Why Hotels Like Marriott Have A Human Trafficking Problem
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- Human trafficking generates about $150 billion a year globally in illegal profits. Hotels and motels are a common venue for sex trafficking due to ease of access for buyers, ability to pay in cash and maintain secrecy through finances, and lack of facility maintenance. What are the major hotel chains doing to curb human trafficking on their properties?
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Why Hotels Like Marriott Have A Human Trafficking Problem
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!
Omg ❤
Omg indeed... I hope you feel safer now. Thank you for leaving the comment.
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.
What was the hotel?
Where were your parents and family? Was this trafficker a ex bf? I wonder how women end up in places like this sometimes.
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
Marriott, Hilton, and holiday inn all involved in it
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.
@@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”?
Yes, we marriott are committed to this issue seriously. Its emphasised in our premises over and over again.
@@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
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.
Good for you
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.
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!
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 )
EXACTLY SOME BE LIKE BROTHELS ALSO IN LA
Well when ppl get paid a very low wage and long hours staff don't care
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.
As a woman that travels alone often… man I’m tired of always being on alert
What a world we live in
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.
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
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.
It’s a carefully scripted speech what did you expect
Girl reminds me of my alarm clock
Dude the hotel I work for has empathy as a Core value AND they exploit ppl. That means nothin
Yeah, I'm sure no one could tell you anything you'd believe, except a CZcams 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.
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.
Pay Jake Tran😉
Pay attention and ask yourself why someone is asking you particular questions.
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
Avoid becoming a victim is not asking and going with strangers.
Sounds like you are looking for a “how to manual”
Don’t like how prostitution and actual “human trafficking” are thrown together. The two are very different.
Danm right 💯
Yes
Facts but that will go over many heads and if’s obvious why.
Yep and the difference would be consent vs coercion.
Bull
Most prostitution survivors have experienced trafficking.
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.
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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!?
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
Ah yes, lets go after the people who are just trying to work. Let’s ignore the corrupt management and the actual human traffickers.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
Not true no undocumented workers where I have worked.
slavery never die it just change name and business module
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
Yup. Like the music industry
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.
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.
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.
Damn didn’t know the second one. Same thing with gas stations?
That's very disturbing. I haven't heard of it here in Europe but who knows...
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.
los algodones mexico too ?
I have worked in several hotels (Marriott, Hilton, Hampton, Staybridge and Wyndham)and never had training on trafficking.
I had it with Marriott and Hilton. They have computer training on it that front desk and housekeeping have to complete.
"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.
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.
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.
I live there :| that explains all the human trafficking signs I constantly see, warning about it and giving numbers to call.
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!
What about Airbnb with a fully automatic check in ? Airbnb should also be made accountable.
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.
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.
@@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?
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.
I work in a hotel, we also had to take training. Also for active shooters, that was fun
@@stick2dascript845 Haha I'm in south Florida too and your very wrong. Trafficking in and around Miami is huge
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.
What are the budget type hotels doing to prevent trafficking? They are the type of hotels that have a higher number of these cases.
yeah i'm kind of amazed at that too. the ones with pimps and all that are typically going to the cheap, roadside motels.
Right that's their main source of revenue
Not a dayum thang!!
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.
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
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.
@@shellyarnoldwecker9531 What happened to you? How were you trafficked? Who trafficked you?
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 🤣
Lmaoo Suspicious activity 🤣🤣🤣
That’s such a cool mix, what type of Hispanic are you and Asian are you guys? Really unique.
Omg! Lol at hotels?
@@LyssaDiamond I know haha! It normally starts at the check in process 🤣
@@RealJustinRoblox She is Chinese and I am Salvadoran and Spaniard 😊😊
Im against human trafficking I work in a hotel by Marriott and I'm always watching for stuff like this
My question is whether additional trainings and legislation have led to an increase in apprehensions and convictions instead of just reports. Getting traffickers off the streets is the goal, and if none of this new action is producing a discernible decrease in trafficking across the US, than additional steps would need to be taken to address the problem.
Similarly, I wonder about the role of rental firms like AirBnB and VRBO in the human trafficking problem. It seems to me that short term rentals, where every property has a different owner, less security, and little interaction between guests and hosts, could form an environment that was more conducive to trafficking than traditional hotels.
The GOAL is to get all. Criminals off the streets and keep the system structure
Increased reporting leads to increased arrests
Would have been a lot more reassuring to hear Ms HR manager to say “the training is leading to arrests” instead of how much money they are spending on training
The short term rental situation is something to think about. Most STR owners are not local to their properties and rely on property management companies to do the work. Do those companies have any training? What about the cleaning companies that are used to clean the properties? In the rarer case an individual is both owning and managing the short term rental, what training and education is available to them? Is it easy to find, and affordable? If it’s a class, does it have flexible timings? Those people who both own and manage probably only have one or two properties, which is not necessarily enough to replace a time-for-money job, so they may be very busy doing both a regular job and their side hustle, leaving limited time for other things.
I’m rambling on a bit, bottom line, is there training available for property investors and the property management companies they use?
The lawsuits should bring the owners down to their knees. Having dozens or hundreds of lawsuits is a bad thing.
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.
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.
Plenty of people are clueless nowadays so I definitely believe it
@@xitismail agreed. I don't see Indiana or Chicago being Hotspot for traffic. The Hotspot are places like Florida, California, Texas and Arizona.
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 !
@@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.
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.
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.
@@AB-ey9dy It's a very common problem for poor women internationally. Domestic worker laws need to be passed everywhere
Make Human Trafficking Over. Report these cases every time. No exceptions! May the victims become free forever.
Reporting does nothing if people don’t care
Supply and demand. We should really address the demand as well. If there was no demand, there would naturally be no supply.
There will always be a demand for children from pedos. Can't exactly stop that.
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.
I thought the same... are they really trying to say Hilton doesn't have the same issue?
Lol I'm at a Hilton
yes, that 60mins of training (80 for managers!) is really going to nip this in the bud
@@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 🤣
Omggggg pleeeeease find another thing to fight
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.
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.
The hotels are part of this.
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.
Rich clients stay in those hotels for privacy. If hotels will install cameras, they will lose those rich clients.
@@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.
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.
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.
We live in a corrupt World
If he was allowed into the room the deed was done and what good is security roaming hall.
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.
If these hotel employees see this going on they are an obligation to report it to authorities right away
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.
I am worried that the authorities are the main perpetrators of human trafficking by mona noorchaalida
The Marriott woman sounds like she couldn't care less about this issue.
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.
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.
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.
Why not just stay home and build up their countries? We have enough poverty and homelessness here.
@@VoltairesRevenge its easier to just flee and run away, go to the USA and then wave the flag of the country you fled from.
@@VoltairesRevenge a lot of those countries are a lost cause for a real life.
@@VoltairesRevenge you say that like america isn’t responsible for the destruction of many countries lol
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
Thanks to all involved on shearing light on this subject!
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?
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.
@@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
I feel really sorry for you and am praying for you and hope you are doing better
Can you explain more? Im a bit confused by your comment. Someone forced you to do this?
I think it sounds like you were NOT a victim lol
This sounds more like prostitution. Most victims don't pay for their own rooms. Can you explain this a bit more
I hate these videos that miss the point. How about you actually explain HOW the hotels are involved in this?
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hotels have security cameras. Security employees can monitor who come in and go on a daily basis. They have no excuse.
Lol target hotels, but not the pimps 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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.
Yep
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
It's a smokescreen. Open borders without checks is causing the influx of trafficking.
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
This is what happens when generations become dumbed down
Most hotel desk staff and management are college educated
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.
@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.
@@EA-jg2ye im part of the problem? not the traffickers?
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.
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.
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!
There's no difference between human trafficking and prostitution.
Glad someone is smart enough
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
*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.*
all of this. I'm like, why did they choose her? nepotism? she only confirmed the worst for me.
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.
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.
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.
True
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
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?
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.
Which one
Agree.
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.
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
Are we going to ignore that labor trafficking if more prevalent?
If I Allowed a "minor" to drink I go to jail . People at hotels are to be equality responsible .
So y’all aren’t gunna talk about motel 6, super 8? Marriott is kinda fancy
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.
It's weird. CNBC does this weird thing where they target specific companies they have grudges against. Like Amazon.
@@justrandomthings319 yup. corporate owned media
@@justrandomthings319 yea I see an Amazon video like every week lmfaooo
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?
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
@@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?
PUT UP A BIG SIGN IN EVERY HOTEL, MOTEL EVERYWHERE SAYING:
If You Are Here Against Your Will PLEASE DO NOT BE Silent About It.
WRITE it in EVERY Language!
Also...Periodically announce it on speakers throughout the building.
If I were a hotel operator what I'd probably do is have a policy
(if I can afford extra workers)
Whenever more than one person comes in for a stay I would have someone speak to each person separately in a little interview
area. (Honest people always have to be inconvenience because of dishonest people).
Is ID a requirement for everyone/guests? AND ASK IF PERSON is THERE AGAINST THEIR OWN WILL. If its a minor...my first question would be WHO ARE YOU HERE WITH?
Speak now or FOREVER HOLD YOUR PIECE PEACE WHICHEVER ONE ✌☮🕊🏳. HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES. Don't be a voluntary victim. And with added scrutiny I'd imagine that we better realize there could be some disgruntled potential guests...SO be prepared to INCREASE security in every possible way. Its an uphill battle but it could cut down on crime. There's so much to be said on this topic. AND I THINK IT IS VERY UNFAIR TO JUST DECLARE THAT THE PEOPLE AT THE FRONT DESK KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. THERE COULD BE HONEST CASES WHERE THEY DON'T KNOW.
Simple legalize prostitution
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.
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.
@@Goldzwiebel Out with the old oppression, in with the new. Now they can join the ranks of the wage slaves on zero-hour contracts.
I’ve been working as a housekeeper at Marriott since April and never heard of any of this training
"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.
ikr, like duh
Obviously they’re being forced
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.
Any place w a bed will be used to traffic. Marriot isnt any special
The Waldorf Astoria has trafficking
@@organicsoulgumbo all hotel chains have trafficking. My point is that making it out like certain hotels r running a scheme
@@forgotten1s they all are implicit on one level or another.
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.
Yeah I was a PBX-hotel operator and front desk associate and we turned away people all of the time
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.
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.
@@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.
@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.
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.
hehe hi RC
It’s called a cell phone
@@organicsoulgumbo no, it's called a telegraph
@@RC404 i invented the first telegraph
@@RC404 if you’re in danger just call the cops 🤷🏾♂️
My prayers are with victims and survivors of Human Trafficking.Amen.
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.
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?
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
Also as a person with a sister who independently went from being a regonal manager for marriot to a working girl working at the various hotels. She has told me a numerous occasions the things these "experts" teach these hotels are not even remotely close to how the industry works. Basically experts show up with " false statistics" supported by the narrative that the companies dont care if they dont pay for there "training courses" then they basically give them these "warning signs" they never see because they are not accurate. When they dont see any of these signs they feel confident it works. And can say "look we take it serious" from my 3rd party upclose experience its everywhere you wouldnt even think of. It could be at the mall or the soccer mom at your sons game. Its probably going on in your gated community and youd be none the wiser.
They know this they just want to go after escorts.
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
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
Exactly. It's not like the prostitutes wear a sign on their back.
Anybody else bothered how “La Quinta” was pronounced? It’s pronounced more like “Lah Keenta”
My favorite pronunciation was "Ma-nipple-ate" at 6:41 lol
Exactly. The narrator for this story is rather uneducated. She was just reading copy and not doing a good job of it. I could barely listen to her without getting annoyed.
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.
This was very informative. Thank you.
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.
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.
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.
Are you serious???? How naive can you be?? An overwhelming majority of prostitutes are victims of human trafficking. Look it up.
How do we report such activity by hotel employees? Just one hotel near by did some ugly things right in front of me while checking in....
Thank You For Sharing 😢
so Marriott should be shut down just like craigslist casual encounters section was shut down, right? we all know this won't happen.
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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
Or the US government could legalize prostitution
Job security?
@@michaellim4165 - what about job security?
Then when Marriot jacked up the price of the rooms to pay for them, nobody would come to stay with them anymore.
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.
Why did it seem like the Marriott lady was loosely reciting a script that was very carefully prepared by a team of lawyers before being handed off to the marketing department so they could put their own spin on it. I feel like she was trying to get me to book a room and bragging about the fact managers get a whole hour and twenty minutes of training like once every year or so.
I don't know why but I felt a little gross listening to her talk. Like when she brought up the laws that were being passed that would hold hotels accountable for human trafficking and require them to provide their employees with training on the subject, it seemed like she was more concerned with letting us know that Marriott had already been providing some amount of training long before these laws and how awesome they are for that than she was with discussing ways Marriott and the hotel industry as a whole can expend some serious and legitimate effort to curb human trafficking as much as possible. If Marriott is so awesome and so concerned with actually making an impact, why aren't they calling up the other hotel chains and providing them with their proven training methods, information, data they may have collected on traffickers and victims, etc.? The vibe I got from that lady, and the reason why Marriott isn't doing any of these things I just mentioned, is that they care about helping victims of human trafficking only as much as it prevents them from being the subject of any bad press, as well as whatever ways they can mold the whole situation into some kind of marketing tool.
Gross. I will never understand why people (yes, people. I'm not just talking about the government, but actual real human Americans) seem to think that these large corporations care about people even a little bit, and that we shouldn't tax them or regulate them because they'll eventually use their money to better the country and the lives of people all around the world.
These trafficking terms are very vague. I assume they’re talking mostly about prostitution, but have changed the language.
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Cancel hotels.
The Marriott spokeswoman robot is super impressive. I didn't realize android technology had come so far!
great that marriot, hilton, and the like are putting training and program against it, being ESG responsible is worth a applaud,
but the problem is more at the run down cheap place.
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. )
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
Nah. Because the criminals could find ways around the "system" for prostituting children
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
@@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/ )
@@blanco-sanchez450 Exactly!!
*How about the guests staying in these hotels who contract such a service through the internet?*
I can never sleep in hotels. All that energy stays there.
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.
Afford a person I can't even afford rent that's how you know it's the Rich and Powerful doing it