2018 | Hilton Worldwide Holdings | Mention of sex trafficking or exploitation (sector specific)
Does the company, in its modern slavery statement, discuss the risk of sexual exploitation or trafficking in its operations and/or supply chains?
Yes
updated over 2 years ago by Lucia Ixtacuy

As signatory of the ECPAT Code of Conduct to combat child sexual exploitation in the travel industry since 2011, we have been providing training on risks of human trafficking for sexual exploitation to all our hotels. In 2018, we rolled out our new mandatory training requirement for all hotels globally as part of our required Brand Training. Our updated annual Code of Conduct training, now including a section on human rights, has been rolled out as a mandatory training to all Hilton Employees. Across both trainings, we trained 1,803 General Managers (68%) by the end of 2018. Another 53,700 Team Members across 5,070 hotels have taken the online training. Our Safety and Security teams and outside partners routinely train hotel Team Members on identifying and combatting human trafficking

 

We have been signatories of the ECPAT Code of Conduct since 2011 to fight the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and have been providing their training on identifying signs of trafficking to all our hotels.Our President and CEO, Chris Nassetta, is the Chair of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). In 2018, we supported the launch of the ECPAT/WTTC Call for Action for the Protection of Children in Travel and Tourism.

 

In order to better combat risks of trafficking for sexual exploitation, we have partnered with Vital Voices since 2012. In 2013, we co-founded the Global Freedom Exchange (GFE) programme to support women leaders at the forefront of global efforts to prevent and respond to human trafficking. Since its launch, we have helped empower 127 anti-trafficking women advocates from 50 countries. Some of the GFE Fellows went on to be recognized as Trafficking in Persons Heroes by the U.S. State Department, like Boom Mosby in 2017 and Francisca Awah Mbuli in 2018

 

page 3 and 5

Lucia Ixtacuy.....2021-12-01 12:12:19 UTC