Our work doesn’t end at the time of intervention; AHLA and the AHLA Foundation remain committed to supporting and empowering survivors beyond the hotel doors.

At all levels of government, lawmakers are taking action to combat trafficking across industries. This campaign sends a clear message that we in the hotel industry are proactively engaging on this issue at all levels. By using our campaign as a building block, AHLA has developed core legislative principles for the industry.

To view AHLA’s core legislative principles, click here.

WASHINGTON (June 25, 2019) – The American & Hotel Lodging Association (AHLA) today commended the U.S. Department of Labor for its efforts to provide clarity and certainty to employers in comments submitted to the Department for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Joint Employer Status. 

HONOLULU (June 24, 2019) – The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) today released the following statement regarding the announcement of Hawaii Governor David Ige’s intent to veto Senate Bill 1292 regarding vacation rentals. The statement is attributable to Chip Rogers, president and CEO of AHLA.

WASHINGTON (June 19, 2019) – A new report released today highlights how states and localities are losing millions of dollars in tax revenue from “voluntary collection agreements" with short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb.

WASHINGTON (May 16, 2019) – Today Representatives Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) introduced the Employee Flexibility Act of 2019 (H.R. 2782, S. 1510), a bill to change the Affordable Care Act’s definition of full-time employees from an average of 30 hours per week to 40 hours per week.

CHICAGO, IL (May 1, 2019) – Hospitality Technology Next Generation's (HTNG's) Staff Alert Technology Workgroup, in partnership with the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), releases a Device Buyer's Guide to point hospitality companies in the right direction whether at the start or during the process of device adoption.

BROOKLYN, NY (May 1, 2019) – To help lodging companies facing different laws about human trafficking in different states, ECPAT-USA, with the financial support of the AHLA Foundation, today issued a report detailing what each state requires and providing materials to comply with the laws.