关系。更具体地说，我们发现在经济条件较差的国家组中，SECTT更有可能发生在对儿童生命权和受教育权保护较好的国家。我们探讨了这一发现的潜在解释。我们发现，在经济条件较差的国家组中，SECTT更有可能发生在对儿童生命权和受教育权保护较好的国家。我们探索了这一发现的潜在解释。我们发现，在经济条件较差的国家组中，SECTT更有可能发生在对儿童生命权和受教育权保护较好的国家。我们探索了这一发现的潜在解释。