Check-In to Complicity: How Global Hotel Chains Are Enabling Atrocities in the Uyghur Region

May 11, 2025 | The Daily Kos

In April 2025, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) released a deeply disturbing report titled It Does Matter Where You Stay: International Hotel Chains in East Turkistan. Authored by Peter Irwin, Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, and Ben Carrdus, the report reveals a staggering truth: major international hotel chains are not only operating in China’s Uyghur Region amid a recognized genocide—they are expanding.

Chains including Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Wyndham, and Accor collectively run at least 115 hotels in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), with another 74 under construction or in planning, bringing the total to nearly 190. These luxury developments stand in sharp contrast to the horrifying reality of Uyghur life: mass surveillance, forced labor, systematic cultural erasure, and the internment of over a million people in so-called “reeducation” camps.

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