Code of Conduct with the purpose of protecting children and adolescents against sexual exploitation related to tourism.

In 2003 Costa Rica started with the process of this code carried out by Fundacion PANIAMOR in cooperation with professionals from the tourism sector.

The idea of this code of conduct has emerged in other countries as well, where tourism has its origin and its destination. Its aim is to inbound the tourism industry in the combat of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents related to tourism.

Today this code has been converted into the international organization "The Child Protector Code" with its permanent sit in New York.

In Costa Rica the code is promoted within the whole nation with special emphasis in the regions mainly attended by tourists. Since 2008 the implementation of the code has become a strategic action belonging to the National Plan against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents related to tourism.