Hotels, Sex Trafficking and London 2012

This leaflet, written and researched by ECCR and commissioned by CCLA Investment Management, managers of the COIF Charities Ethical Investment Fund outlines how FTSE listed hotel companies can become implicated in the crime of human sex trafficking. It shows what hotel groups Whitbread and Intercontinental Hotel Group are doing to respond to the problem and how ethical investors can help to address this issue in advance of the London Olympics.

Update: Since first establishing contact with the companies in question and the initial publication of this leaflet ECCR and CCLA are delighted to note the publication of a position statement on human trafficking by the International Tourism Partnership (ITP), of whom both InterContinental Hotels Group and Whitbread are members.   For more information read our update document.