SECTT (sexual exploitation of children in travel & tourism)

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Stronger together: Tourism training partnerships help prevent child exploitation

, , and December 14, 2021

Stronger together preventing sectt sexual exploitation of travel and tourism through training

The sexu­al exploit­a­tion of chil­dren by those who use the ser­vices of the travel & tour­ism industry is a dif­fi­cult sub­ject to acknow­ledge let alone dis­cuss. This is why ECPAT Inter­na­tion­al, The Code, and ASSET‑H&C have partnered to give train­ers and edu­cat­ors use­ful tools to help pre­pare stu­dents to look out for and report signs […]

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How can travel & tourism protect children from sexual exploitation?

September 24, 2019
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how travel tourism protects children from sexual exploitation

Jod­ie Spen­cer tells us why the travel & tour­ism industry has a cru­cial role to play in pro­tect­ing chil­dren from sexu­al exploit­a­tion, out­lines some of the loc­al and glob­al efforts to do just that, and sug­gests how we can all play our part. Travel & tour­ism brings a great deal to loc­al com­munit­ies. It gen­er­ates 10% […]

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Coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism in Myanmar

September 21, 2017
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Myanmar coalition promotes Child Safe Tourism

While the world observes the troubles between the Rohingya and their neigh­bours in Myan­mar, the Uni­on’s tour­ism min­istry and the Myan­mar Respons­ible Tour­ism Insti­tute (MRTI) are work­ing with UNICEF to pro­mote Child Safe Tour­ism. Accord­ing to the Min­istry of Hotels and Tour­ism (MoHT), since July 31: “… sur­vey­ing and hold­ing aware­ness cam­paigns are being under­taken in […]

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Collective action, data are main challenges to fighting child sex tourism

July 29, 2017

global child sex tourism study

Fail­ure of col­lect­ive action and a chron­ic lack of robust data con­sti­tute the main chal­lenges to elim­in­ate child sex tour­ism accord­ing to Offend­ers on the Move: Glob­al Study on Sexu­al Exploit­a­tion of Chil­dren in Travel & Tour­ism 2016. Two weeks ago, the United Nations World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) HQ in Mad­rid hos­ted a “trans­ition meeting […]

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Is child sex tourism on the rise in Goa, India?

May 19, 2017

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The chil­dren of migrant work­ers in Goa, India are increas­ingly exploited for sex by domest­ic and for­eign tour­ists, accord­ing to a report. And tour­ism industry stake­hold­ers should adopt a child-friendly code — per­haps The Code? A research report, Walk­ing the tightrope: Exploit­a­tion of migrant chil­dren in Tour­ism in Goa, says tour­ism has contributed […]

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