227 Copyright © 2022, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 15 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9282-3.ch015 ABSTRACT Human trafcking is doubtless a major crime – jointly with terrorism and child abuse. It is estimated that more than two billion people are missing in the world each year. These numbers associate to human trafcking as an illegal act—known as well as slavery—where the victims not only are deprived of their liberty but also forced to be enslaved or sexually exploited. Trafcking victims include women, men, and children of all ages and social classes. In the feld of tourism, human trafcking leads to sexual activities. Human trafcking is certainly based on a much deeper process where the victim is under-humanised, which the victim lacks any basic right or legal protection during its captivity. This under-valorisation process centres on what specialists dubbed “desensitization dynamic.” The captor feels little empathy for the hosted victim or feels he or she should not be considered a human being. This process has been widely studied by clinical psychology, but little is known about the desensitization process in the felds of tourism and hospitality. INTRODUCTION In the twenty-first century, some organizations have denounced millions of persons who are illegally seized trafficked or enslaved in the world. Although states coordinate efforts to struggle against human trafficking, it is very hard to set an international legal background that helps security forces to dismantle these illegal organizations. Paradoxically, human trafficking connects very well with legal industries like tourism and hospitality and other sub-service sectors. To some extent, scholars have been captivated by human trafficking though few credible solutions saw the light of publicity to date. It is very hard to cope with illegal organizations which seize and traffic vulnerable persons. The present book chapter focuses Failed Hospitality: Human Traffcking in the HBO Saga Westworld Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-1669 University of Palermo, Argentina