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#SECTUR.- Rosillo Iglesias said that the purpose of these workshops is to develop activities with a high reflexive impact on the prevention of human trafficking, mainly for the purpose of sexual and/or labor exploitation of children and adolescents.
Likewise, within the framework of the 16 days of activism against violence against women, she detailed the Integral Strategy for the Prevention of Human Trafficking and Child Labor Free Tourism, implemented in 2023 and in which the National Code of Conduct was promoted, to contribute to the dissemination of preventive information and the strengthening of a culture of denunciation in the travel and tourism sector, with which collaboration networks have been established and more than 341 tourism service providers and public servants in Mexico City have been trained this year; Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and Cancun, Quintana Roo.
He reported that during 2023, Sectur supported the civil association SIN TRATA, A.C. in the preparation of the study: «Tourism in the face of modern slavery: Challenges and opportunities for the hotel sector in Mexico in the face of human trafficking and exploitation», which analyzes the needs, motivations and obstacles of MSME hotels in Mexico, to adopt practices against human trafficking. As a result of this research, SIN TRATA is designing a toolkit that will support MSME hotels in 2024.
The Head of Administration and Finance of Sectur said that raising awareness and training tourism service providers «is the best tool to combat human trafficking and exploitation through prevention».
For this reason, she said that during 2023 Sectur, in collaboration with civil society organizations such as Fundación Freedom, Fundación Infantia, and World Vision and public institutions such as Segob, the National DIF System and the National System for the Protection of Children and Adolescents, participated in 25 online and face-to-face events, raising awareness and training more than 16,755 people on how to detect, report and prevent human trafficking, exploitation of children and adolescents and child labor, concluding this year’s actions in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur with the presence of 130 people.
He pointed out that Sectur’s National Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children and Adolescents in the travel and tourism sector, recognized by the UNWTO as one of the 16 best practices in the world, is an instrument that has positioned itself as the main tool for the design of safe spaces against the sexual and labor exploitation of children and adolescents and against child labor in the travel and tourism sector, whose commitment 198 companies and tourism establishments from various branches throughout the country have voluntarily adopted during 2023.
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