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| In closing, I'm very pleased with another quarter of record results |
| In closing our second quarter results demonstrate the effectiveness of our strategy, underscores the strength of our brands and highlights the performance of our talented colleagues around the world |
| As we look at the second half of 2023, while we recognize the Mexican peso could continue to be a headwind on operating costs and incentive fees, we're optimistic about the future given sustained strength of leisure travel demand and a favorable pricing environment |
| Record operating performance and asset-light growth are contributing to our strong free cash flow |
| And so we really feel great about the fact that we're finding that really good developers are great partners are actually finding access to capital |
| It's notable that second quarter comparable owned and leased margins remained strong at 27%, up nearly 300 basis points from the second quarter of 2019 for the same set of properties |
| For the fifth consecutive quarter, we posted record results demonstrating our unique positioning and continued momentum |
| Our operational and commercial teams continue to do an excellent job driving strong top line results with rates exceeding 4% compared to 2022 |
| And we feel really, really good about that |
| Our ongoing transformation has significant momentum and the second quarter results continue to reinforce our confidence in executing the strategy we outlined at our Investor Day in May |
| So we feel really good about both of these businesses |
| And as we look at -- we've reaffirmed our midpoint, because we feel really good about the rest of the year, given the sustained leisure travel demand that we're seeing and the group business that Mark had mentioned earlier, really being strong into the second half of the year |
| We've experienced meaningful growth doubling our luxury rooms, tripling our resort rooms and quadrupling our lifestyle rooms |
| That's helped to sustain some demand but it's also made the overall pricing capability of the hotel sector solid |
| The recovery in group and business transient travel coupled with sustained demand for leisure travel led to impressive RevPAR growth of 10% compared to the second quarter of 2022 |
| That's the result of the normalization of seasonality but we had unit net revenue growth of 10% because pricing is really strong and our mix is very weighted towards 5-Star versus 4-Star |
| So really, really encouraged to see that and think that that's going to persist in the foreseeable future |
| Our asset-light fee-driven model combined with industry-leading net rooms growth demonstrates our earnings strength and durability |
| The strength in these segments is driven by a powerful combination of the sustained demand of leisure travel, momentum from business transient travel and strong performance from group business |
| The journey to transform our earnings profile is well underway and we are confident in our ability to execute the strategy and achieve the long-term projections that we outlined at our Investor Day |
| The successful execution of our strategy has led to a significant growth of the World of Hyatt program, which added seven million new members in the past 12 months, an increase of 20% |
| Our Americas and EMEA regions continued their momentum with strong adjusted EBITDA in the quarter relative to 2022 |
| We're encouraged by the momentum in the region and believe it will continue to serve as a tailwind as international and regional flight capacity increases in the second half of the year |
| And the outlook for flight capacity is actually quite good |
| As Mark mentioned, our system-wide RevPAR in the second quarter was up 15% compared to the same period in 2022, or up 8% compared to the second quarter of 2019, fueled by strong rates and meaningful occupancy growth |
| Our management and franchising businesses benefited from our larger system size and more fully recovered RevPAR environment |
| We have seen the power of leveraging an effective distribution platform in a complementary segment with ALG vacations and we plan to enhance the value proposition for the owners of hotels represented on the Mr & Mrs Smith platform, while also expanding the choices for our members and guests |
| Third we successfully integrated Lindner Hotels in Europe and Dream Hotel Group into the World of Hyatt loyalty programs strengthening our lifestyle portfolio |
| We are reaffirming our expectations of net rooms growth of approximately 6% for the full year of 2023, driven by our strong pipeline and our ability to execute on conversion opportunities |
| In the quarter we generated a company record of total management franchise license and other fees in the quarter, of $248 million, an increase of 21% from the second quarter of 2022 driven by the continued success of our asset-light transformation and the continued global recovery we've experienced in the quarter |
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| Look, I think the first half of the year, first quarter especially was disrupted in the local and regional bank market by virtue of some of the failures that we saw right off of that in the first quarter and that did have some ripple effect |
| The first is it's a bit pp it's a more challenging environment right now primarily because of financing |
| So we had some FX headwinds |
| The US resorts have underperformed our all-inclusive hotels |
| So what we're seeing is and we still have some reasonable patterns left to book in 2023 second half, and although they're dwindling and 2024 and that's creating a lot of back pressure for associations |
| I would only add that one thing that we are keeping very close tabs on is the real estate the residential real estate activity which has seen a significant decline in activity over the last quarter |
| I think our -- the pace of growth given how extraordinary our recovery was in the second and third quarter of last year has come down |
| Having said that the international inbound still remains depressed or lower than 2019 |
| And that's really -- it's a customer mix issue that's driving that at this point |
| Last year, we reported in our third quarter earnings call, how extraordinary September turned out to be because, typically there's a break point after Labor Day, where you see a significant falloff in business, we saw none of that last year |
| So, those are -- if you just look at year-over-year comparisons and don't adjust for that, it will appear that we are down more significantly |
| So for the EBITDA guidance that we reaffirmed, I would say -- the one thing that's impacting the lack of raising that is the FX headwinds that we're seeing in the Mexican peso that I mentioned in my prepared remarks |
| And so overall F&B revenues in total are slightly down relative to 2019 even as rooms are basically fully recovered |
| Total fees remained flat at $36 million for the quarter due to headwinds from the Mexican peso, which strengthened 17% against the U.S |
| I mean, first of all, yes, we've seen openings of a number of hotels that were under construction and then new starts have slowed down |
| That's been one of the biggest alternative markets that filled in some decline in US sourced travelers into Cancun especially and Europe is the remainder |
| So we see a prioritization of travel and entertainment call that F&B and entertainment, despite the fact that there are some potential headwinds with respect to the residential real estate market in China |
| They're actually negative year-over-year |
| So if you look by segment, banking has been the one that's been off the most and that had to do mostly with the shock of the bank failures in the first quarter that had a carryover |
| And Europe has been on fire across the board |
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