SEC Comment Letter for Trip.com Group Ltd (TCOM, TRPCF) (CIK 0001269238) (TCOM) — Jun 10, 2019
Trip.com Group Ltd (TCOM, TRPCF) (CIK 0001269238)
Date: June 10, 2019 · CIK: 0001269238 · Accession: 0000000000-19-009631
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File numbers found in text: 001-33853
Referenced dates: September 23, 2016
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June 10, 2019
Cindy Xiaofan Wang
Chief Financial Officer
Ctrip.com International, Ltd.
968 Jin Zhong Road
Shanghai 200335
People's Republic of China
Re:Ctrip.com International, Ltd.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2018
Filed March 15, 2019
File No. 001-33853
Dear Ms. Wang:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2018
Operating and Financial Review and Prospects
Results of Operations, page 56
1.We note you quantify the number of MAUs and transacting users during your fourth
quarter earnings call. You also disclose here and in your earnings call that increases in
accommodation reservation volume, ticket volume, and volume growth of organized tours
and self-guided tours were drivers of accommodation, transportation ticketing, and
packaged-tour revenue growth. Please tell us what consideration was given to quantifying
key performance measures for each period presented in order to add context to your
discussion of period-over-period changes in revenue. We refer you to Section III. B. of
SEC Release No. 33-8350.
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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 2. Principal Accounting Policies
Revenue recognition, page F-22
2.We note that you recognize commission revenue from hotel reservations when the
reservation becomes non-cancellable. Please describe your cancellation provisions and
explain why they impact the timing of revenue recognition. Refer to ASC 606-10-32-5.
In this regard, cancellations should impact the transaction price but would not impact the
timing of revenue recognition. As part of your response, please describe the nature of the
promise you provide to the hotel and describe any post booking services you provide and
how they are factored into your revenue recognition.
3.You disclose that incentive commissions are recognized when they are reasonably
assured. Tell us how this policy is consistent with ASC 606 which indicates that estimates
of variable consideration should be included in the transaction price. Refer to ASC 606-
10-32-5 through 32-7 and ASC 606-10-50-20.
Segment reporting, page F-28
4.You disclose that you do not present information by geography because you primarily
generate revenue from end users in the Great China Area. However, in your earnings
release furnished on March 5, 2019 you indicate that international business makes up 30%
to 35% of the group level revenue and that international hotel and air ticketing business
units tripled the industry growth. Tell us how this impacted your consideration of the
requirement under ASC 280-10-50-41 to disclose revenue from both domestic and foreign
sources.
General
5.In a letter to the staff dated September 23, 2016, you discussed selling tickets for flights to
Sudan. Currently, your website offers flights serving and hotel bookings in Sudan and
Syria. Additionally, your website appears to offer tours of North Korea that include
flights from China to North Korea. North Korea, Sudan and Syria are designated by the
Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism, and are subject to U.S. economic
sanctions and/or export controls.
Please describe to us the nature and extent of your past, current, and anticipated contacts
with North Korea, and any such contacts with Sudan and Syria since your 2016 letter,
including contacts with their governments, whether through subsidiaries, affiliates,
partners or other direct or indirect arrangements. Please also discuss the materiality of
those contacts, in quantitative terms and in terms of qualitative factors that a reasonable
investor would deem important in making an investment decision. Tell us the
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approximate dollar amounts of revenues, assets and liabilities associated with those
countries for the last three fiscal years and the subsequent interim period. Address for us
the potential impact of the investor sentiment evidenced by divestment and similar
initiatives that have been directed toward companies that have operations associated with
U.S.-designated state sponsors of terrorism.
In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
You may contact Frank Knapp, Staff Accountant at (202) 551-3805 or Christine Dietz,
Assistant Chief Accountant at (202) 551-3408 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Information Technologies
and Services
cc: Julie Gao