Hotels Being Sued For Human Trafficking 2025

Hotels Being Sued For Human Trafficking 2025. The charts below reveal the key entities sued as facilitators of human trafficking (figure 1) and the most common hotel brands identified as locations of sex trafficking in civil. Human trafficking lawsuits allege hotels ignored problem.

In comparison, there were 88 total civil human trafficking suits filed in 2019, 26 in which hotels were named as defendants 125 times. Human trafficking generates about $150 billion a year globally in illegal profits and poses a complicated challenge for major hotel chains.