End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (Bulletin)

Posted by Carol Smolenski
February 22, 2010

A partnership of Change.org and ECPAT-USA has brought Choice Hotels to the the conclusion that they have to help prevent the commercial sexual exploitation of children. They have agreed to:

	Develop a training designed to teach key staff to recognize child prostitution and take appropriate steps with help from ECPAT-USA. This training will be incorporated into the week-long training given to all new franchisees;
	Develop training materials on child prostitution prevention that will be published on the Choice University website, available to most employees; and
	Develop training materials that can be downloaded from Choice University website for individual hotels to share with their employees who do not normally see the website itself.

While they have not "gone all the way" by signing the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism (www.thecode.org), we are grateful they have taken one of the steps, by agreeing to these trainings.

For more information about the campaign led by Change.org, go here:

http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/
victory_choice_hotels_takes_action_to_prevent_child_prostitution