Hotel chain boosting staff training to fight child prostitution [USA]
Hotel operator Wyndham Worldwide will improve its staff training and procedures after authorities cracked down on gang-led child prostitution rings in California hotels…Wyndham is expanding its…efforts to fight child sex trafficking by reviewing its operating practices in partnership with…ECPAT-USA (Ending Child Prostitution and Trafficking)…California authorities…completed an…investigation into allegations that three…gangs collaborated to prostitute girls and women out of California hotels through Internet-arranged meetings. The investigation resulted in a…federal indictment of 38 people, including…the owners of a Wyndham-franchised Travelodge...The Polaris Project is a…group combating human trafficking, and Wyndham has given hotel accommodations…to victims of human trafficking…Wyndham has also become a member of the Code for the Protection of Children in Travel and Tourism, an industry initiative combating child sex abuse…