"Hotel rooms can be used to film pornography, where women and children
are sexually exploited, or a base for traffickers and their victims."
"By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA, May 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An old man flanked by young women checks into a hotel, a customer books several rooms on the same floor and no one ever leaves the rooms, another brings guests and walks straight towards the hotel lift without checking in.
These are all possible signs of human trafficking that hotel staff across Mexico City are being trained to spot and report.
Those who own or manage hotels/motels should be considered, possible suspects. The perfect way to run a trafficking business would be hotel/motel owners, who hire employees who are in on the trafficking scheme, to make the trafficking unnoticeable to the untrained eye. Even to those who are trained. When owners/managers work together, there is the potential to silence, threaten employees, that might be on to their tricks and trade. Think like a criminal, to catch them.
An initiative between the Citizens Council of Mexico City, a civil society group, and the Mexico City Hotel Association, which brings together 251 hotels, aims to train at least 2,000 hotel staff this year across the capital.
"We view the crime of human trafficking as a chain. And every chain is made up of several links."
In Mexico, and across Latin America, the most common form of human trafficking involves women and girls forced into sex work..."
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