The Organization for Responsible Tourism (ORT) issues this appeal to cruise line

s bringing passengers to Belize, a superhighway for human trafficking. We are as

king for your help in stopping human trafficking in Belize. In particular, we a
ppeal to Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival Cruise Lines, which bring a combined
700,000 tourists to Belize annually.

Cruise lines have a moral responsibility to help stop human trafficking in Beliz
e. Each year thousands of human trafficking victims are transited through Belize
via its porous and corrupt borders. Many are exported to other countries and n
ever seen again by their families. Many endure lives of forced prostitution in
Belize ficha bars.

This appeals brings forward, for your consideration, a number of measures cruise
line companies can take to address Belize human trafficking.

HOW CRUISE LINES CAN HELP STOP BELIZE HUMAN TRAFFICKING

ORT has extended an invitation to cruise lines to join us in persuading Belize P

rime Minister Dean Barrow to take action against human trafficking in his countr
y. The invitation remains open.

We also recommend that cruise lines bringing tourists to Belize consider the fol
lowing specific measures:

Self policing â ensure cruise ship staff are aware of areas where human traffickin
g victims are concentrated; ensure that they do not direct passengers to resorts
areas or specific bars where human trafficking victims are forced into prostitu
tion; ensure they do not act as conduits for sex tourism, connecting individual
passengers and human trafficking victims.

Educating passengers â provide information to passengers about areas with high con
centrations of human trafficking victims; advise passengers to avoid known towns
and resorts with a high representation of human trafficking bars.

San Pedro, Ambergris Caye - remove San Pedro, Ambergris Caye from all cruise lin
e itineraries; advise passengers not to visit San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, a hub f
or human trafficking San Pedro, Ambergris Caye is heavily populated with ficha b
ars specializing in exploiting women victims of human trafficking. The Town of
San Pedro, population 12,000, counts 90 human trafficking bars featuring forced
prostitution of human trafficking victims.

APPEAL

In submitting this appeal to Carnival Cruise Lines and Norwegian Cruise Line, I
am urging them to help Organization for Responsible Tourism stop human trafficki
ng in Belize

Specifically, I am endorsing the above-noted anti-trafficking measures regarding

: self-policing of cruise lines; making passengers aware of and encouraging them
to avoid Belize human trafficking centers; and removing San Pedro, Ambergris Ca
ye from cruise line itineraries.