The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is known for attracting some of the most powerful and influential people in the world but the five-day summit is also a lucrative opportunity for a different profession – prostitution.
The global elite tackling the world’s greatest problems – including gender inequality -at the Davos summit are fuelling a surge in prostitution in the Swiss resort town.
According to reports, the demand for sexual services increases significantly during the annual WEF summit, as business leaders, politicians, and other elites gather. Many sex workers travel to Davos specifically for the event, seeing it as a prime opportunity to make money.
Escorts are booked into the same hotels as high-powered bosses and their employees during the five-day summit, which started on January 16.
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One sex worker named Liana said she dresses in business attire so she doesn’t stand out among the executives, despite prostitution being legal in Switzerland.
She told Bild she regularly sees an American who visits Switzerland multiple times a year and is among the 2,700 conference attendees.
Liana charges around €700 ($760) for an hour and €2,300 ($2,500) for the whole night, plus travel expenses.
The manager of one escort service in Aargau, 100 miles away from the summit, says she has already received 11 bookings and 25 inquiries – and expects many more to follow this week.
She told 20 Minuten: ‘Some also book escorts for themselves and their employees to party in the hotel suite.’
Salome Balthus, a sex worker and writer, posted on Twitter: ‘Date in Switzerland during #WWF means looking at the gun muzzles of security guards in the hotel corridor at 2 a.m. – and then sharing the giveaway chocolates from the restaurant with them and gossiping about the rich. #Davos
Seunmanuel Faleye is a brand and communications strategist. He is a covert writer and an overt creative head. He publishes Apple’s Bite International Magazine.
