Poster Title
Date
2019
Student Major
Hospitality Administration
Abstract
Sex trafficking is defined as “a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery” (USC, Title 22, Chapter 78, 7102, Sec. 9A and B). Whether we realize or not, sex trafficking is looming specifically in hotel and lodging facilities. The ease of traffickers to use hotels and remain anonymous is a key factor in why sex trafficking in hotels is continuing to grow.
The purpose of this study is to put policies in place for local Nacogdoches hotels to help end sex trafficking. In providing training and policies to put into place, the hope is that these hotels will implement the policies to help fight human trafficking.
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Hospitality Fighting Against Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is defined as “a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery” (USC, Title 22, Chapter 78, 7102, Sec. 9A and B). Whether we realize or not, sex trafficking is looming specifically in hotel and lodging facilities. The ease of traffickers to use hotels and remain anonymous is a key factor in why sex trafficking in hotels is continuing to grow.
The purpose of this study is to put policies in place for local Nacogdoches hotels to help end sex trafficking. In providing training and policies to put into place, the hope is that these hotels will implement the policies to help fight human trafficking.
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Faculty Mentor: Gina Fe G. Causin, Ph.D.