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CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Pursuant to Law No. 28251; Law against abuse and sexual exploitation,” which incorporated offenses of user-client and sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in the tourism sector; we consider the MINIMUM COMMITMENTS THAT ALL TOURISM SERVICE PROVIDERS MUST ASSUME.In order to counteract the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in travel and tourism, tourism service providers will adopt a Code of Conduct that their legal representatives, directors, administrators, employees, and contractors linked to the provision of tourism services must observe, in order to enforce the obligations contemplated in Law 28251, as well as to prevent the behaviors typified in the same law, and likewise, it must incorporate the following minimum control measures:
  1. Refrain from offering in tourist promotion programs and tourist plans, expressly or surreptitiously, plans for sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
  2. Refrain from providing tourists, directly or through an intermediary, with information about places where the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is coordinated or practiced.
  3. Refrain from driving tourists, directly or through third parties, to establishments or places where the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is practiced, as well as driving them to the places where tourists are housed, even if they are ships located in the High Seas, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
  4. Refrain from providing vehicles on tourist routes for the purpose of exploitation or sexual abuse with children and adolescents.
  5. Prevent the entry of children and adolescents into hotels or accommodation and lodging places, bars, similar businesses, and other establishments where tourism services are provided, for the purpose of exploitation or sexual abuse.
  6. Adopt measures to prevent personnel linked to the company in any capacity from offering tourism services that allow sexual activity with children and adolescents.
  7. Report to MINCETUR and other competent authorities, the facts that it has become aware of by any means, as well as the existence of places related to the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and ensure that there are channels for the corresponding complaint within the company to the competent authorities.
  8. Design and disseminate internally within the company and with its providers of goods and services, a policy in which the provider establishes measures to prevent and counteract all forms of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in travel and tourism.
  9. Train all personnel linked to the company on the prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
  10. Inform its users about the legal consequences in Peru of the exploitation and sexual abuse of children and adolescents.
  11. Post this Code of Conduct and any other commitments and measures that the provider wishes to assume to protect children and adolescents in a visible place for employees of the establishment or trade establishments.
“In compliance with Law No. 28251, the agency warns the tourist that the exploitation and sexual abuse of minors in the country are penalized criminally and administratively, in accordance with current laws.”
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