A/78/162 50. In Bangladesh, the Mro Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts are facing threats of eviction from their lands for the construction a five-star Marriott hotel, amusement park, artificial lake and cable cars to transport tourists across their lands. The Government and developers have encroached on Mro farmland, forests and cremation grounds to build the hotel. The Mro are subject to restrictions on their free movement and militarization of their lands, and women have been sexually assaulted and killed as a result of the land conflict. Indigenous human rights defenders have been subjected to intimidation and accusations of being terrorists and have received death threats for having protested against the tourism project. 86 51. In Africa, private actors have forcibly evicted communities to create conservation areas without obtaining free, prior and informed consent and have paid Indigenous persons low wages for their work in the tourism industry. 87 Since 2013, the mandate holder has repeatedly raised concerns regarding the escalating violence and eviction of Maasai pastoralists in the United Republic of Tanzania in the context of tourism businesses operating in the Loliondo Game Controlled Area of the Ngorongoro District, located on Maasai lands. 88 The Area corresponds with the 1,500 square-km commercial hunting zone operated by the Ortello Business C orporation of the United Arab Emirates and its security forces, in accordance with a concession granted by the United Republic of Tanzania. In a past incident, the Government allocated Maasai lands to the Tanzania Breweries Limited for barley production, which then sold its lease to a tourism company, Tanzania Conservation Limited. 89 In 2006, Tanzania Conservation private security guards forcibly evicted 200 Maasai from the Sukenya Farm area and burned their homes. Maasai pastoralists attempting to access their lands were detained by Tanzania Conservation security or police and taken to local prisons, where they had to pay substantial fees to be released. 90 52. In Latin America, tourism operators have generated social conflicts by attempting to divide communities, providing lower salaries for Indigenous employees than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Tourism megaprojects that proceed without consultation and adequate social and environmental impact assessments have led to land privatization, evictions, loss of communal development projects and environmental contamination. In addition, tourism companies and large corporations control most of the tourism operations in the Amazon region. 91 53. The “Original Original” accreditation programme of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada can be used as a good example for the tourism industry to __________________ 86 87 88 89 90 91 23-13642 Communication UA BGD 8/2020; communication UA OTH 84/2020, available at https://spcomm reports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=25811; and joint submission by International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact; and submissions by Bangladesh Indigenous Youth Forum and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti. Joint submission by Indigenous Peoples Rights International and International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Communication TZA 2/2019; communication TZA 1/2016 addressed to the United Republic of Tanzania, available at https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublic CommunicationFile?gId=3343; and communication TZA 2/2013 addressed to the United Republic of Tanzania, available at https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/Down LoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=18413. See also Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights press release, special procedures, “Tanzania: United Nations experts warn of escalating violence amidst plans to forcibly evict Maasai from ancestral lands” (15 June 2022). Tanzania Conservation Limited is owned by Thomson Safaris Limited, a Tanzanian company that is a subsidiary of a United States-based company. Communication TZA 3/2013 addressed to the United Republic of Tanzania, available at https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=22007 . Joint submission by Indigenous Peoples Rights International and International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 15/25