Darker still: Present-day slavery in hospitality and tourism services

Robinson, Robinson

doi:10.1386/hosp.3.2.93_1

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“…For example, Bales (, p. 15) states slaves were once “expensive, capital purchases” with an average price of “US$40,000 in today's money.” Today, however, human beings can be purchased for as little as US$100. The growth of modern slavery is also aided by formal and informal trafficking networks moving people between and within countries (Crane, ; Robinson, ). When combined with the illicit nature of slavery in general, obtaining accurate statistics in relation to the practice is plagued with difficulty (Barrientos, ; Gold et al, ).…”

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Current perceptions on the problem of modern slavery in business

Christ

Burritt

2018

Bus Strat Dev

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Australia is one of the latest countries to consider introduction of a Modern Slavery Act. An Inquiry by the Parliament of Australia has received nearly 200 submissions from a range of interested stakeholders. This paper classifies and then synthesizes the perceptions of these groups on the role of Australian business in addressing modern slavery issues raised by the Inquiry. Modern slavery in Australian business is seen to be a small tip of a large iceberg hidden in global supply chains. Although the vast majority support introduction of an Act in Australia issues arising include an ongoing lack of transparency for consumers, the relative powerlessness of domestic unions to engage, tensions between national and international standard setting for reporting, and how to engage all businesses not just multinational companies. A set of future research questions arising are developed in the hope of stimulating reduction in the insidious practices of modern slavery.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Current perceptions on the problem of modern slavery in business

Christ

Burritt

2018

Bus Strat Dev

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“…Critically, it is argued that little has changed in the narrative about this topic over the past 25 years (see for example, Cobble, 1991;Glenn, 1992 for assessments of historical perspectives on service work; also Baum 2007;2015;Bal and de Jong, 2017). In part, this has moved forward with some recognition of the Much tourism employment includes work which is poorly paid, and lacking in social respect and value (see, for example, Robinson, 2013;De Beer et al, 2014); hostile to workplace organisation (Bergene et al, 2015); or is located in an environment where employer practice flies in the face of both legal and ethical standards and expectations (Poulston, 2008;The Guardian, 2016). It is also widely described as 'low skills' (see Shaw and Williams, 1994;Wood, 1997;Westwood, 2002;Ladkin, 2011 among others) although this is challenged as western-centric by other authors (Baum, 1996(Baum, , 2002(Baum, , 2006Burns, 1997;Nickson et al, 2003).…”

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Sustainable human resource management as a driver in tourism policy and planning: a serious sin of omission?

Baum

2018

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper focuses on the neglect of an employment or workforce focus in policy engagement and planning for sustainable tourism. Tourism is of interest here because there is an established role for government and the private sector in policy engagement and strategic planning with respect to product development, infrastructure, marketing and human resource capacity and the focus has increasingly emphasized sustainable goals within this process. The discussion addresses the central role of people and work within concepts of sustainability and sustainable communities and questions why this has been, substantially, ignored in tourism. The paper starts by recognising the interconnectedness of employment in tourism and its workforce concerns with a wide range of inter-linked policy and operational considerations. This, in turn, points to the utility of the sustainable HRM model as a means by which to frame tourism work. Thereafter, this paper introduces new approaches through the proposal of sustainability indicators that have both theoretical and practical policy formation value in relation to the workforce. These Sustainable Employment Capacity (SEC), Service Delivery Capacity (SDC) and Service Quality Capacity (SQC) with which policymakers can gauge their readiness for sustainable growth in tourism employment. The research and application implications for this approach are discussed.

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“…As previously reported, the hotel sector has been identified as particularly vulnerable to THB (Annison, 2013;Armstrong, 2016;Robinson, 2013;Tuppen, 2013). In identifying legislative gaps that influence CSE, Smith (2010-2011) highlighted the relevance of the macroenvironment and argued the hotel sector is a facilitator of this crime.…”

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“…Hotels in particular provide a venue for traffickers to sexually exploit victims although evidence suggests that they are also used for labour exploitation (Annison, 2013;Armstrong, 2016;Robinson, 2013;Tuppen, 2013 (Rice, 2014), high profile cases of trafficking in global hotel chains in the UK, US and China (BBC, 2010;ECPAT International, 2011;Bhandari, 2010), demonstrate the sector remains vulnerable to this crime. Statistics published by the US National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH, 2016) reveal 10.5% of sexual exploitation cases reported involved hotels, making this sector only less popular than commercial brothels.…”

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Human trafficking in hotels: an “invisible” threat for a vulnerable industry

Paraskevas

Brookes

2018

IJCHM

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To identify and analyse the hotel sector's vulnerabilities that human traffickers exploit in order to use hotels as conduits for trafficking in human beings (THB). Design/methodology/approach: Using the MAVUS framework of sector vulnerability analysis, the study adopted a qualitative approach employing environmental scanning and semi-structured key stakeholder interviews in three European countries: UK, Finland and Romania. Findings: The study identifies the types of THB occurring within the industry and the specific macro-, meso-and micro-level factors that increase hotel vulnerability to trafficking for sexual exploitation, labour exploitation or both. Research limitations/implications: Given the sensitivity of the topic the number of interviewees is limited as is the generalisability of the findings. Practical implications: The framework developed serves as a practical tool for independent or chain-affiliated hotels to use to assess their vulnerability to human trafficking for both sexual and labour exploitation. Social implications: The framework will assist hotel professionals to assess their vulnerability to human trafficking and identify specific and proactive measures to combat this crime within their business. Originality/value: This is the first study to empirically explore human trafficking in the hotel sector and to apply an integrated theoretical lens to examine macro-, meso-and micro-level sector vulnerabilities to a crime. It contributes to our understanding of why hotels are vulnerable to human trafficking for both sexual and labour exploitation.

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Darker still: Present-day slavery in hospitality and tourism services

Cited by 32 publications

References 16 publications

Current perceptions on the problem of modern slavery in business

Current perceptions on the problem of modern slavery in business

Sustainable human resource management as a driver in tourism policy and planning: a serious sin of omission?

Human trafficking in hotels: an “invisible” threat for a vulnerable industry

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