Educational Resources

This tool is designed to help your business assess and understand its potential risks in relation to child sexual exploitation and trafficking in your industry and take action to protect children.

Duration: 15 minutes

With the growing trend of tourism activities featuring visits to local projects, more children are involved in tourism and can be put at risk of exploitation. As part of their human rights due diligence, tourism businesses need to develop child-sensitive products, implement policies and adopt approaches that recognise children's vulnerability, seek to mitigate risks and ensure their safety. This webinar is targeted at tourism businesses and other stakeholders offering project visits where tourists come into contact with children during their travels.

Duration: 1 hour

This factsheet contains guidance for hotels to recognise and mitigate the risks to their employees and job seekers of recruitment scams.

Length: 3 pages

This course will guide you in building and successfully managing a workplace HIV programme, to protect the rights of everyone, reduce HIV related stigma and discrimination, and address inequalities.

Duration: 9 modules over 8-10 hours

This training course provides the foundation for challenging stigma and discrimination, and for promoting person-centred, recovery oriented and human rights based approaches in mental health. 

Duration: 6 modules over 24 hours

This Restaurant Operations course sets the foundation for creating a smooth customer experience, from setting the service at a restaurant for both casual and fine dining to covering preparation and closure procedures. You will also study food safety quality standards and learn to integrate sustainability principles, contributing to the UN SDGs by reducing water consumption and waste production and using seasonal, local products to support a circular economy.

Duration: 8 hours

This self-paced course teaches tourism managers and enthusiasts to develop child-friendly tourism, understand child rights, identify negative impacts, promote positive practices, and combat child sexual exploitation in tourism. 

Duration: 1 hour

This tool is designed to help your business assess and understand its risk in relation to child sexual exploitation and/or trafficking and take action to protect children. 

Duration: 15 minutes

This self-paced course explores tourism's impact on child rights, highlighting children’s vulnerabilities and how growing travel trends increase risks. It offers insights into protecting children and benefits for your tourism business. (1 hour)

In this series of 7 video lessons, you can engage in a flexible and self-paced learning experience, the lessons feature ILO specialists who share their stories and expertise, providing valuable insights. You can take a test and earn a digital credential, validating your newfound expertise. 

Duration: 7 videos

These guidelines have been developed to provide a common understanding of child welfare issues through the travel industry and to provide all travel businesses with guidance to prevent all forms of exploritation and abuse of children that could be related to travelers and their tourism industry. In shhort, they will enable you to do more good through your business. 

Duration: 45 pages

The Child Welfare and the Travel Industry: Global Good Practice Guidelines have been developed to provide a common understanding of child welfare issues throughout the travel industry and to provide all travel businesses with guidance to prevent all forms of exploitation and abuse of children that could be related to travellers and the tourism industry.

Duration: 13 pages

The “Steps to Staying Safe Storybook” features Maria, a young girl who encounters tricky people. It teaches children to identify safe strangers, trusted adults, and unsafe situations, helping them recognize dangers and know how to stay safe through an engaging story.  It is available in various South African vanacular languages. 

Duration: 16 pages

Think Childsafe has developed 7 Tips to highlight how certain well-intentioned actions by tourists can actually harm children. Visiting orphanages or schools, giving to begging children, or “slum tourism” may seem helpful, but often keep children in poverty or expose them to abuse. These tips show what to avoid and offer positive ways to make a real difference.

Duration: 4 pages

This handbook targets the tourism sector, focusing on accommodation and transportation. It guides managers on communicating with children and preventing child exploitation. The handbook offers examples of preventive policies for hotels, taxis, airlines, travel agencies, and other transportation providers to help protect children in the tourism industry. 

Duration: 84 pages

A video that explains why donations often don’t help orphans.  For more information visit the website for ThinkChildSafe

Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds