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Human trafficking is a crime that often involves travel – traffickers move victims by cars, planes, trains, and buses and between countries, states, or cities within a state. This summer, as you use multiple modes of transportation to travel for business or a vacation, take a few moments to view the following list of anti-trafficking…
WASHINGTON, DC – The AHLA Foundation proudly announced today that Foundation-funded human trafficking awareness trainings have been completed more than one million times by hotel employees across the industry. Developed by Marriott International and administered by PACT (previously known as ECPAT-USA), the trainings are part of an industry-wide initiative to help hotel employees recognize and…
The American Hotel & Lodging Association Foundation has launched an advisory council of industry leaders dedicated to preventing human trafficking and supporting trafficking victims, it announced Tuesday. The No Room for Trafficking Advisory Council will develop and oversee a fund support human trafficking survivors and further “collective anti-trafficking efforts that meet the needs of today’s hospitality employers, employees and…
Virginia could be doing more to prevent human trafficking and help survivors, according to the latest report from a state commission tasked with studying the issue. The Commission on Human Trafficking Prevention and Survivor Support found enforcement hasn’t been consistent in the state, and said a regional approach would better coordinate law-enforcement efforts. The commission’s…
800K+ Employees Trained to Identify & Report Suspected Human Trafficking Since 2020 $2.5M Contributed to industry’s first-ever Survivor Fund “In 2021, 10,359 situations of human trafficking were reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline involving 16,554 individual victims. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction of the actual problem,” said…
As travel demand continues to surge, Marriott International (MAR) is spearheading a movement to address one of the biggest social issues in the hotel industry. “Human trafficking is a scourge on humanity, and unfortunately, a lot of it happens using hotels as an environment,” Marriott International President and CEO Anthony Capuano told Yahoo Finance Live…
Today, It’s a Penalty launched its 14th global campaign ahead of Super Bowl LVII focused on harnessing the power of sport to prevent abuse, exploitation and human trafficking. Through partnerships with Hilton Hotels, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Airbnb, Motel 6, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and many others, the 2023 Super Bowl campaign covers travel touchpoints…
With eyes on Arizona this week, one organization has launched a campaign — It’s a Penalty — to raise awareness about a crisis: human trafficking. The numbers are staggering. Among the facts and figures from It’s A Penalty, which works collaboratively to end human trafficking, exploitation and abuse using major sports events as vehicles for…
Hard Rock International marked January 11 as the National Human Trafficking Awareness Day by expanding action to strengthen the industry’s role in combating and preventing human trafficking. Human trafficking, which includes commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, is “a complex challenge for the entire global hospitality industry because it intersects a range of organized criminal…
One million Marriott International associates globally have been trained to recognize and respond to signs of human trafficking BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — With the United Nations General Assembly recognition of Human Rights Day on December 10, 2022, Marriott International today announced it has successfully trained one million associates to spot the signs of…
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