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In the United States, as elsewhere in the world, hotels and motels are frequently used by human traffickers to exploit their victims. Analysis of 47 civil cases filed in federal courts since 2015 by human trafficking victims against hotels and hotel chains reveals that much abuse of victims is facilitated or tolerated by hotel employees. Despite recent corporate efforts to establish policies to counter human trafficking, these cases reveal that the training and procedures established by leading corporations in the hospitality sector are inadequate to address the problem as hotels remain the key locus of prosecuted cases of sex trafficking in the United States. The chapter provides a series of policies that hotel entities can adopt to combat sex trafficking more effectively on their properties, including expanding whistleblower protections, collaborating with local law enforcement, improving human trafficking awareness training, and providing better monitoring of surveillance cameras and hotel Wi-Fi networks.