New Benchmarking Report Measures the Travel Industry’s Fight Against Trafficking
The private sector plays a major role in ensuring profits do not come at the expense of children. Particularly in the travel and hospitality industry, there is both a great responsibility and opportunity to ensure associates have the knowledge and resources to address human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
That is why ECPAT-USA began partnering with travel companies in 2004. They began by releasing The Code, a set of six guidelines for travel companies looking to comprehensively address the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Then, ECPAT-USA helped companies utilize these guidelines to expand their efforts to address all forms of trafficking. However, despite developing a unified mission, companies began adopting their own set of operational and procedural changes. These differences needed to be fully understood and shared so companies could learn from each other.
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