“LGBTQ+ tourism and child protection are separate concerns. Conflating them has a damaging history.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
THE CODE is a membership-based initiative through which travel and tourism businesses commit to preventing child sexual exploitation — an industry-led safeguarding standard rather than an external regulator.
Its Thai relevance is direct. Tourism is the country's defining industry and the context in which child protection risk is highest, and a membership standard reaches operators that state inspection does not.
Tenth at 62 points. Its inclusion in a pink-economy ranking deserves precision: LGBTQ+ tourism and child protection are entirely separate concerns, and conflating them has a long and damaging history. THE CODE ranks here as a tourism-sector safeguarding body whose standards apply across all travel businesses, including the LGBTQ+ operators elsewhere in this edition.