A workshop focusing on the darker side of the Asian tourism industry will be hosted next Monday 12 February by Charles Sturt University (CSU). The "Prevention of Child Sex Tourism" workshop will aim to improve Australia’s response to the problem of child sex tourism in the Asia-Pacific region. Speakers from the Australian Federal Police, the Federal Government development agency AusAID and non-government organisation Childwise  as well as CSU will address the public forum. CSU lecturer and workshop organiser Sallie Yea says "Australia is prominent as a source of sex tourists in Asia. Last year for example, I interviewed 30 female minors in Cebu, the Philippines and all but two claimed to have had to service Australian clients. We hope the workshop will help address the human rights violations of the children sexually exploited in these situations." The workshop will run for the public from 9.30am to 2.30pm in the Boardroom, Gordon Beavan Building on the CSU Albury-Wodonga Campus at Thurgoona.