Human rights
“Tourism is people´s business” – this wisdom holds true since the emerge of travel and tourism. It is not only true for guests – but includes all the people all over the world, who ensure, that travellers get safely from A to B, provide good food and arrange interesting excursions. Tourism constantly breaches their dignity and rights. Either by exploitative working conditions, eviction for hotel buildings and airports or by limiting their access to resources like water. Until today, children are sexually abused in the context of tourism. Strengthening human rights in tourism, therefore, stands in the centre of our work.
Conference-Documentation: Child Rights and Tourism
Representatives from public and private sector as well as NGOs met in Berlin on June, 13 to discuss strategies to strengthen child protection in tourism. (Only in German)
Peru: Child Protection in Informal Accomodations
The restart of tourism raises concerns about the effects on children, because the tourism sector is rapidly expanding and – to some degree – in new unregulated forms.
Vietnam: Connecting Child Protection and Sustainability
The pandemic has increased the vulnerability of children in Vietnam. High time for the tourism industry to include the protection of children in their agenda.
Advancing Child Protection in Tourism
Covid-19 derailed momentum in the protection of children from sexual exploitation, but the restart in tourism also offers opportunities.
Travel Trend Workation
More and more people are combining work with vacation – and go on "workation." But digital nomads are a relevant group among traveling sex offenders.
Protecting Children during Project Visits
Many children are involved in tourist attractions and suffer the consequences. Three examples show how the protection of children can also succeed in project visits.
Online seminar: Child protection during tourism project visits
The webinar "Tourism for Good? Respecting Child Rights in Project Visits" by the Roundtable Human Rights in Tourism, held in May 2022, was targeted at tourism businesses and other stakeholders offering project visits where tourists come into contact with children during their travels. The …
Latin America: Female Entrepreneurship in Tourism
Three women from Brazil and El Salvador report on the ups and downs of their entrepreneurship.
India: On The Way Up
Trekking guides in India are usually male. But that can change, as this year’s TODO Award winner Himalayan Ecotourism shows.
Panel Discussion at ITB Convention 2022
Companies should not benefit from the vulnerability of people in the informal economy but act with due diligence to fulfil their responsibilities to respect human rights.