2016 ANNUAL REPORT

Travel With Purpose

Waldorf Astoria New York

Travel
with
purpose

Our mission is to be the most hospitable company in the world.

As a leading global hospitality company, we have a responsibility to our people, the guests we serve, the owners we grow our business with and the communities we call home.

Travel with Purpose is our commitment to operate responsibly. We focus our efforts in the areas where we can have the greatest impact — creating opportunities for people, strengthening communities and preserving our environment.

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CREATING

Opportunities

We are committed to open doors for at least 1 million young people by 2019 through connecting, preparing or employing them. Our future as a business and society depends on thriving societies, and this starts with young people.

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STRENGTHENING

Communities

We mobilize our team members to identify solutions and share their hospitality skills to make a lasting positive impact in the thousands of communities we call home.

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PRESERVING

Environments

We have nearly 5,000 hotels recording energy use, water use and waste diversion, setting goals and sharing best practices through LightStay, our proprietary corporate responsibility measurement platform. As we empower teams to reduce their local impacts, we partner with World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) to focus on energy, water, sustainable seafood and food waste at the global level.

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