OUR BUSINESS AND STRUCTURE
A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd, which includes Abercrombie & Kent, Crystal Cruises, Ecoventura and Cox & Kings, has been helping travellers explore and discover for over 60 years. We have more than 55 offices in over 30 countries and a global headcount of more than 3,000 individuals. Unlike most luxury travel operators, who rely entirely on third-party companies abroad, A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd operates the world’s largest network of luxury Destination Management Companies (DMCs), ensuring a seamless holiday experience with unparalleled level of service and safety throughout your holiday.
OUR SUPPLY CHAIN
Due to A&K Travel Group Holding Ltd’s global reach, we contract with suppliers worldwide. These suppliers include accommodation providers, cruise ships, transport companies, excursion providers and group operators selling holidays.
OUR POLICIES ON SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
We believe that tourism should be a force for good. We are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business. Our Anti-Slavery Policy reflects our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our supply chains.
Philanthropy has been an integral part of Abercrombie & Kent since its founding, and today, A&K Philanthropy (AKP) partners with more than 40 local grassroots projects that positively impact lives and livelihoods in the communities where A&K Travel Group Holding Ltd’s guests travel.
DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES FOR SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
As part of our initiative to identify and mitigate risk we have in place systems to:
SUPPLIER ADHERENCE TO OUR VALUES
We have zero tolerance for slavery and human trafficking and work to ensure that all those in our supply chain comply with the values we have in place. Our supplier agreements throughout A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd contain anti-slavery and human trafficking provisions and require our suppliers to warrant compliance with the applicable laws. In addition, suppliers are contractually obliged to carry out full and comprehensive due diligence on any agency which they use for employing staff and a review of each employee to ensure that they are not a victim of modern slavery or human trafficking.
We have worked together with our third-party suppliers to identify and establish an audit process which is undertaken with suppliers to check what actions they are taking to ensure they meet our standards on anti-slavery and human trafficking.
TRAINING
To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our supply chains and our business, we provide training to our staff. We also audit whether our business partners provide training to their staff, suppliers and providers.
A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd has a policy on anti-slavery which applies globally to all entities within the A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd group of companies and all persons working for Abercrombie & Kent or on our behalf, be that in any capacity. This internal policy sets out our stance on modern slavery and explains how our employees can identify instances of this, where they can go for help and what processes and procedures A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd have in place to address the risk of modern slavery. We also provide training specifically on this internal policy to our staff regularly and as necessary to those who deal with third parties in our supply chain.
A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd also has a whistleblowing procedure in place for all group employees, which provides them with the capability to report any issues which concern regarding to the operations of A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd, on a confidential basis if they choose.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes A&K Travel Group Holdings Ltd’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2024.
By order of the board.
Cristina Levis
Chief Executive Officer