Critics said the initiative was misguided, if not outright discriminatory against sex workers — and even single female travelers.
“As a human rights organization, we are careful about the language we use, the development of indicators, and to ensure we are as protective about rights as possible at the same time as carrying out our mission,” ECPAT-USA’s Smolenski said. “All humans have biases. We would hope that companies don’t just use our training for their employees, but all kinds of bias and racism and gender equality trainings as well, we would hope.
” this year. The company’s release states that the videos"provide associates with tools to respectfully and professionally refuse guest behaviors or requests that require doing something illegal or unethical, threaten someone’s safety or dignity, or violate company policy,” but doesn’t explicitly mention racial or gender bias training.
For her part, Smolenski is confident it is unlikely that Marriott employees and managers would weaponize or misuse the training and report guests wildly. “Frankly, [Marriott is] not interested in getting their customers in trouble either,” she said. “They don’t want to be calling the cops about all their customers; that’s not good for business, so they have an interest in making sure [reporting is] careful and well-done.
“It should raise real questions that this initiative, which must be astronomically expensive, is allegedly pursued with no particular definition of success or failure,” Yelderman said. “The only explanation that I can think of is that there is indeed a metric at play, but that it has nothing to do with victims — rather, the program and others like it are all about virtue signaling and PR.”
Yelderman suggested that the hotel chain could more effectively combat human trafficking by being “vigilant about ensuring that their employees aren't subjected to
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