Posts Tagged ‘Tourism’
UHRP 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…
Read MoreEuropean Travel Companies Offer Xinjiang “Genocide Tours”: 18 Companies Named in New UHRP Briefing
January 17, 2024 | 7:00 a.m. ESTFor Immediate ReleaseContact: Omer Kanat +1 (202) 790-1795, Peter Irwin +1 (646) 906-7722 New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) highlights the ongoing problem of organized travel to the Uyghur region amid crimes against humanity and genocide. The briefing, Genocide Tours: European Travel Companies in East Turkistan,…
Read MorePropaganda, Tourism and Culture: Hu Heping Taking Us for a Ride
In August 2023, US Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo was in Beijing to meet the Minister for Culture and Tourism, Hu Heping, where both sides agreed to “foster better understanding” on tourism between the US and China while citing the importance of “people-to-people” exchanges to the broader US-China relationship.
Read MoreState Department MOU Recognizes China’s Ownership and Control Over Uyghur and Tibetan Cultural Heritage
Uyghurs and Tibetans have seen the People’s Republic of China (PRC) purposefully destroy their cultural heritage in an effort to create the false narrative that the Han were always the dominant culture throughout what is now China.
Read MoreUHRP Alerts Commerce Secretary Raimondo to Uyghur Human Rights Risks Regarding “China-US Tourism Summit”
Following the release of a UHRP briefing highlighting the risk of complicity faced by international travel companies offering organized tours to East Turkistan, Executive Director Omer Kanat sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to express concerns over tourism cooperation with the Chinese government.
Read MoreTwo Tourism Companies Drop East Turkistan Offerings, UHRP Calls for Zero Package Tours in a Genocide Zone
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) is calling on international travel companies to drop package tours to East Turkistan, following the release of a UHRP briefing highlighting their risk of complicity in an ongoing genocide.
Read MoreGenocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan
New research from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) highlights the troubling industry of organized travel to the Uyghur region despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide. The briefing, Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan, is the first on a series on the tourism industry in East Turkistan.
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