A/HRC/22/54 (d) Both existing and emerging tourist destinations should be monitored and partners from the private sector developing tourist services worked with proactively, in order to elaborate measures to prevent the sexual exploitation of children; (e) Reporting by informing people of the issue and empowering them to act should be encouraged; (f) Efforts to address the root causes and the risk factors that perpetuate the phenomenon should be strengthened; (g) Prevention strategies aimed at potential or registered offenders must be adapted to different behavioural typologies and based on reliable research. The International Child Protection Certificate model, launched by CEOP, should be reproduced throughout the world to prevent registered child sex offenders from accessing work with children abroad. 99. Sustainable and adapted training (intervention levels) and training of trainers for a common understanding and harmonization of practices should be established: (a) Students and staff from the travel and tourism industry must be adequately trained and equipped with methodological guides; (b) Law enforcement officers must be provided with the necessary technical equipment and have the required skills, including how to deal with child sex offenders, evidence collection, use of video testimonies. etc.; (c) The quality of this training should be evaluated on an on-going basis. 100. Sustainable and coordinated transnational cooperation should be established, though: (a) Sustainable police and judiciary cooperation, including the exchange of information, investigations, prosecution of every case where a person is suspected or accused of having sexually exploited a child in another country; (b) Informing travellers of the legal sanctions linked to the sexual exploitation of children abroad; (c) Developing and sharing reliable and standardized databases of cases at regional and international level; (d) Strengthening and expanding the international alert system to inform and communicate information about individuals having committed criminal offenses and likely to reoffend in other countries; (e) Establishing an international and regularly updated registration system of people convicted of sex crimes against children; (f) Supporting multi-stakeholder events which disseminate good practices, strategies and practical actions for the tourism industry on child protection as part of responsible tourism; (g) Providing sustainable technical and financial support to developing countries, both in existing and emerging tourist destinations in view to ensure a better prevention and protection of all the children from sexual exploitation in travel and tourism. 22

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