GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF THE ANNUAL REPORT AND THE CORPORATE RESPONSIBILTIY REPORT

SCOPE

This Report contains the twelfth edition of the Annual Corporate Responsibility Report of NH Hotel Group. It includes the activity and main results of the Group in the 2017 financial year, and describes its economic, environmental and social performance.

The information is broken down by Business Units and countries in which the Company operates, with the exception of the financial data, which refer to the entire Group.

CONTENTS

The contents of the Report focus on relevant matters for the activity of NH and its main stakeholders on the basis of the Materiality Analysis, which is updated every year. This analysis takes account of the Company’s strategy and objectives, the Responsible Business Plan, consultations with interest groups and material issues at industry level defined by the International Tourism Partnership (ITP). The materiality study can be consulted in the relevant section of this Report.

CRITERIA

The following global standards and principles have been used in preparing this Report:

• The G4 Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for Sustainability Reporting, core option: following the 2016 edition of the guidelines.
• The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This Report and previous reports are published digitally and are available at www.nhhotelgroup.com