hundreds of Modern slavery The victims are working in the UK bars, restaurant, hotel And CampA charity has warned.
Some victims, who are “greed” from a better life promises, have been abandoned with high debt as £ 30,000.
Charity Undhikhi said that similar abuses in the care sector in recent years are now becoming clear. hospitality industryIts helpline recorded a sharp increase in potential victims associated with skilled worker visa route.
Last year, 75 modern slavery potential victims in the hospitality region were reportedly on these visas, from just one in 2023.
Overall, between January 2024 and June 2025, 485 potential victims were reported that unseen helpline was working in food and beverages, which may include takeaWays and catering companies as well as bars and restaurants, and 85 in 85 in leisure housing such as hotels, motal, campsite and Holidays.
These included skilled activists on visas, and other types of visas, or workers, for whom the visa information was not explained for the helpline.
The report states: “Since 2022, similar features in modern slavery in the care sector have now become clear in hospitality, migrant workers have experienced the same abuses at the hands of their employers.
“The major topics belong to a major inequality between a worker and the promise of reality after coming to the UK. Illegal fee is charged in exchange for visas and sponsorship certificates; workers are usually placed on the site or in a residence provided by their employers; workers are threatened to re -release or deport their visa.”
The data published earlier this year suggested that thousands of care workers have come to UK under sponsors in recent years, whose licenses were later canceled, suggesting the scale of exploitation in the system.
Justin Carter, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Nakhi said that the hospitality is showing “similar features” of exploitation for the first time in the UK Care sector in 2022.
He said: “After coming to Britain, there is a promise to workers and reality and there is a great inequality between reality.
“Many are charged illegal fees, forced into poor housing, and threatened with exile if they speak.”
The report stated that while employers need to cover the costs related to recruitment, it is not always the case, “Many employers” demand not only to pay migrant workers for their visa and sponsorship certificates, but also charge them “excessive fees”.
Examples of hospitality workers near the helpline have been illegally done with an average loan of about 18,271 pounds, for the so -called visa fee by their employers between £ 4,000 and £ 30,000.
Unseen said that some workers are in debt for people in their country, but others “are in a state of debt bonding to their employer, pay money through pay deduction”.
People may end in situations where they are left with very little money to see themselves, the charity said, and unable to get out of the situation where some employers pressurize them to work for a long time without brakes or time so that they can pay the loan.
Indian citizens were the most reported in modern slavery conditions in hospitality, with a total accounting for 40 percent, followed by Bangladeshi citizens by 13 percent.
While the number of British citizens was low, the UK was in the top four in 2024 and in the first half of 2025, 17 modern slavery with potential victims in hospitality in two years.
Home office has been contacted for comment.