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I'm Chris Hale joining me today from New York City.

Motley Full Senior Ann, let's bring you a call.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

Let's start with travel, shall we?

Booking holdings, the parent company of Prysline and booking.com.

A mixed second quarter, I think that's fair to say.

Revenue was a bit light.

Adjusted profits were higher than expected.

We can get into the CEO's comments in a minute, but in terms of the results for booking,

what stood out to you?

So, I think it's showing a pretty good picture for travel recovery in general in the US,

so their gross travel bookings were up 57%.

The room nights books were up 56%, which are both the highest quarterly amounts ever

for those metrics.

The room nights for quarter to surpass their 2019 levels for the first time.

Their customer's booked about 246 million room nights, which is up 16% from 2019.

So we are seeing this travel recovery, which I think is obviously important for booking,

but is also just in a more interesting macroeconomic way, something to look at.

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