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OUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS - Hilton

Hilton SLAVERY AND. HUMAN TRAFFICKING Statement FINANCIAL. YEAR 2019. This statement is published by Hilton , in compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. It details the steps taken by Hilton to identify and take steps to prevent modern slavery and HUMAN trafficking in all parts of its business and supply chains across its global operations during the Financial Year 2019. Hilton manages, leases and franchises hotels, provides hospitality services, and carries on business in the United Kingdom largely through Hilton Worldwide Manage Limited and Hilton Worldwide Limited, as well as Adda Hotels, HLT Stakis Operator Limited, Hilton Worldwide Holding LLP, Hilton International IP Holding Limited and Hilton International Hotels (UK) Limited. For the purposes of this statement, the companies carrying on business within the United Kingdom, including the entities mentioned above, are collectively referred to as Hilton .

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1 Hilton SLAVERY AND. HUMAN TRAFFICKING Statement FINANCIAL. YEAR 2019. This statement is published by Hilton , in compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. It details the steps taken by Hilton to identify and take steps to prevent modern slavery and HUMAN trafficking in all parts of its business and supply chains across its global operations during the Financial Year 2019. Hilton manages, leases and franchises hotels, provides hospitality services, and carries on business in the United Kingdom largely through Hilton Worldwide Manage Limited and Hilton Worldwide Limited, as well as Adda Hotels, HLT Stakis Operator Limited, Hilton Worldwide Holding LLP, Hilton International IP Holding Limited and Hilton International Hotels (UK) Limited. For the purposes of this statement, the companies carrying on business within the United Kingdom, including the entities mentioned above, are collectively referred to as Hilton .

2 OUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS . At Hilton , we have a shared purpose to be the most hospitable company in the world by positively impacting our guests, Team Members*, hotel owners and communities. As a business of people serving people, respecting HUMAN RIGHTS is a core part of our mission. Hilton is committed to implementing HUMAN RIGHTS due diligence across our global operations, to work with suppliers to eradicate any form of forced labor and HUMAN trafficking, and to create and partner with cross-industry networks to advance international HUMAN RIGHTS as part of our 2030 Travel with Purpose Goals. Hilton is a proud signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, and its HUMAN RIGHTS strategy is informed by the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and HUMAN RIGHTS (UNGPs).

3 OUR BUSINESS STRUCTURE Employees. There are approximately 251,300. AND SUPPLY CHAIN Franchise Employees who work on-property at independently owned and operated franchise Hilton is a global hospitality company with a properties in the Hilton portfolio. portfolio of 18 brands comprising more than 6,100. properties with more than 970,000 rooms in 119 HSM is the global procurement and supply chain countries and territories, supported by more than arm of Hilton . HSM supports more than 10,000. 424,800 Team Members*. hotels across the world, approximately 9 percent of which are Hilton -leased or managed properties, Under management agreements, we use our marks 50 percent are franchises and 41 percent are and systems to operate hotels. The 173,500 people independent businesses unaffiliated with Hilton .

4 Employed at our managed properties, leased hotels, HSM develops and negotiates product and service and our corporate offices (including Hilton Supply supply programs with more than 1,200 direct Management HSM ) are referred to as Hilton suppliers and over 150,000 suppliers across our Employees . systems that make available goods and services at Through franchise agreements, we license our the best combination of price, quality, and service. marks and systems, which help the franchisee While we strongly encourage our hotel owners succeed in its business. Franchised properties across our global portfolio to use HSM services, not make independent decisions regarding their hotel all hotel owners choose to participate. In addition, operations, including procurement, employment hotel owners are responsible for establishing their and training practices.

5 The people who are own supply chain during the development stage of employed by the owners (or its designees) of hotels, including construction. franchised properties are referred to as Franchise A more detailed description of our business model can be found in our public filings. Below is a chart showing the number and percentage of Hilton hotels as of (12/31/2019): Leased/Owned/. Joined Venture Managed Franchised Total Operating Hotels 65 703 5,287 6,110. Share of Total Operating Hotels 100%. OUR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICIES AND OUR DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES - RISK. GOVERNANCE IDENTIFICATION. Our COMMITMENT to respecting HUMAN RIGHTS is In 2015, we completed a global HUMAN RIGHTS impact enshrined in our code of Conduct, HUMAN RIGHTS assessment across our business activities, including Principles, and Responsible Sourcing Policy, managed and franchised hotels, corporate offices including the prohibition of forced labour, bonded and business relationships.

6 This assessment labour, child labour, slave labour, HUMAN trafficking focused on the risk our business operations may and recruitment fees, and the prohibition for any pose to individuals' RIGHTS in terms of severity Hilton property, product, or service from being used and likelihood, based on external research and in any manner that supports or enables any form experience. Our assessment identified the of abuse and exploitation. Those three documents following salient modern slavery risks: apply to Hilton Employees at our leased and 1. Operations: Hotel Team Members may be in managed hotels, and our corporate offices and are situations of forced or bonded labour. Hotels reviewed periodically. may be used by criminals to traffic victims for These documents are also made available to our sexual exploitation.

7 Franchisees and our business partners to educate 2. Supply chain: Individuals employed by Hilton them on Hilton 's business principles, and to hotels via a recruitment agency or a labour encourage them to develop similar policies and outsourcing agency, or by other goods or procedures for their own operations and to share services suppliers may be in a situation of those policies and procedures with their respective forced / bonded or child labour as a result of business partners. The Responsible Sourcing Policy a range of potential factors, from excessive is attached to all new contracts with suppliers and recruitment fees to inappropriate monitoring part of the contractual expectations, while the of workers' ages. HUMAN RIGHTS Principles are shared with all new 3. Development phase: Construction workers owners and referred to as part of the new country employed by owner-appointed contractors development mitigation plan brand standard.

8 May pose situations of forced / bonded or child labour as a result of a range of potential Additionally, all our HUMAN RIGHTS -related trainings, factors, from excessive recruitment fees, to guidance, tools and network of partners are restrictions on freedom of movement or failure available to franchises. We encourage them to leverage these resources through regular internal to monitor workers' ages. communications. We review these policies We identified potential higher vulnerability for periodically. certain groups across these areas, including HUMAN RIGHTS is managed by Hilton 's Corporate children, women and migrant workers. Responsibility team, in collaboration with the Legal That same year, we also conducted a mapping Compliance Department. Hilton 's HUMAN RIGHTS exercise of our global supply chain across a strategy is reviewed by an internal working group, range of economic, environmental, and social which brings together representatives of key risks, including HUMAN RIGHTS , based on external support functions, and is approved by the Executive indicators and spend.

9 We refreshed the analysis Committee representatives for Corporate Affairs in 2019, focusing on modern slavery issues, and and Legal. The responsibility for HUMAN RIGHTS identified the following categories for additional ultimately sits with the Global Head of Corporate attention: meat, seafood, produce, garments and Affairs, who sits on the Executive Committee. Our textile, and services. corporate responsibility priorities, including HUMAN We mapped all of our operating hotels and pipeline RIGHTS risks, strategy, policies, are reviewed by the countries against 11 external HUMAN RIGHTS risk Board annually. indices in both operations and supply chain, each updated annually. For example, the Modern Slavery Index assesses the risk to business in any industry of the possible association with or exposure to practices of slavery, servitude, trafficking in persons and forced labour by state and non-state contract obligations, the brand standards and the actors within its supply chain, as defined by Verisk- law.

10 Hilton 's Global ethics and Compliance team Maplecroft. Based on this analysis, we estimate 11 is responsible for ensuring all Hotline reports percent of Hilton -branded hotels are located in receive appropriate review and response. On a countries with higher risks of modern slavery in the quarterly basis, the Global ethics and Compliance supply chain (6 percent of those are managed and team provides confirmation to Hilton 's Board of 5 percent are franchised). This analysis informs the Directors and external auditors that all Hotline prioritization of our work, including the deployment reports have received appropriate treatment. The of tools and processes at managed hotels, and Global ethics and Compliance team also engages efforts to make such tools available for franchise in benchmarking to ensure the Hilton mechanism is business partners.


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