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Journey Towards Sustainability: Trip.com Group Highlights ESG Progress & Key Actions in Latest Report

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Four-pillar ESG framework (community, family, environment, stakeholders) reaffirmedCompany-sponsored childcare subsidy benefits over 500 employeesTrip.Biz secures EcoVadis sustainability silver rating, surpassing 85% of global corporations participating in the same rating system

SINGAPORE, Aug. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Trip.com Group has published its annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report, outlining its actions to ensure progress towards a more sustainable future for the travel industry and creating positive long-term social impact.

Organised around its four key areas of focus (community, family, environment, stakeholder), the Group’s 5th ESG report reflects its activities over the last reporting period in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and reaffirms the priorities of its ESG framework.

 

Community Friendly

Trip.com Group’s community-friendly objectives aim to support rural prosperity and ensure traveller safety, including through partnerships with local communities and organisations. The Group’s key areas of focus include improving local employment opportunities, contributing to public welfare in key villages, empowering tourist villages at scale, and providing training for rural tourism professionals. The Group carries out these initiatives with a view to supporting the realisation of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, including goals such as ending poverty (SDG1) and promoting sustainable economic growth and decent work (SDG8).

With the goal of fostering local social and economic development, the Group continues to make mindful and active investments in the community, including through its engagement of nearly 100% of local suppliers for its Trip.com Country Retreat in China. The Group further seeks to ensure that the benefits generated by this economic activity contribute to the local community, including through the creation of 20,000 indirect jobs, and giving priority to the engagement of local talent.

Furthermore, Trip.com Group’s global travel SOS Service, which helps ensure global travel safety, has extended its coverage to over 440 million passengers, handling more than 20,000 requests, and achieving a resolution success rate of 98%.

Family Friendly 

Trip.com Group continues to work towards establishing itself as a leading family-friendly travel company, including through key initiatives aimed at supporting working parents. The company is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workspace through comprehensive and equitable employee welfare policies, designed to offer equal promotional and development opportunities for all, with an emphasis on empowering women.

The Group seeks to minimise the challenges faced by employees in balancing their professional and family lives, including by enhancing workplace benefits and creating a family-friendly environment. It also aims to implement a sound management system for a healthy working environment, in line with global standards.

In recent years, the Group has focused on promoting employee wellness through a hybrid work model, which has been implemented across 117 offices in 39 countries. The initiative has saved an estimated total of 900,000 hours of commuting time, and benefited 60% of families with children.

Trip.com Group takes pride in its strides towards gender diversity, equity, and inclusivity, as evidenced by its latest updates: Women comprise 57.5% of the workforce, accounting for 61.4% of entry-level roles, 43.5% of middle management positions, and 32.5% of senior roles. Over 60% of recently promoted senior managers were women with children.

Additionally, the company has successfully made its company-sponsored childcare subsidy available to 541 employees, with nearly 100% of female employees returning to work post-maternity leave.

Environmentally Focused 

Trip.com Group recognises the essential link between nature and people, which is at the heart of the travel experience. The Group firmly believes that it is a shared responsibility of the industry to protect the environment and strives to reduce its carbon footprint by offering global travellers lower-emission travel options.

In line with this objective, Trip.com Group joined the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) and aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Additionally, the Group also aims to introduce over 10,000 lower-carbon travel products, targeting 100 million travellers to consider adopting lower-carbon travel practices. These targets seek to elevate environmental consciousness among customers and employees.

As of 2023, progress includes providing additional lower-carbon travel products for consumers to choose from, such as flights with lower emissions and electric cars (more details can be found in our 2023 ESG report). Carbon data also covers 96% of flights, 56% of rental car services for leisure travel products, and 98% of transportation services for business travel products. Overall, Trip.com Group has provided over 72 million travellers with access to lower-emission travel alternatives.

Furthermore, Trip.com Group’s corporate travel division, Trip.Biz, achieved recognition by securing the EcoVadis Sustainability Silver rating, surpassing 85% of companies participating in the same rating system. Trip.Biz launched its carbon management products, allowing corporate clients to allocate carbon budget quotas for different departments. This reflects its dedication to allow for more business travellers to have greater options to travel more sustainably.

Stakeholder Friendly 

Trip.com Group remains dedicated to upholding transparent corporate governance, including through its engagement with stakeholders to ensure customer privacy and information security, while also promoting the adoption of greener options across the supply chain.

The Group actively encourages and supports suppliers in steering efforts towards more sustainable practices. It has also taken measures to ensure adherence to these principles in all aspects of its operations, including through the establishment of an ESG risk management committee in the last reporting year. It has also taken care to ensure company-wide awareness and compliance, including through security and privacy training, completed by 100% of employees, and averaging nearly 39 hours per person.

Through its ESG strategy, the Group aims to continue to deliver key actions, with a focus on adding value and enhancing the travel industry for all.

“Trip.com Group affirms its commitment to sustainable development through our ESG strategy, which prioritises the environment, communities, families and stakeholders, as well as our goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050,” said Trip.com Group CEO Jane Sun. “In line with our mission to enable millions of travellers to pursue the perfect trip for a better world, we remain focused on promoting sustainable tourism and providing a worry-free travel experience.”

“We are proud to collaborate with customers and partners to address the environmental, social and governance challenges of today, and we look forward to creating a future of shared growth together.”

For more information on Trip.com Group’s ESG report, please visit: https://investors.trip.com/about-the-company/esg/ 

About Trip.com Group

Trip.com Group is a leading global travel service provider comprising of Trip.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Across its platforms, Trip.com Group helps travellers around the world make informed and cost-effective bookings for travel products and services and enables partners to connect their offerings with users through the aggregation of comprehensive travel-related content and resources, and an advanced transaction platform consisting of apps, websites and 24/7 customer service centres. Founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003 and HKEX in 2021, Trip.com Group has become one of the best-known travel groups in the world, with the mission “to pursue the perfect trip for a better world”. Find out more about Trip.com Group here: group.trip.com.

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Fitterfly Healthtech and Ascensia Diabetes Care Launch a 21-Day Diabetes Management Program on World Diabetes Day

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MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — This World Diabetes Day, on 14th November, Fitterfly Healthtech and Ascensia Diabetes Care are joining hands to launch a complimentary 21-day Diabetes Management Program for Ascensia’s glucometer users. This initiative aims to make diabetes care simpler and more effective for people, offering them personalised support, expert guidance, and easy-to-use tools.

For many, managing diabetes can feel overwhelming. Even with the right tools, knowing where to start can be challenging and confusing. That’s why this 21-day program is designed to help users get started on a wellness journey and build lasting habits, as 21 days is the time it takes to set a habit. By simply scanning a QR code on the warranty page of Ascensia’s glucometer, users can join the Fitterfly program and access diet plans, a 24/7 AI wellness coach, group sessions with diabetes experts, glucose tracking and insights, food diary tracking, assessments, and more. With each step, this structured support brings confidence and clarity, helping users feel truly in control of their health.

Albertraj Balraj, Country Head and Director at Ascensia Diabetes Care India Pvt Ltd., commented, “Glucometers and Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose (SMBG) play an important role in effective blood sugar monitoring. Through this partnership, we aim to offer people a 360° solution by combining our world-class glucometer with Fitterfly’s advanced tools and expert support to make diabetes management truly simple for everyone. We want people to approach diabetes care with confidence and without fear.”

Dr Arbinder Singal, CEO & co-founder of Fitterfly Healthtech, added, “Lifestyle management remains the first line of therapy for type 2 diabetes. Our collaboration with Ascensia makes it easy for people to take control of their health and get started on a journey to lower their blood sugar sustainably. By linking their glucometer to our Fitterfly app, users can track their readings, gain insights, and learn to manage diabetes with ease.”

This partnership is a true example of two brands joining forces to reduce the diabetes burden in the country.

To know more about Fitterfly’s Diabetes Programs, visit Fitterfly.

About Fitterfly

Fitterfly is a leading Indian healthtech company specialising in digital therapeutic programs for managing diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Co-founded in 2016 by Dr Arbinder Singal and Shailesh Gupta, the Mumbai-based company employs over 200 professionals, including doctors, nutritionists, fitness experts, and technologists. Fitterfly aims to improve metabolic health by focusing on conditions like prediabetes, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and heart disease. Fitterfly has significantly contributed to health technology research, publishing over 80 papers and winning numerous awards, including the Economic Times Healthtech Startup of the Year 2022. Fitterfly has raised $16.6 million in funding, with its last round in June 2022 led by Amazon with support from Fireside Ventures, 9 Unicorns, and Venture Catalysts.

About Ascensia Diabetes Care

Ascensia Diabetes Care is a global company focused entirely on helping people with diabetes. Our mission is to empower those living with diabetes through innovative solutions that simplify and improve their lives. We are home to the world-renowned CONTOUR® portfolio of blood glucose monitoring systems and the exclusive global distribution partner for the Eversense® Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems from Senseonics. Ascensia is a member of PHC Group and was established in 2016 through the acquisition of Bayer Diabetes Care by PHC Holdings Corporation. Ascensia products are sold in more than 100 countries. Ascensia has around 1,400 employees and operations in 29 countries. For further information, please visit the Ascensia Diabetes Care website at www.ascensia.com.

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Eco-documentary A Chorus of Frogs officially launched

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NANJING, China, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, the ecological documentary A Chorus of Frogs produced by Nanjing Newspaper Media Group was officially launched. The film told the story of Wang Ningjing, a post-95s Nanjing girl, who returned to the countryside to find the Chinese immaculate treefrog and shoot a documentary.

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Wang Ningjing, the post-95s generation from Nanjing, is currently studying wildlife filmmaking in the UK. Professor Borzée Amaël from Nanjing Forestry University, who grew up in Madagascar, has been researching treefrogs over ten years.

Unlike most girls who like fairy tales, Wang has been passionate about creature and nature since childhood. Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo, not far from her home, was a place she often visited as a child.

“I see one. Is that it？……That one on the wheat. So beautiful!” The species’ breeding season is May and June. During this period, Professor Amaël conducted regular field surveys to locate populations of the treefrog, known for its unique calls that can be heard from a distance. The documentary began with Wang listening to the calls of the treefrog in the fields at night.

A Chorus of Frogs is positioned as an ecological and humanistic documentary. By following Wang Ningjing and Amer to explore the traces of the Chinese immaculate treefrog, it vividly tells the story of people and frogs.

Chinese path to modernization has the distinctive features of respecting nature, following its laws and protect it as well as promoting harmony between humans and nature. The harmonious coexistence between human and the environment is important not only to China but to the world as well.

Where does the Chinese immaculate treefrog go? I believe everyone will find their own answer after watching.

Nanjing Newspaper Media Group, a state-owned media group in Nanjing City, was established on December 17, 2002 with the approval from the National Press and Publication Administration. In recent years, the group has seized strategic opportunities for media convergence to develop a new type of mainstream media based on the Internet. Fully committed to mobile first, it has accelerated the establishment of all-media communication system. The group’s flagship brand, Zijinshan Video, focuses on short video creation, particularly the production of documentaries. It currently has more than 65 million followers across all platforms.

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Avathon Partners with CP PLUS, Largest CCTV Manufacturer in India, to Enhance Public Safety while Strengthening Community Bonds

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PLEASANTON, Calif., Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Avathon, provider of the leading AI platform for industrial operations, has partnered with CP PLUS, one of the largest manufacturers of CCTV cameras, to create safer, more connected societies by bundling Avathon’s computer vision technology with each camera. The companies are bringing Avathon’s computer vision AI capabilities to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across India, turning their cameras into intelligent assets that enable more secure workplaces, factories and facilities.           

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s hard to keep an eye on every single detail, every minute of the day. Computer vision AI technology gives users the freedom and control to go about their daily lives knowing they will receive proactive alerts identifying safety and security issues in real time.

“Increasing demand for advanced public safety tools, smart home devices and integrated AI-powered cameras is fueling massive industry growth,” said Aditya Khemka, Managing Director, CP PLUS, a subsidiary of Aditya Group. “Our partnership with Avathon will help us to better deliver state-of-the-art AI-powered solutions that feature advanced functions like real-time anomaly detection and intelligent monitoring.”

Avathon’s computer vision AI automatically detects and alerts unsafe conditions and incidents in real time, allowing users to proactively take the right actions. Avathon enables business owners using valuable resources to monitor CCTV camera feeds to get back to focusing on operations. The company partners with OEM camera manufacturers by providing AI technology that enables end customers to quickly and accurately address processes, behaviors, and conditions that cause unacceptable risk. Through its partnership with CP PLUS, Avathon has democratized this technology, giving access to large organizations and small businesses alike.

CP PLUS is India’s leading surveillance brand with the most extensive portfolio in the entire global industry. Representing a major share of the Indian CCTV market, CP PLUS offers a range of products and services to meet the varied needs of government, commercial, residential, and industrial customers and its products are successfully deployed in every nook and corner of India and many countries across verticals and industry.

“AI cameras are paving the path forward in India toward smart-city initiatives and enhanced public safety improvements. In this sometimes disconnected world, it’s comforting to rely on a technology that instantly alerts users to potential dangers and other anomalies,” said Pervinder Johar, CEO of Avathon. “We’re proud to partner with CP PLUS to provide the AI innovations needed to push India to the leading edge of technological advancement.”

About Avathon

Avathon, a leader in Industrial AI, extends the life of critical infrastructure while advancing the journey toward full autonomy. Avathon’s Industrial AI platform empowers commercial and government customers with scalable, secure, and value-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and resilience across heavy industry.

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Jon Ross
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Avathon
jross@avathon.com

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