USA TODAY
The five-year plan from the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation aims to increase diversity in the industry in which people of color mostly occupy lower-paying entry-level roles and the vast majority of senior managers are white.
The American Hotel & Lodging Association has 27,000 members, including 10 of the largest hotel companies, in the U.S., including Marriott, Wyndham, Hilton and Hyatt, and 80% of franchise hotels.
Rosanna Maietta, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging foundation, said the industry is coming together “to see greater and faster impact.
In a 2019 report card citing Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data, the NAACP found that entry-level and lower-wage positions were mostly staffed by workers of color, but “racial and ethnic minorities remain inequitably dispersed throughout the lodging workforce.
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January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and Jan. 11 is recognized as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. In connection with the designations, ECPAT-USA, an organization seeking to end the commercial and sexual exploitation of children, released an update of its Unpacking Human Trafficking report, first released in May 2019, that highlights progress on that initiative related to the U.S. lodging industry.
The report details trafficking laws in all 50 states, including those that have required lodging facilities to display signage calling attention to the problem of human trafficking and those that have enacted legislation mandating training on the issue for hospitality workers. Additionally, some states have enacted laws addressing the criminal and civil liability of lodging facilities for incidents of human trafficking that occur on their properties.