ATLANTA, Ga. – Lodges and motels are on the entrance traces of stopping and intercepting human intercourse and labor trafficking. AAHOA (Asian American Resort Homeowners Affiliation), the biggest resort homeowners affiliation on this planet, has been working with its 20,000 members to advertise consciousness and prevention methods for trafficking.
Because the homeowners of 34,000 accommodations across the nation, AAHOA Members are taking part in an enormous position in stopping the scourge of human trafficking. With estimates of tens of 1000’s of people being trafficked right here within the U.S., together with under-aged minors and younger kids, it’s completely the accountability of all of us to be alert, conscious, and able to take motion to report suspicious actions. AAHOA members are coordinating with regulation enforcement businesses and social companies to make sure that accommodations and motels are secure for everybody. Human trafficking has no place in our society. AAHOA President & CEO Laura Lee Blake
AAHOA is dedicated to selling consciousness of human trafficking by educating hoteliers and their staff on the way to spot and report suspected cases of human trafficking. AAHOA gives BEST Inhospitable to Human Trafficking Coaching, which is totally digital and free for all AAHOA Members and their staff. Throughout AAHOA’s Regional Convention & Commerce Present collection, members can earn certificates on website for the BEST Inhospitable to Human Trafficking Coaching, Sponsored by AAHOA. At this 12 months’s AAHOACON in Los Angeles, the Affiliation partnered with Covenant Home California to assist elevate cash and consciousness for youth dealing with homelessness and trafficking.
Throughout a latest city corridor assembly in California, hoteliers discovered about steps they will soak up occasions of disaster comparable to human trafficking, violence, and shoplifting, in addition to the significance of reporting crises to regulation enforcement whereas establishing a significant reference to native authorities officers. AAHOA additionally educated the attendees on the common “misery” hand sign, which victims can use to convey their want for rescue and help in human and intercourse trafficking conditions. AAHOA hopes to copy this mannequin in future City Corridor occasions throughout the nation.
AAHOA is additional endorsing the bipartisan Nationwide Human Trafficking Hotline Enhancement Act, which might introduce extra uniformity within the reporting of suspected human and intercourse trafficking by mandating that entities that contract with the Nationwide Human Trafficking Hotline cooperate with state and native regulation enforcement when receiving suggestions by the Hotline.
Sponsored by Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Kathy Castor (D-FL), the act strengthens the state-federal partnership to finish human trafficking.
As hoteliers who’re strongly dedicated to doing our half to cease human trafficking, AAHOA Members are proud to assist Rep. Laurel Lee and Rep. Kathy Castor’s laws to boost necessary reporting necessities. Lodges and different companies, our native regulation enforcement, and all Individuals should come collectively to guard our fellow human beings from the atrocious plague of intercourse and labor trafficking. We have to be continually vigilant to convey an finish to any type of trafficking in our accommodations. AAHOA Chairman Bharat Patel
About AAHOA
AAHOA is the biggest resort homeowners affiliation within the nation, with Member-owned properties representing a big a part of the U.S. financial system. AAHOA’s 20,000 members personal 60% of the accommodations in the USA and are chargeable for 1.7% of the nation’s GDP. Multiple million staff work at AAHOA member-owned accommodations, incomes $47 billion yearly, and member-owned accommodations assist 4.2 million U.S. jobs throughout all sectors of the hospitality trade. AAHOA’s mission is to advance and defend the enterprise pursuits of resort homeowners by advocacy, trade management, skilled growth, member advantages, and group engagement.
