B.6.    The company has implemented a policy against commercial exploitation, particularly  of children and adolescents, including sexual exploitation.

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Children, adolescents, women and minorities are particularly vulnerable to abusive labor practices, including sexual exploitation. Weak law enforcement, corruption, the Internet, ease of travel, and poverty have created an underground industry which creates devastating immediate and long term community impacts in terms of disease, pregnancies, trauma, ostracism and even death.  Many codes and international initiatives within the tourism industry have appeared in recent years as a result of this growing threat.  Tourism businesses can play a key role in ensuring the protection of local populations at destination by not buying products produced with child labor; not allowing use of tourism premises for sexual exploitation of minors and denouncing these practices to local authorities. 

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Potential Indicators

•    Scale (for example):
      •    0 = No code of conduct exists
      •    2 = Code of conduct included in written policy
      •    4 = Code of conduct is displayed internally and externally
      •    6 = Code is incorporated into training
      •    8 = Training is regularly updated
      •    10 = Awareness-raising campaigns exist among employees,    
            customers and the community.

•    Number of incident reports from host destination authorities