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Occasional paper which is part of a series from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council. It analyses the sex tourism industry in the Asian region and its human cost. Includes case studies from various nations including Korea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The issue is examined as an issue of justice and religion, and from economic and development perspectives. Includes a supplementary section which discusses the new Australian Federal Government's Child Sex Tourism Bill (and amendment to the Crimes Act). The author is a Redemptorist priest from India. He has been a member of the Ecumenical Coalition in Third World Tourism and was involved in the Australian-based campaign to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) from its inception in 1990 until 1993.