Posts Tagged ‘Tourism’
New UHRP Report: Global Winter Sports and Leisure Brands Expanding in Uyghur Region Amid Atrocity Crimes
A new report by Peter Irwin for the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) finds that more than 40 globally recognized winter sports, apparel, hospitality, and infrastructure companies have expanded operations in the Uyghur Region since the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, embedding themselves in a state-led tourism strategy unfolding amid documented crimes against humanity.
Read MoreHow a casual online booking can link you to repression in the Uyghur Region
February 6, 2026 | Open Global Rights | By Henryk Szadziewski and Peter Irwin Open your browser, go to Booking.com, and search for a hotel in “Xinjiang.” Within seconds, major international hotel brands—Accor, Hilton, Hyatt, InterContinental (IHG), Marriott, Wyndham—populate the screen. Now try the same with Expedia. You’ll see that both these sites facilitate bookings in a…
Read MoreWhat to See When Traveling Through a Genocide: Travel Guidebooks and the Uyghur Region
The phrasing obscures much about what has happened in the region since the last one was published in May 2022.
Read MoreUHRP Research Reveals Surge in Cargo Flights Embedding Uyghur Forced Labor Risks in European Supply Chains
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), authored by Peter Irwin and Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, has uncovered the rapid expansion of air cargo routes connecting Ürümchi with over a dozen cities across Europe.
Read MorePrinceton University Press’ Trip into Chinese State Propaganda Erasing Atrocities, and How They Can Support Uyghur Intellectuals
In June 2025, a group of Princeton University Press (PUP) representatives participated in a state-arranged visit to the Uyghur Region. PUP claimed the intention of the trip was to build “inclusive cross-cultural interactions.”
Read MoreUHRP Urges UK to Clarify Minister’s Meeting with IHG Over Operations Amid Atrocities, Ties to Sanctioned Entity
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is urging the UK government to clarify the nature and scope of Trade Minister Douglas Alexander’s meetings with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) during his April 2025 trip to China.
Read MoreUHRP Report Sparks UK Parliamentarians to Call on IHG to Explain Expansion in Uyghur Region Amid Atrocity Crimes
A group of UK Parliamentarians from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) have issued a joint letter to the CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), raising alarm over the company’s expanding footprint in East Turkistan, where Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are subjected to crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.
Read MoreUHRP Investigation Reveals Startling Expansion of International Hotel Chains in the Uyghur Region
A new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) reveals alarming evidence that major international hotel chains—Accor, Hilton, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Marriott, and Wyndham—are operating and dramatically expanding their presence in East Turkistan despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.
Read MoreThe Travel Industry Is Normalizing Crimes Against Humanity
Between 2019 and 2020, for a paper on the role of tourism in the securitization of the Uyghur Region, I interviewed several Uyghurs, former tour guides in their homeland and now in exile. The above quote came from a tour guide with more than twenty years of experience and a former resident of Kashgar.
Read MoreEuropean Travel Companies Asked to Drop East Turkistan Tours, as UHRP Calls for an End to Organized Tourism Amid Crimes Against Humanity
For immediate releaseMarch 21, 2024, 7:00 a.m. EDTContact: Omer Kanat, +1 (202) 790-1795, Peter Irwin, +1 (646) 906-7722 The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is calling on European travel companies to drop organized tours to East Turkistan, following the release of a UHRP briefing highlighting their risk of complicity in crimes against humanity. “We alerted…
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