human trafficking solutions
AAHOA Backs Best Practices, Enhanced Reporting Requirements to End Human Trafficking
AAHOA | August 1, 2023
ATLANTA, Ga., August 1, 2023 – Hotels and motels are on the front lines of preventing and intercepting human sex and labor trafficking. AAHOA (Asian American Hotel Owners Association), the largest hotel owners association in the world, has been working with its 20,000 members to promote awareness and prevention strategies for trafficking. “As the owners of 34,000 hotels around the country, AAHOA Members are playing a huge role in preventing the scourge of human trafficking,” said AAHOA President & CEO Laura Lee Blake. “With estimates of tens of thousands of individuals being trafficked here in the U.S., including under-aged m...
Why Human Trafficking Is Booming – And How Hoteliers Can Stop This Trend
TraknProtect | February 1, 2022
By Parminder Batra As of 2020, the International Labor Organization and Walk Free Foundation estimated that 24.9 million people are victims of human trafficking across both private industries and state-imposed forced labor per year. Of that bone-chilling number, 30% of the global human trafficking victims are children, and 49% of all victims of international trafficking are women. There is simply no denying it – human trafficking is a worldwide issue that cannot, and should not, be ignored. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the human trafficking epidemic. As stay-at-home orders were issued around the world, t...
Hotel Industry Joins Nation’s Mayors To Advance Human Trafficking Solutions
AHLA | January 28, 2020
AHLA Leads Dialogue at USCM on Coordination, Innovative Tools to Stop Traffickers Washington, D.C. (January 28, 2019) – Today, the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) led a national dialogue with hundreds of mayors around the country to advance solutions to stop human trafficking in hotels. President and CEO Chip Rogers hosted a panel of leading Mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s 88th Winter Meeting to explore the coordination between the hotel industry and mayors as they partner to deploy targeted strategies and take action to combat trafficking in cities across the country. Today’s event builds on efforts throu...
