ABOUT THE
CONSOLIDATED
NON-FINANCIAL
INFORMATION
STATEMENT

ABOUT THE CONSOLIDATED

NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION STATEMENT

This Consolidated Non-Financial Information Statement (hereinafter NFIS or “the Report”) is presented as a separate report and constitutes part of the NH Hotel Group’s Consolidated Management Report 2020. It deals extensively with the Company’s Responsible Business Strategy, NH ROOM4 Sustainable Business, concentrating in a single document:

  • The Company’s response to the legal requirements of Act 11/2018, of December 28th, 2018, concerning nonfinancial and diversity reporting, as well as EU directive 2017/C215/01 for reporting its performance in relation to non-financial information.
  • The Sustainable Business Report, which follows the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The NFIS has been drawn up by the Board of Directors of NH Hotel Group on February 24th, 2021, and was signed by all its members, with the specifications resulting from the Directors’ Statement of Responsibility for the purposes of the provisions of article 118.2 of Royal Legislative Decree 4/2015 of October 23rd, which approves the revised text of the Securities Market Act), in which the delegation made by some Directors of their respective signatures to other Directors is recorded. This Report and the previous CSR Reports are published in digital format and are available at www.nhhotelgroup.com

* European Union. Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 22nd, 2014, which amends Directive 2013/34/EU regarding disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies and groups.

CONTENTS

The definition of the contents of the Report is based on matters that are relevant for the activity of NH Hotel Group and its main stakeholders, based on the Materiality Analysis which is updated each year. The Group has different systems for dialoguing with its stakeholders, which are a source of analysis in defining the relevant content to be included in the report. T. The results of this communication make it possible to keep the mechanisms for identifying needs active, as well as the most relevant aspects to be included in the Report, in addition to the follow-up of commitments and compliance with the challenges set out in the previous year.

To carry out the Materiality Analysis, the following items are taken into account: the Company’s strategy and objectives, the NH ROOM4 strategy, the material issues at sector level defined by the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, the main social and sustainability trends, and the requirements of different reporting and sustainability frameworks, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Act 11/2018 on Non- Financial and Diversity Reporting, which responds to Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament . The complete Materiality Analysis can be consulted in the corresponding section of this Report.

SCOPE

This Report sets out the fifteenth Annual Sustainable Business Report of NH Hotel Group. It includes the Group’s activity and main results for the financial year 2020, integrating economic, environmental and social performance.

The Report shows NH Hotel Group’s management of the impacts, both positive and negative, that the Company generates, and its scope therefore contemplates two perimeters: consolidated scope (owned and leased hotels) and corporate scope (hotels under ownership, management and lease). It therefore includes information on all the hotels operated by the Company, in other words, hotels operated under lease, ownership and management. The eight hotels that have entered the portfolio in October 2020 following the agreement with Covivio are not included in the scope of the environmental and employee data of this Report.

In the case of information referring to the workforce, full-time equivalent (FTE) figures are included for all types of employees (except Outside Labour, Extra Labour and Trainees) considering hotels under ownership, lease, and management based on the data in NH Hotel Group’s ERP SAP HCM management system.

Where the scope of information varies from these criteria, a footnote is provided.

* Does not include franchises