Why Hotels Like Marriott Have A Human Trafficking Problem

[@sebastianreyes8526]

I used to work for Hilton and we take trafficking very seriously. We would pay attention to every single guest and suspicious activity. No amount of profit is worth giving a blind eye to such acts

[@JamesHarris-fi9fh]

Marriott, Hilton, and holiday inn all involved in it

[@maggiesanford8324]

What does a human trafficker really look like though? I am a 40 year old woman who dresses very casually with ski caps, short hair and joggers. I also skateboard. People often assume I'm homeless when I am actually an upper-middle class, college-educated housewife. I like to get hotel rooms often in neighboring areas just for a change and to be alone. I spend most of my time skateboarding in the parking lot or hanging out at the mall like it's 1997 all over again. You should see the looks on hotel staff's and other guests' faces. I've had many false assumptions made about me based on my appearance.

[@brittaolson6550]

@@maggiesanford8324 Thank you! There are also a lot of couples who rent rooms to spend some time together (if one partner lives in another city, or they leave kids home with a sitter. I used to do this, and would wear heels, short dresses, and makeup to let him know it was a big deal for me to see him. I know I got some side eye from the desk, sometimes. And hotels are used by people having casual hookups, which some ladies also get dolled up for. Do we have to be worried about doing this? What ever happened to the phrase, “get a room”?

[@axeltech9914]

Yes, we marriott are committed to this issue seriously. Its emphasised in our premises over and over again.

[@zeroroninoh]

@@maggiesanford8324 it depends but we have to do a a day course on it when I worked at Hilton to ensure that we can spot it this was in 2021

[@perfectfae3534]

I was human trafficked. A hotel staff member did call the police, but literally nothing happened. The cops came & spoke to us victims right in front of the person trafficking us. Of course we said nothing was going on. They never spoke to us separately. We left right away & nothing happened. I finally escaped one day at night & the guy that picked me up was another human trafficker. He ended up bringing me so far. Once I was left alone, I literally called the person who had been trafficking me to come save me from another trafficker. I hid in a stairwell until he got there. Once I was able to finally escape for real, 2 of the ppl involved in trafficking me were arrested for trafficking & it brought me so much joy. They were pulled over & their victim wrote a help me message on their phone & pointed it towards the police while they were still in the car. Heroin was sometimes used to keep victims around. I'm now 33. This happened about a decade ago. If you're a police officer, please try not to blame the victims & allow them to speak alone!

[@affie3279]

Omg ❤

[@nohandle508]

Omg indeed... I hope you feel safer now. Thank you for leaving the comment.

[@bellaamore7693]

A friend of mine her husband is a police officer. She told me a lot of women on the streets as prostitutes are being trafficked. That was the first time I learned about this.

[@Sssssss4433]

What was the hotel?

[@jaylu7021]

Where were your parents and family? Was this trafficker a ex bf? I wonder how women end up in places like this sometimes.

[@gaymoshpit]

PLEASE BE CAREFUL AT THE RESIDENCE INN BY MARRIOTT MIAMI AIRPORT. There have been reports about the front desk staff letting strange men have key cards to women’s rooms without proper IDs. The police were called and nothing was done so I would fully steer clear.

[@ma567i]

Good for you

[@truthseeker4084]

OMG, thanks so much for pointing that out. I wanted to rest there for one night coming from Switzerland and continue driving by car the next day, I read your comment and recognized the hotel I booked. I cancelled it and booked another hotel with better rating on safety!!

[@ursulasmith6402]

That sounds to me like they are involved. Remember and never forget that those large hotels are owned by the elites.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Important to note Marriott don't own 99% of their hotels since they run a franchise model but there are definitely lots of hotel managements that turn a blind eye in name of profit.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

OF COURSE! It's a huuuuge way for hotels to quickly increase profits. Don't think for a MINUTE that Trump hotels weren't participating from day one, lol!

[@moahhabiib]

not franchise , it is managerial contracts in alot of locations , I don't remember the breakdown but managerial contracts is the bigger portion out if the three ( owning , franchise , managerial )

[@4Realkevv]

EXACTLY SOME BE LIKE BROTHELS ALSO IN LA

[@ethananime3773]

Well when ppl get paid a very low wage and long hours staff don't care

[@alphaomega5909]

My eldest daughter,, decades ago . West Michigan, Grand Rapids. By age 19, found her "Gift". A outgoing ,chatter, very well mannered. She discovered,,at the Marriot fancy lounge ,restaurant she worked at? The local businessmen, local judges, attorneys, etc? Who lived in Ada,Cascade,,? Picked up those "high class " call girls.She was zytending college. Then at the Marriot? Discovered Prominent Businessmen, Pastors, those "Good Men" ,,? You ,,I hope get my point. This is a long complex "Conservative, aka Christian based Fib. In Grand Rapids, West Michigan deliberately hidden history.Even today.

[@yli5531]

I would like to see a video on how human trafficking is done, what are the most common practices, and how we can avoid being victims.

[@crosses101]

Pay Jake Tran😉

[@ShrandaM]

Pay attention and ask yourself why someone is asking you particular questions.

[@canduscanty8583]

The people that run this country are complicit and the media is involved in misinformation they will never speak the actual truth about it they'll just tell you what they want you to know to make you feel informed it's all fluff

[@ursulasmith6402]

Avoid becoming a victim is not asking and going with strangers.

[@stankythecat6735]

Sounds like you are looking for a “how to manual”

[@freddytang2128]

The Marriott lady talking about mandatory training reminds me of how HSBC and Wells Fargo have ethics code of conducts. Training or rules dont mean anything if management has a culture of looking the other way and only paying lip service to the training

[@LeeeroyJenkins]

I know a motel 6 that is notorious for state and local warrant searches, and they have a bunch of barricaded suspects in the at motel at least once a month.

[@lazyislander4605]

It’s a carefully scripted speech what did you expect

[@charliecounts2794]

Girl reminds me of my alarm clock

[@abrahamkuyoc7311]

Dude the hotel I work for has empathy as a Core value AND they exploit ppl. That means nothin

[@gravityissues5210]

Yeah, I'm sure no one could tell you anything you'd believe, except a KZbin channel playing into your cynicism and confirming your biases. What exactly do you expect Marriott to do, again? I doubt you have an answer, but thank god you're here to blow on about it and get your precious thumb's ups.

[@azrolnajmi1039]

slavery never die it just change name and business module

[@vintagegenious]

Old-school slavery is still there too

[@DavisBenjaminA]

Don’t like how prostitution and actual “human trafficking” are thrown together. The two are very different.

[@smithsonestime5422]

Danm right 💯

[@mayataylor5743]

Yes

[@realreviews4102]

Facts but that will go over many heads and if’s obvious why.

[@guydreamr]

Yep and the difference would be consent vs coercion.

[@mgmassey174]

Bull Most prostitution survivors have experienced trafficking.

[@realkat]

As a previous manager who worked at Marriott, and 3 different Hilton brand hotels- I am very aware of how human trafficking is not on the list of concerns for these companies. How can anyone expect a business that many times knowingly “hires” trafficked housekeepers, and other back of the house staff to take the issue of human trafficking seriously? It’s those trafficked workers and guests that make the pockets of the company bigger and bigger. The whole ‘our employees receive blah blah xyz training for a whopping 60 min every 2 years’ is a completely joke. Firstly, most hotel employees don’t even stick around one year. Hotels have some of the highest turnover. And those 60 min training modules- most employees click through them on mute while on their phones. And for the ones that do pay attention, it’s just as good as them not seeing the training at all- because systemically all the other multiple hours of training over several days for all the other hotel policies and procedures quickly reminds the employee of what’s really important: the customer’s always right, and make sure to get “heads in beds.” It’s more important to make sure a paying guest doesn’t feel discriminated against or uncomfortable by the suspicions of an employee. It all comes down to doing whatever it takes to sell rooms, and effectively turning a blind eye to the precious paying customers that keep the front desk staff getting paychecks. The “training” nonsense is your typical corporate CYA protocol: do the minimum so that you can say you did your part when you become a defendant in all these lawsuits. I noticed one commenter stated that Marriott doesn’t own 99% of their hotels- but that doesn’t matter because it’s precisely their management and training that is implemented by operations. Hotels are in the business of making money- point blank. Hiltons and Marriotts just see this problem as a normal part of doing business. These lawsuits don’t faze them. Until hotels actually start doing in person trainings with Polaris advocates to engage with the front desk staff, but most importantly, housekeeping/housemen staff, and truly get them concerned by providing real life scenarios and implementing a step by step process of what to do when human trafficking is suspected, with a guarantee that bringing these concerns to management will not threaten their employment…we won’t see a positive trend in tackling human trafficking in hotels.

[@ltcfilms9586]

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[@AmS-c5z]

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[@jfyne03]

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[@budwiser5798]

WOW!! that's a lot of inside info have you gone to Law enforcement ? Have you contacted anyone!? Or just typed anecdotal stories to the internet!? Are you part of the solution or part or the problem!?

[@jordannapier9337]

If you want hotels to be more proactive when it comes to identifying and reporting human trafficking, I suggest you look at hotels themselves and who they're employing. They often hire undocumented workers who are hesitant to speak to the police, are exploited by their employers, and fear retribution for reporting frequent customers

[@ccrozz99]

Ah yes, lets go after the people who are just trying to work. Let’s ignore the corrupt management and the actual human traffickers.

[@nadiabarahona4879]

Hello, as someone who worked at a hotel for 10.50, nobody wants to work for that pay. & right now a lot of people would not meet ends with that amount. In one day I do 18 rooms, double beds. The people who work at these hotels work very hard, and they are also being exploited and used. I was not able to even stand near the breakfast area because it’s an eyesore to customers. Also 99% of people who check into hotels do not tip! Imagine doing 18 rooms for 10.50, without breakfast without more than a 30 minute break until 5 or 6.

[@kngil91]

@@ccrozz99 the person was not talking bad about the undocumented employees but of the abuse they suffer by employers and the fear they have to speak up.

[@sapphiremoonangel]

@@ccrozz99 I don't think it's about going after them. It's about understanding and admitting that hotels also profit off of forms of trafficking and the staff isn't necessarily going to feel safe to report the things they see when they are also potentially going to get in trouble.

[@missgymjunkie9374]

Not true no undocumented workers where I have worked.

[@ErinMar]

As a woman that travels alone often… man I’m tired of always being on alert

[@Rain_9908]

What a world we live in

[@beautybonvoyage8624]

Yeah, not to mention our connectivity to the internet has caused information overload probably more than any other group of humans in history. Hence why so many have mental or emotional problems. People can't let their minds rest. WHen you in your house you gotta worry about stuff happening around the world beyond your control or worry about what crazy stuff the gov. is up to. When you're out you gotta be watching for all signs of all sorts of creeps and spychos in society.

[@FitraHomestead]

Which is why it's not a good idea to travel alone as a woman.

[@alexisf22]

Don’t travel alone as a female

[@Mariesrares]

@@FitraHomesteadit’s just unfair that men can travel alone & women can’t

[@bellaamore7693]

When I was 16 years I worked in a "haunted house" for Halloween. Afterwards I would catch a bus in downtown. One evening I noticed a car parked close to the bus stop with a rather young black man driving. He said "hi" to me and asked me if I wanted job. I told him "no". He was parked at the bus stop for several evenings, and a few times he asked me if I wanted a job. A woman who also caught the same bus told me he wanted me for prostitution. He never got out of his car, nor did he threaten me, but was really nice and actually polite. It wasn't until years later I learned that this man wanted me for trafficking.

[@thesourpatchkidd579]

The stranger grab has always been the most polarizing abduction/trafficking story because it's the most gripping but it's also the easiest to swallow. But the reality is predators hunt in their comfort zones, and most people who are kidnapped, trafficked, and/or sexually assaulted are done so by someone they know. Someone who took advantage of their vulnerabilities, lulled you into a false sense of security so that your guard would be down when they attacked or you wouldn't even realize what you were facing until it was already too late.

[@reckonerwheel5336]

This is an insightful comment. Victims tend to be people with severe mental health problems, youth in need of money because their parents kicked them out of the house, undocumented immigrants. If you're a person who lives in a safe home and you have money to eat, you're hard to manipulate.

[@lilfish5124]

@@reckonerwheel5336 this is not the only way and they "break" people who are abducted. It does a disservice to women and girls who need to be aware to say this doesn't happen, because it absolutely does. . M and they need to take what precautions they are able.

[@sssara97]

well said! totally true. tiktok has also contributed to ‘abduction panic’ - hundreds of thousands of women saying how they were ‘almost snatched’ from a walmart bc someone looked at them or asked them something. i’m all for women sharing safety tips/warning but NOT ENOUGH IS BEING SAID about the EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER risk of abuse/trafficking when it is someone you KNOW! ESPECIALLY like you said, people with mental illness, minorities, undocumented, underage, substance abuse, broken home, poverty, etc.

[@TEWMUCH]

Yup. Like the music industry

[@meganblasco2]

What are the budget type hotels doing to prevent trafficking? They are the type of hotels that have a higher number of these cases.

[@jamiehershon]

yeah i'm kind of amazed at that too. the ones with pimps and all that are typically going to the cheap, roadside motels.

[@seanthe100]

Right that's their main source of revenue

[@szasremmurd8002]

Not a dayum thang!!

[@stick2dascript845]

smaller ones can't do much due to lack of funds, pimps and traffickers usually look for the cheap hotels that have a door on the outside to get in, they don't mess with this big spots. The hotel in this video is honestly something the bad guys will go to, too many cameras and all the doors on the inside.

[@alostbard]

Hotel Manager 20+ years, I have witnessed two distinct types of human trafficking; 1. Hispanic immigrants from Central America, usually taken at Mexico's southern border while migrating north by cartels. Their daily lives can be highly conntrolled, from paying rent for living space to the cartel, to the job itself (easier jobs are reserved for immigrants from Mexico). 2. Immigrants specifically to the Indian historic caste culture, usually living at site of the hotel and presented as a distant family member. Later, after enough time, one learns they are actually lower caste members whose family has been in service to the hotel owner's family for generations. Both examples are so wide-spread and deeply ingrained in the U.S. hotel industry, it would take a major cultural shift, or revolution, to end it.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Precisely. It would seem that the average person is totally uninformed, and possibly(?) believes that only 'cheap' hotel chains run underground rackets! 🤣😂🤣 I can't believe people's naivety.

[@Cippy33]

Damn didn’t know the second one. Same thing with gas stations?

[@einfachnurleo7099]

That's very disturbing. I haven't heard of it here in Europe but who knows...

[@seanthe100]

Indians own a ton of motels that I've seen, and I always assume they are all family members. Never thought these people could be forced makes you think about these convenience stores as well you always think they are family.

[@mc1618]

los algodones mexico too ?

[@missgymjunkie9374]

I have worked in several hotels (Marriott, Hilton, Hampton, Staybridge and Wyndham)and never had training on trafficking.

[@graciekiracofe]

I had it with Marriott and Hilton. They have computer training on it that front desk and housekeeping have to complete.

[@ballplayer4301]

What if the independent franchise owners are in on it ?

[@michellemarie1197]

Yup, I worked at Fairfield Inn by Marriott and we had to take training to spot human trafficking. A few towns over it happened at hotel and it was with children, it doesn't just happen in big cities, people need to remember that in big cities they are used to and have knowledge of dangerous acts so they keep an eye out, however In more rural areas like I am, it easier to get away with stuff cause you have less witnesses, in towns near me we are a hub for criminal activity from people traveling from Denver.

[@manicpepsicola3431]

I agree with this I live in a smaller town in Texas but it's a crossroad for travel for most cities across the state so there is a lot of crime and our hotels have huge prostitution problems and I'm not convinced they care to really do anything about it unless it isn't super obvious and they're forced to do something.

[@majesticgee7610]

@@manicpepsicola3431 something has to get done. it's absolutely absurd that we allow these women to make this money that will support them and they won't need to rely on any man. And imagine all the husbands giving away their hard-earned money to these filthy low life women. Instead of going out and finding the only husband to support them. Who do they think they are?

[@stick2dascript845]

agreed, here i n South Florida it's basically non-existent to a extent. the smaller cities outside of Orlando, Jacks and South FLorida are more known for trafficking. I know I think it's called Port something around Tampa that's huge, they catch 100s of johns per month.

[@jupiterthree5228]

I work in a hotel, we also had to take training. Also for active shooters, that was fun

[@mayar7498]

@@stick2dascript845 Haha I'm in south Florida too and your very wrong. Trafficking in and around Miami is huge

[@latyshal.2286]

All Uber, Lyft, cab, and public transit drivers should be required to take this training as well. Many human trafficking victims were rescued from their traffickers because someone recognized the signs and immediate contacted the police.

[@athens31415]

Unfortunately, a lot of cops do nothing when it's reported, because they themselves are customers of the traffickers. You have to be lucky and have the cops respond to the complaint and actually do their jobs.

[@Cantetinza17]

I have a friend that works in SVU and she said that traffickers use every hotel from the motel 6 to the expensive ones. In San Diego it's a HUGE problem. I remember when the marriot near the airport was a main place for trafficking and prostitution for obvious reasons and I think after that they really made changes.

[@user-sf9gs2pg1b]

I live there :| that explains all the human trafficking signs I constantly see, warning about it and giving numbers to call.

[@americafirst6492]

What is a Managers wage? Staff? Minimum wage is $7.25 hour. No one can survive on that. This goes to the Top$-- When you have poverty, you create chaos/survival. Motels are temporary shelter for a short stay, even employees are immigrants or people desperate for a job. Where is the money? Where is the help to stop human trafficking and exploitation? Those who are involved need more than going to jail, bonding out, and right back doing the same thing. I couldn't afford to stay in the motels, unless they were cheap, and they're cheap for a reason. One in Florida where the mattress looked like a crime scene had taken place. I spoke to the owner, who didn't like me asking questions. West VA. I got charged, card stolen, and cancelled. It was a very 'active' place! Horrifying when you experience or see what's happening because of unaffordable housing, homelessness, hopelessness and those stealing our*$money should be in prison!

[@thatgui88]

​@@americafirst6492 I find it crazy people say that government should not get involved in housing even if it's a little bit. I'm assuming unaffordable housing crises adds to human trafficking dilemma. Interesting comment btw. Did not think about that at all. If the staff is in poverty they are more than likely to be involved.

[@yvhj9275]

What about Airbnb with a fully automatic check in ? Airbnb should also be made accountable.

[@adelakhmed3869]

airbnb's usually arent used by them. You cant book anything unless you submit your ID and Credit card. Im sure they dont like that lol Hotels and motels can be booked with cash lol

[@carwalk1280]

​@adelakhmed3869 which is very rare nowadays at least in the big city where I live you hv to book with a cc

[@SERGlO_MAX]

"Trainings" are one of the most overrated steps to avoid human trafficking and is also costing tax payer a lot of money that is not well used. The staff can attend the training but they still do not care. In America what others do is none of your business until they mess with your pocket, so let's do that. Strict regulations are needed (Laws that will take their money out of their pockets) let's say: Compensation to the city if the hotel gets involved in human trafficking and gets cought for the first and second time... Monetary compensation and closing the hotel for a month if they get caught for the third time in human trafficking. With these laws you'll see how hotels will do EVERYTHING in their power to avoid ANY attempt of human trafficking within their premises.

[@DCamp1271]

I love these suggestions! trainings mean nothing but are sufficient to get people in power to shut up and get off your back when neither you or they have any skin in the game. I found the Marriott spokesperson very irritating and dismissive.

[@rebeccavoyles5151]

Im against human trafficking I work in a hotel by Marriott and I'm always watching for stuff like this

[@kierkegardashian]

I'm a Hispanic man and my wife is Asian. We are the kind of couple that holds hands all the time and our demeanor is clearly couple-ish. We've been reported for "suspicious activity" a few times 🤣

[@M-np4wv]

Lmaoo Suspicious activity 🤣🤣🤣

[@RealJustinRoblox]

That’s such a cool mix, what type of Hispanic are you and Asian are you guys? Really unique.

[@LyssaDiamond]

Omg! Lol at hotels?

[@kierkegardashian]

@@LyssaDiamond I know haha! It normally starts at the check in process 🤣

[@kierkegardashian]

@@RealJustinRoblox She is Chinese and I am Salvadoran and Spaniard 😊😊

[@blakeharvard5841]

Make Human Trafficking Over. Report these cases every time. No exceptions! May the victims become free forever.

[@Rastaferrari829]

Reporting does nothing if people don’t care

[@sidneyboo9704]

Supply and demand. We should really address the demand as well. If there was no demand, there would naturally be no supply.

[@goodiegoodygumdrops]

There will always be a demand for children from pedos. Can't exactly stop that.

[@Tortorbutterfly-s5y]

Wow as a victim of human trafficking those is spot on to my experience and I have a very hard time explaining this stuff to my family

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

Yes, not even your own family can imagine how monster's work.. TODAY IS THE DAY I LEFT MY HUSBAND...NYC TO MIAMI..FELT THE SICK EVIL ON ME WHILE ...I THOUGHT I WAS SAFE IN A HOTEL IN MIAMI BEACH.

[@SL-pg4dh]

@@shellyarnoldwecker9531 What happened to you? How were you trafficked? Who trafficked you?

[@hbarudi]

Inside hotels of all kinds, everyone from CEO down needs to make sure they are able to enforce laws inside hotels. Casinos put millions of cameras just to catch cheaters yet hotels hardly do anything and should put cameras in the hallways to make sure that police and security can catch the slavers and traffickers and put them into justice.

[@ursulasmith6402]

The hotels are part of this.

[@mimi7434]

We were in a Hilton in Evansville In I had went to get extra towels before I turned in for the night. On my way back to my room (which was on the other end of the hotel) I felt like someone was following me. I turned and heard a door gently close. I tried to pick up the pace and I literally heard feet. The guy was walking towards me quickly and I knocked on the first door near me. Thankfully someone was there and called downstairs to tell them what happened. The lady said someone else had made a report about a creepy guy with the same description, but front desk said they don't remember seeing a man with that description. When I asked them if they can look at the cameras they said half the cameras don't even work. After this documentary I wonder if this was also one of those hotels, bc half of our stay we had to take the stairs bc the elevators didn't work. No elevators and no cameras... Makes you think how many people weren't fortunate enough to have someone open their hotel door to a stranger.

[@shakeebchaudhary1573]

Rich clients stay in those hotels for privacy. If hotels will install cameras, they will lose those rich clients.

[@mimi7434]

@@shakeebchaudhary1573 That makes sense when you put it that way. It kind of messed me up, now I'm no longer comfortable at hotels. Air B&Bs are just as shady. Just shows you the times we're living in.

[@DRC91319]

I know rich business men that are married that are with young girls from St.Louis to Las Vegas casinos. Make me sick to think of people like this and nothing ever done because they have money.

[@ellainastorms]

I know someone who was a trafficking victim, who was trafficked the day she turned 18 out of a girl's public home for fosters. It was someone who worked there, and the day she turned 18 they took her.

[@Kneephry]

One of the biggest problems is immigration law. Make legal immigration more widely available and not tied to a specific employer (who can then threaten or coerce the immigrant by threatening to rescind their employment and thus their visa). These changes will make the exploitation of immigrants much less common.

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

Why not just stay home and build up their countries? We have enough poverty and homelessness here.

[@eddycarpenter8989]

​@@KamalasNotLikeUs its easier to just flee and run away, go to the USA and then wave the flag of the country you fled from.

[@minnie3388]

@@KamalasNotLikeUs you say that like america isn’t responsible for the destruction of many countries lol

[@goodmorning2386]

I agree, then workers won’t be as scared to report stuff Since they won’t have to worry about the employer retaliating against them

[@ECUCHRIS904]

@@KamalasNotLikeUs They do sometimes but then all that money goes to the cartel.

[@stebopign]

Hotels are aware that half of their business revolves around people who need to use the rooms for rendezvous. and they are taught to be discreet about it.

[@christinecameron1612]

I used to have a neighbor, and she and her husband lived in an area with a lot of middle eastern families. She told me that the moment they found out she was pregnant with their 2nd child, literally every family they knew was trying to give them a maid, or worse yet, sell them a maid. They immediately moved up to another part of the state, where they became our neighbors. They were living in California when all this went on.

[@AB-ey9dy]

This is so heartbreaking, i'm glad they didn't participate in the exploitation. I've heard so many stories of women from certain African countries moving to Dubai and basically getting sold into slavery immediately, with families overworking them to death.

[@bleepbloop9123]

@@AB-ey9dy It's a very common problem for poor women internationally. Domestic worker laws need to be passed everywhere

[@sabrina1380m]

​@@AB-ey9dy the same for south east Asians

[@fadingfrost2617]

I worked in a few "name -brand" hotels for 10yrs. Primarily, I was at the front desk working nights as an auditor. In addition, I also worked in a few managerial positions. Not once do I recall a situation that I or any of my co-workers were suspicious of trafficking, or similar scenarios occurring and some sort of effort wasn't made to get a better grasp on the dynamics. Following that, I don't know of any such thing having been confirmed in the least, let alone being ignored. Now if we take into account, the area ("Cossroads of America interstate), size of hotel (225rm, full service with bar and live music weekends, plus pool and full banquet facilities). Take all the years there then go to two college-town hotels, just 3 hrs south of Chicago, en route to Indianapolis, with 98% occupancy while I was at these properties for a few years, There was never a single encounter that I saw or ever heard a whisper about in regards to any trafficking . Yet, statically, it's simply not possible that it didn't occur right under our roof. My point is to say, it is at least reasonable to believe that some of the accusations against the hotels could be just as unfounded as those in which employees were very much aware of the situation being dire. It's very common for hotel staff to be equally underestimated as well as overestimated when it come down to it.

[@xitismail]

This take seems completely reasonable to me. I suspect that s lot of the trafficking, while not isolated to specific areas, is definitely more common in certain locations. I suspect there are some hotels it's prevalent in and others not.

[@_celestial_8752]

Plenty of people are clueless nowadays so I definitely believe it

[@pianoman3255]

@@xitismail agreed. I don't see Indiana or Chicago being Hotspot for traffic. The Hotspot are places like Florida, California, Texas and Arizona.

[@thirdborn_sentinel]

I worked at a top hotel in security and there was a big brand name sports company that brought in their own prostitutes [in broad daylight ] to keep their athletes happy. I don't see how any night auditor would be aware of human trafficking when some general managers are paid under the table to 'go with the flow' in corporate dealings. You didn't know? : o !

[@manicpepsicola3431]

@@pianoman3255 I agree I live in Texas in an area with a lot of workers that travel and all of the hotels in my town have signs that say that they have right to refuse service at anytime and right under it they always say no prostitution allowed I've seen that at like ever hotel in my hometown (my town is also a crossroad for travel all across Texas so there is a lot more crime prostitution and drugs in my hometown than most places in Texas due to its location.

[@debrafirestone861]

If these hotel employees see this going on they are an obligation to report it to authorities right away

[@ursulasmith6402]

No, they get a list and also a paper what tells them, not to go to certain rooms. They know, too. Those young people need to stop dealing with strangers.

[@zainalassegaf6720]

I am worried that the authorities are the main perpetrators of human trafficking by mona noorchaalida

[@raaid22]

The Marriott woman sounds like she couldn't care less about this issue.

[@xelefonte]

*Abbe Horswill at* (8:23) *has to be the most dead energy representative that I’ve ever seen. If she’s your PR and human rights lady, you need to make a change. Besides the fact that she sounds like she’s talking with rocks in her mouth, her entire vibe is just depressing. I mean does the lady have polio? What exactly is wrong with her? She looks like somebody who absolutely hates her job so she behaves in a manner that won’t get her fired but also make Marriott look stupid. She operates in that grey area. She’s like the real life version of Eeyore.*

[@DCamp1271]

all of this. I'm like, why did they choose her? nepotism? she only confirmed the worst for me.

[@lotfibouhedjeur]

I hate these videos that miss the point. How about you actually explain HOW the hotels are involved in this?

[@rossana8958]

From a post that I read before COVID of a periodist that was investigating traffic of minors on one of the most popular beaches to vacation for first world tourists, usually a part of politicians and local police are involved to let it pass (if not everyone, hope if only a part), they get their part and hotels is more discret because they primarily get theirs from extra charges like room services or purchases to inside stores. There are others methods for outside of hotels but some of the ones I can remember are disturbing and don't want to explain to some potential customers that can read this comment how to get it if the process is still active after Covid. And when the periodist got close to see how the process to send a minor to a client worked when was solicited in the touristic area was stopped by local police that was monitoring their steps since who knows what point, that said periodist noticed some patrons with minors that felt was off of place they were alone on certain places and got to make some questions about their situation but those were the most perturbed part of the post so I can't remember them well. And no I don't have access anymore to said post because it was posted for a third one on a Facebook group that have years taken down

[@GANGSTAlKINGjamaicanboy]

Facts so one question I want to ask them if a man rent a hotel and he F a girl at 2 afternoons and then at 5 he bring in a next girl after the other leave and then at 9 he sleep with a girl is he a human trafficking I need answer

[@VictoriaConner-cr9rg]

My prayers are with victims and survivors of Human Trafficking.Amen.

[@carwalk1280]

Thank You 🙏🏼 Humans Don't Care About Us & It's Always Our Fault. To The Authorities We're Criminals & Big Time Criminals At That 💯

[@cececurry5287]

I am a survivor of Human Trafficking. I worked out of small motels and major hotel brands. Also with Airbnb where i actually would pay the owner cash and without using the app to avoid having to use a credit card which most of us didnt have.

[@shrimayi213]

@@majesticgee7610 um you know what TRAFFICKING is right??? people dont really sign up for it... i dont think cece curry chose to be trafficked. im fairly certain it was done against their will. nobody chooses to go through trafficking. nobody chooses that lifestyle. its imposed on them

[@PraveenSrJ01]

I feel really sorry for you and am praying for you and hope you are doing better

[@adavis8522]

Can you explain more? Im a bit confused by your comment. Someone forced you to do this?

[@mayar7498]

I think it sounds like you were NOT a victim lol

[@mazyck4238]

This sounds more like prostitution. Most victims don't pay for their own rooms. Can you explain this a bit more

[@MamaTrauma]

When a hotel / motel offers room rentals by the hour it's hard to believe the owners are unaware. Superbowl always attracts the predators into the host city ready to line their pockets.

[@beautybonvoyage8624]

Tourist heavy areas and big events attracts predators. i think the best solution is to start training kids, teens, and parent on a regular basis as to what it is and how to look out. As mentioned in other posts most peopel trafficked don't even know what it is in the first place. Many who DO know, know how to avoid to how to get out of the situation because they know where it will lead. Educating people can make a HUGE difference. Many people, especially MEN need to also realize that a lot of pr0stitutes they pay for are victims even if they don't seem like it.

[@forgotten1s]

Any place w a bed will be used to traffic. Marriot isnt any special

[@organicsoulgumbo]

The Waldorf Astoria has trafficking

[@forgotten1s]

@@organicsoulgumbo all hotel chains have trafficking. My point is that making it out like certain hotels r running a scheme

[@organicsoulgumbo]

@@forgotten1s they all are implicit on one level or another.

[@PijamaSuit]

Marriott and Hilton International supervisors and managers are usually uninterested in the likelihood of human trafficking. They mostly care about "the customer experience" and will leave the customer alone for the sake of having good reviews and reporting everything under their watch was fine. I should know, about 8 years ago, I saw at the front desk an older white man excited to be there, but a trembling tanned child behind him looking around everywhere as if in a panic. When questioning where are his parents, the older man responded for him "i'm with him". The child didn't speak a word. Front desk agent called security discretely, only to have the manager interrupt, finish the transaction and lead the older man to the elevator. Later on I heard the manager scolding about how the hotel doesn't need bad press and he cant go accusing a guest that already responded the question. I interrupted and told them to keep hotel security just roaming on that floor, but that didnt happen.

[@averysbragbook]

We live in a corrupt World

[@roselee4445]

If he was allowed into the room the deed was done and what good is security roaming hall.

[@NevadaLamb]

Watching this while staying at a Marriott hotel! 😂 but not sure why they’re being singled out in the title. If anything the title should be more positive of how Marriott is working to end trafficking at their hotels.

[@atmartens]

I thought the same... are they really trying to say Hilton doesn't have the same issue?

[@michellepassions1]

Lol I'm at a Hilton

[@TomNook.]

yes, that 60mins of training (80 for managers!) is really going to nip this in the bud

[@robotaustin12]

@@atmartens I've worked for hilton for years and it's not like described in video, but id assume neither is marriot. Our quality control to maintain the hilton name is pretty hard. We care way more about the other rooms too much to risk their stay to allow shady prostitution to happen to a room or two. I bet there's a few shady cracks but they're really throwing shade at us workers 🤣

[@uncoverthetruth8365]

Omggggg pleeeeease find another thing to fight

[@TheSimmpleTruth]

Hotels have security cameras. Security employees can monitor who come in and go on a daily basis. They have no excuse.

[@Watchingvideoslikeu]

Why would hotels and hotel staffs be responsible? How would hotel staff members actually know? These aren’t the highest educated people in our society. We need to root out the cause and incentive of trafficking

[@uncoverthetruth8365]

This is what happens when generations become dumbed down

[@heythere9707]

Most hotel desk staff and management are college educated

[@asbknbcab]

Just because you did or didn’t go to college, that doesn’t make you more smart or more stupid. You can go to college and still not have common sense.

[@EA-jg2ye]

@Watchingvideoslikeu You are part of the problem. Many hotel staff are educated from low to high income. You should be ashamed of yourself making that generalisation.

[@Watchingvideoslikeu]

@@EA-jg2ye im part of the problem? not the traffickers?

[@Pineoilheavan]

Under the Marriott umbrella of hotels are Sheraton, W, Westin, the list goes on. I worked at one in The Loop in downtown Chicago. Pretty sure there’s Shenanigans happening from time to time however most GM’s have not a clue what’s going on. For 17 years the particular hotel I worked at went through 5 GM’s. Great place to work though.

[@monanoorch8699]

I have worked in hotels for almost a dozen years. But I still don't understand the human trafficking system. That's why I was surprised and the hotel where I worked was a successful hotel in its time. Maybe because my intention of working is to buy the price of living and living in just 1 day. then I don't understand about human trafficking.

[@RiVer-Parish]

All the managers of these hotels know exactly what is going on they just don't care because of the money they make off the rooms.

[@shawnnewell4541]

My sister is a manager, and she does care and hates it. It is among the reasons she's taking early retirement. She just can't take it anymore. She's put in her 40+ years.

[@RiVer-Parish]

@@shawnnewell4541 No telling what kind of stuff she seen. When they brought up Mardi Gras it's clear as day what taking place its in plain view walking down Bourbon Street.

[@shawnnewell4541]

@River Parish Well, I remember her mentioning a NBA team plastering cheese slices all over the mirrors in one hotel she worked at and at another one, when I was visiting her, someone took 1 500-pound statue of Buddha. They were nice enough to leave the other one. Then there's the lady who opened the window and got mad when insects got into the room.

[@quito787]

It seems this video is unfairly singling out a particular hotel chain in the title. That’s not proper journalism to report on such a serious issue.

[@morenr7983]

Which one

[@abcd-hw8io]

Agree.

[@RC404]

If they required every guest (adult and kid) to provide an id on their way in/ out, installed face cameras by every room door and emergency call buttons in the rooms, it would help prevent a lot of human trafficking.

[@eddiew2325]

hehe hi RC

[@organicsoulgumbo]

It’s called a cell phone

[@RC404]

@@organicsoulgumbo no, it's called a telegraph

[@eddiew2325]

@@RC404 i invented the first telegraph

[@organicsoulgumbo]

@@RC404 if you’re in danger just call the cops 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@shanemooon]

I see Marriott filing a cease and desist or civil libel lawsuit here for this video title. This happens everywhere, not just Marriott. The video even says larger hotel chains are a smaller portion. Yet they choose to click bait by using Marriott in the title.

[@markbajek2541]

they said "like" marriot, not marriot, but if I were Marriot I'd be all over this video..it's certainly defamatory in nature.... They'd probably would have been more accurate by picking any "number" motel or a more budget oriented , or even a mom n pop by the hour location.

[@putnam120]

Are we going to ignore that labor trafficking if more prevalent?

[@nn3277]

I understand in the case of human trafficking but hotels also started harassing single women who check into hotels by themselves. What are we? The Middle East now?

[@milkjamjuice]

Thank you for posting this. I got into a situation a very long time ago that may have been a trafficking ring, but as soon as I saw something shady, I grabbed my passport and ran out the door.

[@beautybonvoyage8624]

Yes, always be careful with your passport and who you hand it to...as well as always keep copies of the info and know where the embassy of your country is when traveling....Good that you got out, whatever the situation may have been.

[@CbusRon]

What’s messed up is that I can’t trust half of what’s in this video just due to the broad terms being used. These news articles today are mostly emotion based and numbers are skewed to say one thing. I know that trafficking is a problem but these news stations tell stories how they want to today not just the full picture truth.

[@craigj.651]

Yep

[@RDXO17]

Strange how we never get a full diagram of how traffickers actually fully navigate Strange how they never explain about the people and children who are taken to be supplied to another person. They dont tell us Why People are going missing etc they only feed us the stories of prostitution or slavery because they can usually pin that on gangs But they dont ask the Rich what they’re being supplied smh

[@multiplefutures8206]

It's a smokescreen. Open borders without checks is causing the influx of trafficking.

[@KingLarbear]

It is kind of like watching someone in your store, are they shop lifting? It would be an awful day to accuse someone of such. Well, it would be an even worse day to have the police go to a room to accuse someone of trafficking another and to find out they wouldn't. You would lose your job or make go to jail. The police are never shy about yelling out who called and making a scene and these brands would fire you in a heart beat.

[@whospilledmybeans]

Hotels have cameras in the hallway. You can tell if someone lied about the people they’re bringing in the room at any point by looking at the cameras. And if hotels really cared, they’d enforce “no visitors” policy

[@tjaspire]

When I was a cashier for a few years, I became aware of when someone was a thief vs. a regular customer. They became easier to spot after a while. You develop a knack for spotting those folks. I suspect that it's the same with hotel staff, but many probably turn a blind eye so as not to seem "judgmental," assuming that the victims are willingly prostituting themselves.

[@beautybonvoyage8624]

Yeah but as you say after a while you can know when someone isn't just engaging in the oldest professional and they seem too young or fearful...Like you say many turn a blind eye. Considering what we've seen form people's behavior over the past few year with political issues, folks are will to let people die to save their jobs and keep their own lives comfy.

[@KarmaSwiss]

So y’all aren’t gunna talk about motel 6, super 8? Marriott is kinda fancy

[@jamiehershon]

that's why this video got it wrong. the ones being trafficked who have pimps are most likely going to places like motel 6, days inn, etc.

[@justrandomthings319]

It's weird. CNBC does this weird thing where they target specific companies they have grudges against. Like Amazon.

[@jamiehershon]

@@justrandomthings319 yup. corporate owned media

[@KarmaSwiss]

@@justrandomthings319 yea I see an Amazon video like every week lmfaooo

[@thatgui88]

​@@jamiehershon Now that I'm getting older it's crazy how corporate companies manipulate the public into hating other Businesses. Just shows the power CC have on the population, good and bad.

[@garretthagan3990]

The probably 6 Marriott’s I’ve stayed at, 2/3 of them didn’t have working locks which was found out a couple days after checking in. Love that

[@martinc.720]

"force them to do something they may or may not want to do" - Well, if they wanted to do it, then no one would have to force them.

[@goodmorning2386]

ikr, like duh Obviously they’re being forced

[@camdenward1931]

You can enact any bill you'd like. But the DA and paw enforcement in these areas are not prosecuting. And or adhering to laws when the complaints are made. So someone needs to ensure when presented with these complaints they are prosecuted from the officer who takes the complaints,the DA who prosecutes and the judges who gives the sentences. And who's going to audit these complaints and see how far they've gone, and if not prosecuted WHY?

[@strykerthepsycher8412]

How the hell do these traffickers find Johns? This is what gets me about the whole thing? How can it go on under people's noses. How can so many John's hear about it before somebody who would report them to the authorities?

[@AlexisMaria]

the johns d0nt care they most likely hire low caliber clientele who yes may have $ but no moral values. alot of em dont care and or the women are scared into playing nice to not spark up suspicion

[@strykerthepsycher8412]

@@AlexisMaria Yes but how the hell do the Johns hear about it before you and me. There are so many more people who would report it the authorities than would not. So how the hell do these johns get to them before you and I?

[@Charlie-zj3hw]

Simple legalize prostitution

[@vylbird8014]

A practical solution, but politically not feasable right now. It'll be a long time before a politician can win more votes then they lose by promising that.

[@Goldzwiebel]

that doesn't change anything. on the contrary: when the prostitutes live in brothels, they often pay high rents and the competition is just one door away. prices are getting lower and need to do more for the money. Forced prostitutes are noticed even less frequently by customers because they hope the brothel operators will take care of it. moreover, the women are trapped in a world where everyone has this job. they think it's normal because they meet so many who do it too.

[@vylbird8014]

@@Goldzwiebel Out with the old oppression, in with the new. Now they can join the ranks of the wage slaves on zero-hour contracts.

[@avirei98]

I work at a hotel and it's so easy to spot when somebody is in a traffic situation for the most part but most of the people coming through the hotel are prostitutes or people coming to spend time with prostitutes. But even those people are really obvious to point out either because of the way that addressed or they try to not look suspicious and they just look suspicious. Only a few times have I had to turn people who weren't 18 yet away because the person in the car refused to come in. We can ask the girls if they are okay and need any help but if they don't say yes there's nothing else we can do past that.(outside of calling the police but I mean if the guy sees me staring out the window it has car to see what it looks like it becomes pretty obviously we figured out who he was so that could also make things worse) I have asked a few ladies if they needed help and all of them always say no and we can't do anything if they don't need help because we don't know their situation with some of these people I swear I've seen a couple of pimps. The pandemic made it worse our entire clientele has changed after the pandemic started 😐 But we do have a few policies in place to deter you can't check in if you're under 21 We don't take cash or online banking cards and absolutely cannot check in without an ID. We collect all the information on your ID so they try to keep them away but some of them are pretty smart about the way they move. But even if the front desk is aware that something isn't right we can't we are liable for too much so we can't make assumptions we can't accuse anybody of anything we have to have solid evidence before we even think of calling the police because that could be a lawsuit for the company I would rather say the girl but that's also my job on the line so the only thing we can do is just ask them if they need help and they have to ask for it.

[@axelfoley1812]

True

[@PraveenSrJ01]

That is just sickening and really needs to be stopped immediately!! Someone needs to break the walls of the hotels 🏨 and arrest these sick people who commit human trafficking!

[@toxikspeaks3523]

worked at a marriot and i remeber them training us to keep an eye out for this and to report it. What are some of the common warning signs etc edit: I worked in the kitchen

[@noladre]

Thanks to all involved on shearing light on this subject!

[@pavillionxp]

Those human trafficking law doesn't work because it protects the well-connected hotel firms, discriminating the others. Essentially, those laws help the well connected remove competition. Human trafficking is a very very lucrative business, and people will go great lengths to capitalize the market share.

[@Paineinyourblank]

Dont slander Marriott. Marriott policy is to get a credit card and ID for each stay. Any guest can pay cash at checkout but not upon arrival. credit card are authorized for room and tax at arrival. If an employee is not doing this they should be fired.

[@KingLarbear]

Yeah I was a PBX-hotel operator and front desk associate and we turned away people all of the time

[@OneEyedOneHornedGian]

I bet if it were legalized we would see much less trafficing. We would decrease the profit per person and women could leave prostitution much easier. (With it currently being criminalized we can end up turning people into criminals who are trying to escape a bad situation. )

[@goodmorning2386]

honestly, I agree with you If prostitution were legal then they would also be protected under worker laws, and wouldn’t have to worry about getting in trouble with cops so they could go to the police and report abuse and stuff I also agree it would decrease trafficking, since there would be less demand and that women would be able to leave easier

[@goodiegoodygumdrops]

Nah. Because the criminals could find ways around the "system" for prostituting children

[@blanco-sanchez450]

I’m not sure about that. Several years ago I would have agreed with you but just look at Amsterdam; it’s legal and yet they still have a huge problem with forced prostitution. It’s the nature of the work, it thrives on novelty and there simply isn’t enough supply to meet the demand

[@OneEyedOneHornedGian]

@@blanco-sanchez450 there is a huge supply demand challenge there for sure. It's one of the few places in where drugs and prostitution are as free as they are which drives up tourism/demand concentration in a small concentrated area. I'll agree I don't want to see anyone forced into prostitution (or anything they don't want to do) but there is a huge difference between slavery and opportunity that many people don't seem to understand. (I'm not saying you're one just trying to make sure we're on the same page) there are a lot of female immigrants in prostitution from poorer parts of the world in Amsterdam. I won't say they are all there because they want to be because I don't know their situations specifically. But if they were to sell their services in their homes they would receive much less pay than they can get in Amsterdam. They are also much more likely to approach a police officer, have security available or some other assistance to help them if something bad were to happen to them. Prostitutes in Amsterdam are also more likely to have recordings so they can build a better case whereas in other nations they would be afraid to record their illegal activities. (My knowledge about Amsterdam's prostitution is limited so I had to read an article before responding. time.com/5712420/amsterdam-red-light-district-change/ )

[@goodiegoodygumdrops]

@@blanco-sanchez450 Exactly!!

[@crosses101]

At the end of the video and I'm still waiting on a clear definition of "Human trafficking" and a strategy that its results can be measured and not left up to the obscurity of ambiguity. Also, any measures taken cannot violate an individual's privacy or freedom. Basically this sounds like an industry being formed by extortion hotel chains in the name of empathy.

[@muirgirl]

lol work on your ability to listen and focus then, bud.. they defined it within the first five minutes..

[@crosses101]

@@muirgirl Which is?

[@muirgirl]

@@crosses101 lol dude you cant be helped

[@crosses101]

@@muirgirl indeed.

[@crosses101]

@@SpicyOatmilk Well by that definition, aren't we all in some way forced to do labor in exchange for money?

[@Nardo_stpierre]

I don’t know if I’m just ignorant or what but I have worked for hyatt for 3 years and never noticed anything sketchy

[@JohnBowl14690]

Exactly. It's not like the prostitutes wear a sign on their back.

[@ryankelly8077]

As someone that wanted to be an I/O psychologist & now pursuing med school - I call BULL SH*T on Marriot’s part… if Marriott wanted to make a “substantial investment” in negating this issue, they’d hire 100’s of i/o & PsyD psychologist’s globally - on a full time basis - to come in and negate this issue… but instead, let’s just mandate “training” to our non-qualified staff on this issue

[@charliecounts2794]

Or the US government could legalize prostitution

[@michaellim4165]

Job security?

[@ryankelly8077]

@@michaellim4165 - what about job security?

[@CanadianMonarchist]

Then when Marriot jacked up the price of the rooms to pay for them, nobody would come to stay with them anymore.

[@crime_wavez]

so Marriott should be shut down just like craigslist casual encounters section was shut down, right? we all know this won't happen.

[@monanoorchaalida4462]

?

[@jasonmitchellmitchell3192]

If I Allowed a "minor" to drink I go to jail . People at hotels are to be equality responsible .

[@myyoutubeaccount8494]

There's no difference between human trafficking and prostitution.

[@09impala]

Glad someone is smart enough

[@cc1k435]

I once saw a notice at the front desk of what to do if you were being trafficked or noticed other guests you had suspicions about. I think about that every time I travel now.

[@alexandriabowser6105]

Ok. So I used to live in and out of hotels, as a poor single mother. I've stayed in all types of hotels and motels. From Marriot, to motel 6 and everything in between. I'm pretty sure I've stayed at every brand of hotel in the US. I promise you. Every single one has a trafficking issue. Not just Marriot. Every single one does. What I also know, is that while hotels should be responsible for sounding the alarm on blatant signs of trafficking. There is absolutely no way for the front desk to measure who is going to do something nefarious to who is innocently trying to rest their head for a couple of days. If you want to focus on the worst hotels for human and drug trafficking, understand the absolute worst ones are Red Roof and Motel 6. When I stayed at Red Roof, they used to have a system, of leaving their doors cracked. The men would just know which rooms to go into by the propped doors. I could go on for hours. But just know, when your at a hotel or motel, there is without a doubt some form of illegal activity going on.

[@whooptydoo5940]

how could you possibly know how much income it generates? It's not like the traffickers do yearly tax returns or am I missing something?

[@kbbbb7]

I'm not sure "60 minutes of training" is a "huge" investment. Where's the retraining on new techniques traffickers are using? It's disingenuous to say that it's a "huge" investment because as a % of the money the hotel makes off its workers, it's a pittance.

[@sageakporherhe783]

How the hell do you throw in prostitution and human trafficking in the same boat? 🤷🏾‍♂️ One is forced, the other is a means to make money, by the individual.

[@wayneanderson8034]

They are disguising their true intentions with that language. The people being trafficked are illegal immigrants, but we can't say THAT can we? And they owe a debt to the cartels for getting themselves in to the USA, that's another thing we can't talk about, the cartels profiting from & facilitating illegal immigration. But they can talk about people, especially women & girls, prostitution against their will, because nobody can be against stopping that. They just can't say illegal immigration is a bad thing even when it is.

[@calisongbird]

Are you serious???? How naive can you be?? An overwhelming majority of prostitutes are victims of human trafficking. Look it up.

[@superklizzard3195]

Many are forced. In Atlanta I knew a girl who worked getting people out of prostitution and their stories were shocking. They literally had a safe house the ladies would be taken to to hide. Sure they werent kidnapped at gunpoint, but they were held by various other means.

[@amberjohnson7406]

There's so much human trafficking out here in Tucson but I never hear or see anything happen. We have all these same hotels here in such a small town. I've worked in these environments in the bars and witnessed it before in the hotels. The police here don't care. I wish someone would investigate Tucson. Thank you for your video

[@bkeen7013]

I was a manager of a convenience store back in the late 80s/early 90s that was located across the street from a boutique hotel in NY. I used to work that job during the evening when I was going to college during the day. Anyway, I used to see mostly black men (Africans) and guys mostly from the DR or other Latin nations who would escort the girls into the hotel. They, or some of those girls, would come into the store to get drinks, snacks, condoms, hand lotion, tissues, etc. and we all knew what was going on. They rotated the girls every few weeks or so, presumably moving them to other hotels in and around NYC. Some of the girls were genuinely beautiful (although certainly not all) and they'd sometimes provide small talk while in the store, but would never come right out and ask for help, so I assumed they were agreeable to the situation they were in. I think I would handle things differently today and report this to LE...or at least I hope I would.

[@mayataylor5743]

I went to Vegas for the Mayweather fight and went to visit a friend in his room and the staff discriminated against me based on how I look. My friend had to come down for them to let me in they made a copy of my ID . While other could go up by just saying the room number . I not big fan of hotel workers being able to Judge you based on your appearance and potentially deny you access to the hotel.

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

Many strip hotels have long required keys to ride elevator. You should have arranged to meet your friend before going up to the room together. This method should be able to bypass staff intervention.

[@bettanies5864]

Hey :) Have you considered you think that this freedom of the hotel staffs/general public to descriminate based on even just how one looks is a powerful factor that could prevent human trafficking/crimes? I'm sorry this happened to you and can appreciate your stance.

[@nleem3361]

They should have been consistent. Just because they don't find someone attractive, doesn't mean there isn't someone willing to pay for "time" with them. So, because you're attractive, if you'd been trafficked, this might have saved you, while your friend would have remained in bondage, and you're upset they did this "to" you? Your friend should be the one upset that she wasn't protected.

[@nleem3361]

I'd want to know what they did with your info? Was this really for your protection or something else? Did you ask?

[@occultninja4]

@@bettanies5864 Not quite a fan of this take. This sort of thing just opens up the door for more systemic descriminstion and issues. Like, apply this same to policing and you'll very easily see the problem. 1, you just can't trust human beings (or algorithms) with making these kinds of judgements. 2, people can and will use this as a smokescreen for real descriminstory practices. 3, it's still demeaning, especially when, as the person said, it's not being consistently applied to everyone. It ends up alienating people and making them feel unwelcome or unequal. Basically, I get the sentiment, but this holds the potential to do more damage than it prevents, or trade 1 set of issues for the same exact issues in a different form. This isn't the best, or only solution.

[@MrBakedDaily]

What's crazy is the homeless outside the hotel that's the real story

[@johnstudio55]

I’ve been working as a housekeeper at Marriott since April and never heard of any of this training

[@studsauce7803]

So strange the things you didn’t know really existed. I’ve grown up in such a bubble I didn’t know this stuff was this big. Very sad for these people.

[@larissinhaa5235]

this sort of thing has been going on for a long time and in hotels all over the world. and girls are recruited through the internet, many are kidnapped from the streets for sexual purposes or for organ trafficking, many politicians, celebrities are involved. they often have support even from airports

[@robertstewardson8251]

This is a puff piece for Marriot masquerading as an exposé. sixty minutes of watching a video is not going to stop a hotel manager from getting their cut if they are already on the take. Without a watchdog in place, this will continue to be a problem. And naming all the easier hotels first, just gives the traffickers the idea to shy away from Marriot. Which only solves the problem for Marriot, not the victims.

[@GrandmaBev64]

Make it Legal to Work, No Matter Where You Came From! Most of the People involved are doing it Willingly! They can't get money any other way!

[@diouranke]

Not the case with trafficking

[@randytheram1]

Give someone a criminal record hard to find a job.

[@plantman8615]

If training is done by giving employees a video to watch at home, then this would probably not be effective. A lot of people are going to skip through it. So, does this really even help? I feel like it would be so much better to make it mandatory while at work. If most companies are doing it in person, great.

[@toddkes5890]

It lets the hotel dump all responsibility on its employees by saying the employees didn't follow the training provided

[@graciekiracofe]

I can't speak for all hotels but we are very careful with identifying suspicious activity and watching cameras. If someone sneaks in a bunch of women or is doing any thing sketchy we would call the police. Asking to pay in cash is a major red flag. I've never had any issues with it thankfully.

[@ivanpineda9551]

Training and legislation are meant to help decrease cases of human trafficking. It is impossible to simply eliminate the crime, but if people at least are aware, it helps to save some people. Training does not suppose to teach morals to people; it provides guidelines. It depends on how much effort the person puts into learning or taking the training seriously. I can tell from experience I have to take online work training at home. Sometimes I rush the training because I want to be done with it.

[@janedoe6071]

BECAUSE THEY ARE PART OF IT WHY DOES NOBODY SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS!! These people MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND NOBODY WILL STOP THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO MUCH MONEY!

[@mellem4653]

The hospitality industry thrives on trafficking and illegal immigration, especially the lower end motels and hotels. Their desire for profits by way of guests, not having to spend on compliance, desire for cheap labor, all enable this. A lot of non-management cadre workers in the hospitality industry were/are illegal who later became legal. When such people flood the U.S., small motels, AirBnBs, small businesses want to extract as much as they can from these folks by making them work long hours, in sweat shop like conditions, and paying below minimum wage. I used to work at a major hotel chain in Finance and noticed them making donations to churches and pro-immigration lobbying groups and it made me wonder why they care so much. I looked at the backgrounds, work life and pay of most of the hotel workers such as housekeepers, waiters, bussers, front desk, concierge etc. and realized why. All the glitter and the glamour at the top of the pyramid is essentially propped up by people who work like slaves and people who enable that.

[@shellyarnoldwecker9531]

Yup, that's exactly right...God Bless You and All who fight like this with a purpose.....

[@valentina-blossom]

What an insightful comment. Thank you for sharing.

[@ultimate80sguy7]

While it is true that the majority of trafficking victims may be lured in by someone they know, there are also victims that are trafficked thru kidnapping. You say it downplays the truth to perpetuate the kidnapping aspect on social media, but it's also highly irresponsible and dangerous to imply it doesn't happen, even if it isn't as common with adult victims. This causes a false sense of security that could lead to people not paying enough attention to their surroundings either for themselves or for their children, since it is safe to say nearly 100% of trafficked children is the result of kidnapping. I say nearly because there are cases of parents selling their children to traffickers.

[@GrandmaBev64]

Truck Stops Too! They are Directly Connected!

[@monanoorch8699]

?

[@monanoorchaalida4462]

i know but not eazy

[@Hi-Felicia]

New World Hotel turned a blind eye. They are located in China town(downtown NYC). I ran out of that place when I saw the back door at the stairwell open so that Johns could come up. The front desk staff shrug his shoulders and I never got my money back. I reported it to police that I found as I walked away and they told me that I shouldnt be down there by myself. It was my first time in NYC so ai didnt know. As I walked away, there were men honking at me trying to see if I needed a ride away. The police offered to drive me back to the airport to get a room around there. So scary.

[@ggraves55]

At 6:15 "There isn't any data to support an influx of human trafficking during large events." Thank you for clearing up a some of the misconceptions and hoaxes.

[@torijones5194]

I would think maybe more victims are being brought to an area. Like if there's an event in Austin, pimps in Houston may take the 2 hour drive with the hope of getting more John's because of all the visitors. But the victim was definitely being trafficked before the event and they'll be trafficked after.

[@rubenlopez6352]

Why it is called trafficking instead of slavery?. Slavery is closer to what happen to those humans and have a stronger tone to solve it

[@TheYah00netstar]

*How about the guests staying in these hotels who contract such a service through the internet?*

[@asm-6547]

This is too important of a topic to have the narrator pronounce things wrong. “La quinta” and “asked”. Come on cnbc. You should have better quality than that

[@michaelmorris2839]

My favorite pronunciation was "Ma-nipple-ate" at 6:41 lol. I can't get over how bad this narrator is. I can't even listen to the story without cringing.

[@matthewadun7104]

The oldest trade known to mankind will and would find footing anywhere and everywhere. The government at every level can do so much but not everything. Good moral instructions begin in homes to curtail self-destruction.

[@rosiegarza2698]

Okay!!