NYSE:PK Park Hotels & Resorts Q1 2025 Earnings Report $10.59 -0.21 (-1.94%) As of 05/20/2025 03:58 PM Eastern Earnings HistoryForecast Park Hotels & Resorts EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.46Consensus EPS $0.41Beat/MissBeat by +$0.05One Year Ago EPS$0.52Park Hotels & Resorts Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$630.00 millionExpected Revenue$620.17 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$9.83 millionYoY Revenue Growth-1.40%Park Hotels & Resorts Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2025Date5/5/2025TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateMonday, May 5, 2025Conference Call Time10:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsPark Hotels & Resorts' Q2 2025 earnings is scheduled for Wednesday, July 30, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Park Hotels & Resorts Q1 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 5, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings, and welcome to the Park Hotels and Resorts First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:00:28As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:32It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to your host, Ian Weissman, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy. Operator00:00:38Ian, please go ahead. Ian WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts00:00:40Thank you, operator, and welcome, everyone, to the Park Hotels and Resorts first quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that many of the comments made today are considered forward looking statements under federal securities laws. As described in our filings with the SEC, these statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause future results to differ from those expressed, and we are not obligated to publicly update or revise these forward looking statements. Actual future performance, outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in forward looking statements. Please refer to the documents filed by Park with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports on Forms 10 ks and 10 Q, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward looking statements. Ian WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts00:01:36In addition, on today's call, we will discuss certain non GAAP financial information such as FFO and adjusted EBITDA. You can find this information together with reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure in this morning's earnings release as well as in our eight ks filed with the SEC and the supplemental financial information available on our website at pkhotelsandresorts.com. Additionally, unless otherwise stated, all operating results will be presented on a comparable basis. This morning, Tom Baltimore, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will provide a review of Park's first quarter performance and strategic initiatives as well as update on our 2025 outlook. Sean DeLorto, our Chief Financial Officer, will provide additional color on first quarter results and 2025 guidance. Ian WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts00:02:33Following our prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Tom. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:02:41Thank you, Ian, and welcome, everyone. I'm pleased to report that we delivered better than expected performance in the first quarter with RevPAR essentially flat despite a tough comparison to last year, when our portfolio significantly outperformed in almost every market, resulting in nearly 8% RevPAR growth compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty three. Our Bonnet Creek complex in Orlando and Casa Marina Resort in Key West continued to lead the portfolio following their transformative renovations, with first quarter RevPAR increasing by 1412% respectively. And we were very pleased to see broad based strength in several of our core markets, with Miami, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Washington DC, and San Francisco reporting above industry average RevPAR gains. Results from our Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, which continues to recover from the labor strike last fall, offset these gains, causing a four twenty basis point drag on our first quarter results. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:03:58From a capital allocation perspective, it was another productive quarter, as we remain laser focused on allocating capital to unlock the embedded value in our portfolio and maximize shareholder returns. We initiated over $80,000,000 of capital improvements during the quarter, while we plan to execute the second phase of renovations at both of our Hawaii hotels during the third quarter, alongside with the second phase of main tower guest room renovations at the Hilton, New Orleans Riverside. We're also excited to announce the upcoming $100,000,000 transformative renovation of the Royal Palm South Beach, Miami. With the hotel having recently suspended operations, construction is expected to begin within the next few weeks. The renovation will include a complete refurbishment of all three ninety three guest rooms, along with the addition of 11 new rooms. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:05:01All public spaces will be reimagined, including a new lobby bar, reconcepted food and beverage outlets, and expanded meeting spaces designed to enhance the overall guest experience. Forecasted returns are in excess of 15% to 20%, with the expectation of doubling the hotel's EBITDA once stabilized. In 2025, we expect to invest a total of $310,000,000 to $330,000,000 on capital improvements as we continue to reinvest in our iconic portfolio with the confidence that we can generate higher development yields compared to acquisition yields. We also achieved a major milestone in the entitlements process for the planned five fifteen room tower and related campus expansion at Hilton Hawaiian Village. In mid April, the City Council of Honolulu approved our discretionary entitlement applications for the project, subject to certain conditions which we expect to be able to satisfy. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:06:12We also expect to receive final administrative approval of the project by the end of this year. Additionally, given the historically wide disconnect between public and private market valuations, we remain active in repurchasing shares during the quarter at a material discount to net asset value, having bought back approximately 3,500,000.0 shares for a total purchase price of $45,000,000 and approximately 11,500,000.0 shares over the past year. Finally, despite a very challenging transaction market, we continue to make progress toward our strategic initiative of selling 300 to $400,000,000 of non core hotels this year. We have several assets in various stages of the marketing and disposition process, including a pending sale of a non core hotel at very attractive pricing. However, given the current market uncertainty, we make no assurances as to whether or when the transaction will close. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:07:19As a reminder, since 2017, we have sold or disposed of 45 hotels for over $3,000,000,000 an effort that has materially reshaped our portfolio and strengthened our long term growth path. Turning to operations. We are very pleased with the performance of our Bonnet Creek complex in Orlando, following our $220,000,000 comprehensive renovation and meeting space expansion project. Results for the complex continue to come in well ahead of expectations, with a 32% RevPAR increase in Q1 at the Waldorf Astoria, driven in large part by a surge in transient revenues of nearly 65%, while the hotel grew market share by nearly 30%. Looking ahead, the outlook for our Orlando hotels remains very strong, with group revenue pace up 9%, while the overall market is expected to witness tailwinds from the opening of Universal's new Epic Theme Park, which is anticipated to accelerate leisure transient demand into the market after its expected opening this May. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:08:39EBITDA for the complex is currently forecasted to exceed $90,000,000 in 2025, a $30,000,000 increase over 2023. In Key West, Casa Marina delivered another strong quarter with RevPAR up 12%, driven by a six eighty basis point increase in occupancy and nearly 4% growth in ADR, despite lapping an impressive first quarter performance last year when RevPAR growth was over 34% compared to 2023. The hotel also continued to outperform its competitive set, posting a RevPAR index above 112. At the REACH, RevPAR held steady year over year, following a 7% increase in the first quarter of last year over 2023. The hotel continued to outperform, achieving an impressive RevPAR index of 119, exceeding its competitive set in March by nearly 300 basis points in occupancy and nearly $100 in rate. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:09:52As we move through the second quarter, we are seeing continued solid performance from both Key West properties, with RevPAR expected to trend up low single digits fueled by Castle Marina's continued momentum, strong group booking patterns, and the favorable timing of the Easter holiday shift into April. Turning to Hawaii. RevPAR across our two properties declined by 15% during the quarter, as our Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel continues to ramp up following the labor strike in Q4. Marginally softer inbound travel from abroad also weighed on results, with arrivals from Japan down 6% and Canada down 1.5%. However, we were very encouraged that US domestic visitation remained flat year over year, supported by increased airlift from major US carriers, including new domestic routes into Honolulu, announced by both Delta and American earlier this year, which continues to drive healthy inbound travel from the Mainland. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:11:06At our Hilton Waikoloa Village Hotel on the Big Island, RevPAR declined just 2.5% during the quarter, while Q2 RevPAR growth is expected to accelerate to mid single digit range, driven by the nearly 90% increase in group revenue pace during the quarter. Additionally, we continue to see benefits from our recent capital investments at both of our Hawaii hotels. At Hilton Hawaiian Village, we completed phase one of the Rainbow Tower renovation in February, which included a full upgrade of three ninety two guest rooms in the addition of 12 new guest rooms. At Waikoloa Village, phase one of the Palace Tower renovation was finalized, upgrading 197 guest rooms and expanding the inventory with six new guest rooms. We were pleased to see meaningful rate premiums of 25% to 30% for the renovated rooms at both resorts in the first quarter, a clear reflection of the quality and impact of the investments made at both resorts. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:12:20We plan to kick off the final phase of both the Rainbow Tower and Palace Tower guest room renovations during the third quarter, with the project extending into early next year. Looking ahead, the long term outlook for Hawaii remains very favorable, supported by limited new supply expected through at least 2029, and the anticipated improvement of inbound travel from Japan as the dollar yen exchange rate normalizes. Hawaii is one of the most dynamic and resilient resort markets in the country, with over 3,500 fee simple guest rooms at a huge discount to replacement cost, Park remains well positioned to deliver above average long term growth for shareholders. With respect to fundamentals over the balance of the year, the near term outlook for US lodging fundamentals remains uncertain, as the ongoing global trade war continues to delay decision making and amplify geopolitical tensions, causing booking windows across most segments to narrow significantly, and disrupting cross border leisure travel. April results have been mixed, with preliminary RevPAR growth of 1.6%, driven by double digit gains in New York, Orlando, and San Francisco, which benefited from exceptionally strong group trends, while preliminary RevPAR in Puerto Rico increased by 25%, offset by weaker performance in Hawaii, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, and Washington DC. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:14:19Despite the modest decline in a select few markets, we continue to see pockets of strength in many of our resort and urban hotels. While concerns persist about a significant slowdown in both international and government related demand, neither has had a meaningful impact on our performance. International demand represents just 10% of total room nights, while government related business accounts were only 3% of overall room nights. Based on our current forecast, Q2 RevPAR growth is expected to be relatively flat year over year, or approximately two ninety basis points lower than initial forecast, with Hilton Hawaiian Village representing roughly 80% of the reduction. Despite ongoing macro uncertainty, we remain laser focused on factors within our control, and continue to work closely with our operators as they develop contingency plans for managing operating expenses in the event of further demand softening. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:15:32Additionally, while the transaction market remains episodic, we will remain prudent capital allocators, advancing our strategic objective of selling non core hotels to further deleverage the balance sheet and support our robust ROI pipeline. Sean will provide greater details about guidance in his remarks. Overall, I am incredibly proud of the progress we've made in elevating the overall quality of our portfolio, positioning the company for sustained long term growth, and returning capital to shareholders. Our targeted capital investments are delivering strong results, reinforcing the overall quality of our portfolio and the significant embedded value within our real estate. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Sean. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:16:30Thanks, Tom. Overall, are pleased with our first quarter results with Q1 RevPAR exceeding expectations with reported results of 178 representing a modest 70 basis point decline over the prior year period. Difficult year over year comparisons were the primary driver of the decline following last year's nearly 8% growth rate with occupancy falling by two ten basis points during the quarter, although offset by continued rate strength with ADR up over 2.3%. Total hotel revenues for the quarter were $6.00 $8,000,000 and hotel adjusted EBITDA was $151,000,000 resulting in a nearly 25% hotel adjusted EBITDA margin. Total expenses were up 3.3 during the quarter with the majority of the increase related to nearly $10,000,000 of employment tax credits and other relief grants received in Q1 of last year. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:17:23Excluding these items, total comparable operating expenses increased just 1% over the prior year period. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $144,000,000 and adjusted FFO per share was $0.46 With respect to our dividend, on April 15, we paid our first quarter cash dividend of $0.25 per share. And on April 25, we declared our second quarter cash dividend of $0.25 per share to be paid on July 15 to stockholders of record as of June 30. The dividend currently translates to an annualized yield of approximately 10%. Turning to guidance, as we navigate the increasingly complex global economic landscape and evaluate the impact of the escalated trade war on global travel, we have revised our full year outlook to reflect a modest slowdown in demand. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:18:13As a result, we are lowering our RevPAR growth forecast by 100 basis points at the midpoint to a new range of negative 1% to positive 2%, maintaining a wider than normal range to account for the ongoing uncertainty. Note that most of this adjustment reflects a slower than expected recovery at Hilton Hawaiian Village, coupled with modestly weaker transient demand over the next quarter or two. Hilton Hawaiian Village, along with the overall portfolio, will benefit from easier year over year comparisons in November and December following last year's labor strike there and in a few of our other markets. This along with an 18% increase in Q4 group revenue pace for the portfolio should help to support low to mid single digit RevPAR gains during the fourth quarter. With respect to earnings, we are lowering our adjusted EBITDA forecast by just 3% at the midpoint to a new range of $590,000,000 to $650,000,000 while hotel adjusted EBITDA margin range is now 25.6% to 27.2%, or down just 50 basis points from our initial range. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:19:18And finally, adjusted FFO per share is reduced by $0.11 at the midpoint to a new range of $1.79 to $2.09 per share. Additionally, as a reminder and included in our original guidance, renovation related displacement at the Royal Palm South Beach Hotel is expected to reduce RevPAR growth by approximately 110 basis points for the year. This concludes our prepared remarks. We will now open the line for Q and A. To address each of your questions, we will ask that you limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:19:49Operator, may we have the first question, please? Operator00:19:52Certainly. We'll now be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question today is coming from Floris Van Dykem from Compass Point. Your line is now live. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:20:19Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:20:21Good morning. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:20:23Tom, maybe if you could comment a little bit on the planned asset sales and how Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:20:30the current market environments and of being able to achieve decent prices as well as having willing buyers? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:20:39Yes, it's a great question, Floris. Look, we've got tremendous uncertainty right now for all the reasons that we all know, geopolitical, obviously, the tariffs, obviously leading to trade wars and uncertainty is the enemy of decision making. I think for many business leaders, men and women, they're probably hesitant, they're probably pausing in many situations and certainly being cautious. No difference than what certainly we're seeing and probably a lot of our peers, hence the reason that I think everybody has been sort of a little more cautious on forward guidance. I would say that this team has really separated itself in being able to transact even under the worst of circumstances. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:21:30If you think back since the spin, as we pointed out, we have sold or disposed of 45 hotels, including 14 international for north of 3,000,000,000 We do have one asset under contract, very attractive pricing. And look, we are cautiously optimistic, but we're not going to comment and give any details until it closes, we just think that's the prudent thing to do. But we also have a number of other assets that are at various stages of the marketing process. There's plenty of liquidity, there's plenty of equity capital, there's plenty of debt capital. And if I'm a small family office, owner operator, mid sized PE firm, these periods of dislocation I think can be a really unique opportunity to certainly buy assets. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:22:24So we are being very targeted. We're being very focused and I think we've again demonstrated every year that we've been able to sell assets. We've raised the bar a little higher this year, but we're still working our butts off to get as many sales done this year as we can. We are confident that we will achieve our objectives. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:22:47Thanks, Tom. Maybe in my follow-up, maybe if you can comment a Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:22:50little bit more on Hawaii. Obviously RevPAR was down I think 15% in the quarter. You said it dragged for the overall Hawaii village was a four twenty basis point drag on overall results. How is the ramp of the obviously the strike disruption in the fourth quarter, but also the renovations that have just occurred. How quickly will it ramp up in your view? Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:23:14And how dependent are you on the international tourists for some of that ramp? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:23:22Well, listen, ramp is taking a little longer as we come out of the strike. Obviously, the strike was forty five days. It certainly had an impact and we are seeing sequentially improvement. I mean, we were down obviously Hilton Hawaiian Village about 15%, obviously in the excuse me, 18% in Q1. As we look at April, we're down about 7% and we're probably going to be down we think for the quarter probably high single digit, low double digit. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:23:57So certainly seeing improvement there. Feel very good about third quarter, probably mid single digit positive as we think about RevPAR and as Sean pointed out in his remarks, we've got really favorable and easy comp in Q4. So overall, we think it's going to be a solid performer long term intermediate and long term. Floris, we could not be more confident about any market than Hawaii just given the limited supply growth, given the historic nature of the market where it is its RevPAR growth rate has outpaced The U. S. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:24:37By 120 basis points over the last twenty years. So feel very good about it over the intermediate and long term. As it relates to the renovations, we've been very strategic, very thoughtful about it. Karl Mayfield and his team on our design and construction are best in class, best in the industry. And so we think there's really minimal disruption, particularly since you're lapping disruption from the previous year as we're completing and carefully phasing and staging our renovations there. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:25:10And we don't have any issues in terms of supplies. We have what we need and are confident that we'll be able to get them done sort of one time, one budget as I think we've done as well as anybody in this sector, particularly given the nature of our portfolio. Operator00:25:33Thank you. Next question is coming from David Katz from Jefferies. Your line is now live. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:25:39Hey, Hey, good morning, everybody. Thanks for taking my question. Look, I wanted to just follow-up on the prior conversation about asset sales, and the market will be what it will be. But it does look like you've sort of trimmed your core hotels to a smaller number, right? 25 to 20, if I'm seeing that correctly. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:26:05Maybe we should just talk about that and sort of what's going on with the five and sort of how we're thinking about that change, please. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:26:18Yes, it's a great question, David. We have as a team, again back to the earlier comment I made, we have worked our tails off and I know you know this and really looking to reshape the portfolio based on additional work and as we've looked at capital allocation, where do we want to be allocating capital, it's really those top 20 assets that really account for about 8590% of the value of the company. And so we've made the decision that those are the core assets, the other remaining assets we want to work really hard to recycle that capital to sell those assets and take those proceeds and pay down debt, reinvest in strategic ROI projects as we're talking about in Hawaii and New Orleans and obviously Miami. And then obviously in periods of dislocation, be prepared to buy back stock. And look, we have bought back 26,500,000.0 shares over the last two point five years. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:27:22So I think we've been as prudent as anybody from a capital allocation standpoint and very confident in those 20 hotels being sort of our core and then working as aggressively as we can to sell the non core. And that can be different combinations. You saw in Oakland last year, non performing difficult market, we closed the hotel. You've seen other situations, there are short term ground leases. We'll work to figure out a solution for those situations. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:27:52But we really want to get the core portfolio down to those core 20 hotels where the real embedded value of the company lies. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:28:04Understood. And if I can just follow-up quickly with respect to the CapEx that's planned, notably Miami, which is important over the course of a year, it seems to me that you've sort of embarked on that. Maybe you could talk about how much of that cost is really sort of and timing is sort of locked in at this point, just given the limited visibility in the marketplace? Thank you. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:28:31Yes, it's another great question, David. I would say, and you heard me make this the earlier comment, you've been down, you've seen obviously what we've done in Orlando with the Bonnet Creek and how well that's performing and the complexity of that. And I say this respectfully, there's not another team in the lodging REIT landscape that has that experience and has that ability to be able to handle it. Miami, this is what we do. Carl Mayfield and the team have studied this situation carefully over the last year. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:29:09We've bought out many of the subs, we have the GC, we have the permits, we have suspended operations, we will be preparing and fencing around and we're confident that we will deliver before June of next year for the World Cups and we're excited. I mean this is a complete transformation of guest rooms, public space, lobby, the pool area, food and beverage outlets. And we think obviously as we've said, we think there's a great opportunity not only for 15% to 2025% unlevered returns, but the ability to really double EBITDA as well. And in a market where you've got such high end, the Aubert's coming, Rosewood, the Amman, the Andaz obviously will open at some point and the ability for us to tuck underneath that and be able to really significantly increase rates and given the quality of that location, Mid Beach, right next to the Lowe's, we're really excited about this project as we move forward. We realize there's some near term disruption, but we think for intermediate and long term and for real value creation for shareholders, it's the right decision for us to make. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:30:32We also believe passionately that we can deliver higher development yields than we can acquisition yields and that really plays to our strength as a team. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:30:45Appreciate it. Thanks very much. Good luck. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:30:48Thank you. Operator00:30:50Thank you. Our next question today is coming from Duane Pfennigwerth from Evercore ISI. Your line is now live. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:30:57Hey, Duane. Duane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISI00:30:58Hey, good morning. Just wonder if you could give us your updated views on markets that you expect to lead this year and the underlying demand drivers and correspondingly the markets that you expect will lag in your portfolio? And has that pecking order changed since one quarter ago? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:31:23Well, look, we've talked about Hawaii. We think obviously Hawaii is going to continue to ramp up the Hilton Hawaiian Village obviously is on that given the post strike. Hilton Waikoloa, we still are very bullish on that. We've obviously got a significant increase in group business there. What's happening in Orlando and the double digit increase that we've seen at Bonnet Creek, we expect that's obviously going to continue to be a really strong performer. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:31:53Key West, obviously, again, given the transformative renovations there and what we're doing and how well they did last year, we still continue to be very encouraged. New York City, I mean New York is up April 16%, seventeen % and we feel good about it in the second quarter Obviously, you've had very little supply added in New York and continue to be cautiously optimistic there. Caribe has been on fire and continues to perform very well for us there. We're expecting obviously Denver given the management changes that we've made there, certainly to see sequential improvement there as we sort of look out. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:32:39So we're overall, if you think about the first quarter, taking out Hilton Hawaiian Village from that standpoint and given the tough comp, I mean, would have been obviously a very strong nearly 4% increase RevPAR for us. Given the fact that we've been so disciplined and I give a huge credit to our asset management team, to Sean's leadership as well as we look on the cost side. I mean, we were up about 3.3% in expenses, but when you take out the one time anomalies, we were only up about one a little over 1%. So I mean, it's not just the top line in those markets, but it's the discipline as well on the cost side. And so I think we've done a really good job on that front and you'll see that kind of energy and effort to continue as we move forward. Duane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISI00:33:32Thanks, Tom. And if I could just follow-up on one of those on New York. There's been so much intense media focus on potentially softer international inbound, less Canadian travel, etcetera. And so what do you think some of that media might be missing in terms of demand drivers to a market like New York? And thanks for taking the questions. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:33:58Yes. Listen, New York, one of the great cities of the world as we all know and there's no doubt when you think about the frustration, the energy around the tariffs right now, are going to be some. Obviously, we saw a little bit of decline in the Japanese coming into Hawaii. That's still ramping up, but still certainly still a little over 50% below where we were in 2019. International accounts for about 10% of our business overall. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:34:30If you think about pre pandemic inbound into The U. S. Was about $79,000,000 I think we're back to somewhere between $142,000,000 About half of that comes from Canada and Mexico. Mexico has been pretty consistent. It hasn't seen a fall off. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:34:51You've seen a little bit of fall off in Canada and we're all hopeful just given the strong alliance and relationship that that will get resolved and that will sort of resume. But certainly in the near term that is a little dilutive. But again for us, it's less than 2%. So it's really not that significant to Park and into our portfolio. Duane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISI00:35:17You. Operator00:35:20Thank you. Next question today is coming from Patrick Scholes from Truist Securities. Your line is now live. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:35:26Thank you, operator. Hi, good morning everyone. Question for you on the group pace. On the prior earnings release, it had been tracking six, now it's one plus one for the year. I'm wondering if you can kind of give us an apples to apples for 2Q to 4Q. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:35:44I know or suspect that 1Q benefited from the Easter shift. So when you take that out, sort of naturally the rest of your might have been softer. But how does that plus one for 2Q to 4Q compare to your prior projection? Thank you. Hopefully, makes sense. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:36:02Yeah, Patrick, I believe so. Hopefully we'll get you a response that aligns with your thinking. But in the end, as we look at pace for, I would say, Q2, Q3, pace is roughly slightly down 0% to 1% for Q2 and then Q3 is little bit weaker, it's down 10%. Hawaiian Village, a big driver of that as well as New Orleans and Chicago, which are both lapping strong Q3 performance on the group side last year. If you recall, obviously, Chicago had the DNC, so it's lapping that. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:36:41Other than those, I would say the markets are pretty healthy for group pacing in Q3. Then Q4 is a very strong quarter for us, up 18%. A lot of big drivers of positive pace and then pretty much across the board, not too many properties dragging down the performance for group expected in Q4. So that's kind of how the pace goes. I would say that I don't think we've seen much decline in the near term. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:37:13I think the definites that we've had on the books, which represent about, at this point, about 90% of the forecast, held. Occasional cancellation, a little bit of maybe wash, but it's been offset by revalves, positive revalves in other areas. So it's generally held. So I think the group story for the year for us, as we look at it and place into the guidance, is just confidence in the year for the year bookings, which probably is not unique to us. Just kind of thinking through the ability to pick up what's remaining in our reach for the rest of the year. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:37:46I think the sales teams feel good, but as Tom mentioned, with the uncertainty out there, you're just kind of seeing hesitancy in decision making right now. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:37:57Okay. So when you say confidence, you mean is confidence or more sounds like there's not confidence? C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:06I just C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:06want to be clear. Thank you. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:38:08I think there's confidence out there to kind of pick up the remaining reach in the portfolio. We've obviously hedged a little bit of that in our guidance forecast. But anything too, I think the teams are generally positive on potentially transient side to kind of cover for some of that. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:26Okay. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:26Thank you. I mean, I could slip in one more. What are you seeing for a '26 and '27 group trends and how has that changed since you last reported? Thank you. And then I'm all set. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:38:40I would speak to '27. For '26, we have seen a drop off. Again, I think as you think through some of the decision making issues we're dealing with, I think you're seeing that play into it right now. Think it's more kind of the early parts of 'twenty six. Operator00:38:58Thank you. Next question today is coming from Smedes Rose from Citi. Your line is now live. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:39:05Hi. Thanks. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:39:06Hey, sweet. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:39:06I just wanted to circle back on the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Sounds like sort of quite a few moving pieces there. And I'm sorry. I mean, do you think, realistically, you could come in ahead of what you did in '24 there on an EBITDA basis, but you did a little over $160,000,000 It seems like from what you're saying that might be hard to achieve, but I just kind of want to maybe I'm not reading what your remarks are. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:39:31Yeah. We had trouble reading or hearing you, Smedes. Just say your question one more time. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:39:37For the Hilton Hawaiian Village, do you think it's realistic that you can do EBITDA this year that's ahead of what you did in '24? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:39:47Yes. I mean, it's hard to say right now, Smedes, could we get close to it? I think that's possible, but I think again, it goes back to the macro uncertainty. I mean, if you get better visibility and better clarity and confidence resumes at a higher level, I see no reason that we don't get back closer to sort of more normalized behavior. If we end up in an all out trade war or something along those lines and God forbid we had to a more softer and sort of recessionary type environment, which we are not seeing that at all. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:40:30This isn't nineeleven. This is not the great financial crisis. This is not obviously the global pandemic. But assuming things sort of normalize or as close to normal, we're certainly well positioned. Whether we get back exactly this year, we are very bullish on Hawaii over the intermediate and long term. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:40:54Fee simple, the barriers to entry, you can't replicate what we have. Obviously, supply growth over the last twenty years. Obviously, outperformance from a RevPAR standpoint versus other resorts over the last twenty years. So it's where if you're going to be over indexed from our standpoint, you want to be over indexed in Hawaii. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:41:21Okay. Thank you. And then I just wanted to ask you the looks like you took a $70,000,000 impairment in the quarter. Can you just talk about what that was related to? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:41:33Yes, it's related to an asset obviously is our accounting and as we've as our team has looked at what we think to be the true value of that subject asset. We've made the decision that it was appropriate to write it down and have recognized that accordingly. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:41:58So you can say which one I guess. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:42:01Yeah, not at this point. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:42:04Alright, thank you. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:42:06Thank you, Smedes. Operator00:42:08Thank you. Next question today is coming from Chris Woronka from Deutsche Bank. Your line is now live. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:42:14Chris. Good morning. Hey, Tom. Good morning. Good morning. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:42:18So just to circle back to the asset sales for a second. I think everybody's curious, in terms of good outcome for pricing, what's kind of your Tom, what's your kind of definition of that? I assume it's kind of based on some kind of NOI or EBITDA and maybe plus, know, save CapEx that that might have been required. I mean, I I assume that's the right way to look at it and not some other metric be it per room or something, but any thoughts you have there would be would be great. Thanks. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:42:50Yes, it's a great question, Chris. I mean, look, it's the assets we're looking to sell are non core. And so embedded in that, obviously, we're looking for attractive pricing, certainly at multiples greater than where we're trading. And obviously we trade at a ridiculous multiple. So we're confident we can be selling at a higher multiple that gives some price discovery for the market as well. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:43:18Saving also CapEx and then being able to reallocate that capital strategically back to our core portfolio and or pay down debt and or buy stock when and where it makes sense. Obviously, given the dislocation, we've been active on all fronts, continuing to manage the balance sheet, continuing to invest back in the portfolio as well as buying back stock. We're very confident as we start printing and showing certainly some of the transactions that are in the pipeline that they will be very attractive and they'll certainly be accretive from where we're currently trading. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:44:03Okay. That's great to hear, Tom. And then as a follow-up, I think Sean may have mentioned that your comparable OpEx kind of ex the noise last quarter was just up 1%. We know that several of your hotels had some labor resets late last year that would have pushed that number up. So where are you finding the offsets to savings? Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:44:26And can that continue? And kind of And implementing any kind of contingency plans with your operators? Thanks. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:44:36Yeah, Chris, I'll take that. Mean, clearly, we were going through those processes last year, I mean, the challenges to the teams, you come in and budget and whatnot, are ultimately define savings and across the board. And so I think the teams have been successful in doing that. I mean, I would say part of the play here too is you think through the mix. I mean, lower occupancy, higher ADR certainly has helped the flow through in the first quarter, and I think that's part of what you see there. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:45:04So as you think through contingency planning as we think in the future, clearly, we're doing those things with the operators. But in an environment where you might see some uncertainty ninety days out, we're seeing outperformance in the near term. So it's definitely a tricky situation for the teams on the property to how they think about staffing as they try to react that dynamic. But in the end, think they're doing an incredible job of kind of staffing and being efficient knowing that they've got the challenges coming off of some of the labor contracts we renewed last year. I would say, as we look forward to, we certainly expect to see some other offsets going forward on the fixed cost side, namely insurance. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:45:46Certainly, it's a positive market for the insurers going to market, and so we go to renew in June 1. We're confident we'll get a good outcome there. So I think that plays into how we think about maintaining the expenses and keeping it within reason. That said, I mean, the end, you still have 4% to 5% wage growth and so we're working to find the offsets where we can. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:46:11Chris, I also just want to say it's strong leadership from Sean, our asset management team, the men and women there who are partnering with our operators. It is also basic blocking and tackling and with a relentless focus on how do we mitigate and how do we manage around. Remember, as you think back through the pandemic and what we were faced with as dire situation as anybody in the sector and we got through it. We got through it as well as anybody given those facts and circumstances. So the team is experienced. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:46:52There isn't anything we haven't seen. Those that sort of write and have comments that we're a little more union focused and that our cost structure is always going to be higher, they're just wrong. And if they did a little bit of work, they'd realize the discipline and talent within this team and you see how we continue to deliver and continue to work. So really proud of them and we'll see even more of that when you start seeing the insurance when that turns around and what we print versus what our peers print. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:47:26Okay, very helpful. Thanks for your time. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:47:30Really appreciate your comment and your question. Thank you. Operator00:47:34Thank you. Next question today is coming from Jay Kornreich from Wedbush Securities. Your line is now live. Jay KornreichVP - Equity Research at Wedbush Securities00:47:40Hi. Thanks. Good morning. Wanted to first just drill down a little bit further in Orlando, which continues just to perform exceptionally well. And just curious if you can provide just further details as to what's driving the strength there and how much of a positive tailwind the opening of Epic Theme Park can produce and if there's any opportunity for Bonnet Creek Complex to produce even more than the $90,000,000 you forecasted? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:48:04Yes, we certainly expect that we will exceed the 90,000,000. It's just if you think about Orlando, people often think about Vegas that has about 45,000,000 visitors. You've got 74,000,000 visitors plus or minus into Orlando. You have obviously Epic, where Universal has put in 6,000,000,000 or more, I think is publicly disclosed number. The excitement around that, the first park to open in decades. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:48:38You've also got Disney coming on the heels talking about another $60,000,000,000 plus or minus. Now I'm not sure all that's theme park that's going to be some shifts. But with that kind of backdrop and given it's a strong hub for convention as well, we are very, very bullish on Orlando. Bonnet Creek in particular, now given the additional meeting space that we added at both the Waldorf as well as the Signia, we have the ability to be able to layer in groups that we didn't have the ability before and then also having a championship golf course. And of course, being a Conde Nast winner last year, a top 10 performer, We're getting rave reviews and the on-site management team is just continues to do an exceptional job. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:49:31So we are very, very bullish both near term and over the intermediate and long term in Orlando. And certainly, again, if you look over the last twenty years in sort of RevPAR growth over the national average, there are several markets, obviously led by Hawaii, Key West, Orlando, Miami, all markets that Park is anchored and where Park has a great footprint. We would encourage investors and listeners to do a little bit more work on that front and see that and you'll see that there's I think a real competitive advantage for Park as we look out. Jay KornreichVP - Equity Research at Wedbush Securities00:50:12I appreciate all that color. And then just one more follow-up, going back to more the macro landscape and just given the uncertainty right now, are you seeing any change in behavior from your transient customers since April, whether I used to be corporates pulling back on business travel or business transient travel or changes in leisure customers traveling to or spending a resource? Or are you really just not seeing much change at all at this point? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:50:37We were down 3% in March. Obviously, you've got the shift of Easter. We expect we're going to end April above the number we have. We have preliminary, where we think the final numbers will be above the 1.6%. Obviously, New York, very strong, as I mentioned earlier, up 18%. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:50:59Bonnet Creek, up 8%. Caribe, up mid-20s, Casa up another 14%, fifteen %. So we're not seeing this is not in a recessionary environment. There's certainly some caution. There's certainly pockets of softness. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:51:20There's certainly concern. We all share it. There's a lot of uncertainty right now. I think we'd all prefer that we get better visibility, but certainly despite that and even the jobs report last week, things still are good. Would like to see some of that uncertainty in some of these trade deals if they're going to occur, the sooner the better because I think that that will help, I think, provide more confidence as we all move forward. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:51:55Thanks very much. Operator00:51:59Thank you. Next question today is coming from Robin Farley from UBS. Your line is now live. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:52:05Great. Thank you. My question was really kind of similar to the last question. Know, in your intro remarks, you mentioned, I think you used the phrase modestly weaker transient. And then you talked about some of the challenges with group, maybe some tougher comps later in the year. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:52:20I guess if you had to sort of rank where the strength or softness is between group and leisure transient and business transient, how would you sort of break down? I mean, it sounds like there's a lot going on in the world and maybe they're all a little bit softer than you thought, or I guess if you were ranking the three. Thanks. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:52:43Well, just for one, Robin, on the group side, again, as I mentioned, the pace and the definites on the books and that holding, I think, is a strength. It's certainly providing that solid base for the business and that to be able not to worry about that base as much, I think, kind of gives it, in this environment, kind of a top billing for me. From the leisure side, which you saw in April, ultimately Tom talked a little bit to Hawaiian Village, but absent Hawaiian Village, on the resort side, it's up, call it, 8% or so for the month. And this was a month where we came in and had dropped the forecast a little bit and outperformed it by about 160 basis points. You're seeing a lot of it's almost like people are thinking through like this is feel like a little bit like coming out of COVID where a lot of the drive to markets are benefiting and a lot of short term transient on leisure side. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:53:40So I kind of feel like leisure, to me, ranks second right now in the possibilities as you think about the summer time frames, transient in a lot of places, might think or might be a challenge, but I think we're seeing plenty of markets that have leisure pace up in the summertime. So I'd put leisure second. Think business transient, I think you think what's captured in that is government and some other elements, who I think are certainly pressured. But I think business transient, corporate negotiated still shows a very narrow booking window, short term, but very solid performance so far. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:54:18Thanks. Just to clarify, April, of course, would have a strong April in a lot of the leisure markets with the benefit of Easter. Is there anything when you look out to kind of May and June where there's not as much of a pronounced calendar shift, would you say leisure is still pacing up outside of the Easter shift? Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:54:45Yeah, would say when I look at I think June is healthier than May right now, Robin. So May, I think, is just kind of a month where I think we don't have the group strength at this point. And so I think May is a little bit softer month for us in the quarter, softness of the quarter. And I think June is stronger with some group backdrop and I think better leisure profile. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:55:10Great. Thank you. Operator00:55:12Thank you. Next question is coming from Chris Darling from Green Street. Your line is now live. Chris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:55:19Thanks. Good morning. Tom, I wanted Chris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:55:23to go back to the discussion around capital allocation. Just curious how you think about pursuing incremental share repurchases relative to perhaps bolstering your liquidity position? Obviously, a more certain economic outlook today and you think about some of the debt maturities coming due next year? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:55:43Chris, it's a great question. Sean and I spend a lot of time and the team really studying it. I mean, obviously, we'd like to the extent possible take proceeds. And if we're buying back stock, want to do it on a neutral on a leverage neutral basis. We clearly want to continue investing back into the core portfolio as we've talked about it and obviously continuing to manage carefully the balance sheet. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:56:10I mean we've got over $1,200,000,000 in liquidity. Please keep in mind, obviously, the CMBS loan for Hilton Hawaiian Village matures in November, December of next year. We have a plan and we have optionality. Remember, during the pandemic, we did three bond deals, we pushed out maturities, we paid off all the banks, all the banks made fees. We have great banking relationships. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:56:47We're not reliant on the banks and we are carefully studying it and you'll see significant progress made on that maturity this year and we're confident that we'll get it addressed. So no fear or concern from that standpoint. Having said that, when you're trading at this kind of pricing, we certainly think buying back stock at these levels is certainly among the best investment decisions that we can make buying back into this core portfolio at this kind of pricing. So it's a balancing act. I think we've demonstrated it and we'll be careful and thoughtful about it. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:57:34And I think we've demonstrated that over time. Chris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:57:38All right. Makes sense. Appreciate the thoughts. Thank you. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:57:41All right. Thank you. Operator00:57:43Thank you. Next question is coming from Dani Assad from Bank of America. Your line is now live. Dany AsadDirector at Bank of America00:57:49Hi, good morning everybody. So maybe one more question on leisure, if you don't mind. Are you seeing any different patterns of behavior from your consumers staying at your higher end properties relative to non luxury resorts? Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:58:07Not in particular, Danny. I mean, clearly, certainly see better pricing out of the luxury side. You're certainly seeing places like Hawaiian Village where we're opening up channels to obviously drive more volume there because we're trying to recover, which is attracting a little more of a discount leisure. But I think outside of that, I don't think the patterns have really changed much Dany AsadDirector at Bank of America00:58:30in the Okay. Dany AsadDirector at Bank of America00:58:34And then one more, just your non rooms revenue grew about 200 basis points ahead of RevPAR for the quarter. Is there anything unique to Q1 that would drive this? And just how should we think about RevPAR versus out of room spend for the balance of the year with the updated outlook? Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:58:54Yes. We had some strong group catering contribution, up 9% in Q1. I think as we think about the contribution to overall RevPAR, about I'd say about 500 basis to 100 basis points added to RevPAR. As we discussed, group pace a little bit weaker as we go into Q3. So I think what's driving it overall for the year though and a little bit of strength certainly in Q1 is just the mix between in house kind of corporate in house and convention has shifted more in the favor of in house group this year. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:59:30So you're just going to get better F and B production on the catering side. Obviously, with convention business, you're just mostly getting room blocks off of that and they're eating elsewhere. So I think that's kind of a dramatic more of a significant shift for us this year. Operator00:59:46Thank you. We reached the end of our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the floor back over for any further or closing comments. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:59:53We really appreciate everybody taking time today and we look forward to seeing you all at upcoming conferences. Operator01:00:02Thank you. That does conclude today's teleconference and webcast. You may disconnect your line at this time and have a wonderful day. We thank you for your participation today.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesIan WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate StrategyThomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEOSean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & TreasurerAnalystsFloris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & TradingDavid KatzManaging Director at JefferiesDuane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISIC. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist SecuritiesSmedes RoseDirector at CitiChris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche BankJay KornreichVP - Equity Research at Wedbush SecuritiesRobin FarleyManaging Director at UBS GroupChris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLCDany AsadDirector at Bank of AmericaPowered by Key Takeaways Park delivered flat RevPAR in Q1 2025—beating expectations despite tough comps—with standout performance at Bonnet Creek Orlando (+32%) and Casa Marina Key West (+12%), offset by a drag from Hilton Hawaiian Village’s post-strike recovery. The company initiated over $80 million of capital improvements in Q1 and plans to invest $310–330 million in 2025, highlighted by a $100 million transformation of Royal Palm South Beach targeting 15–20% unlevered returns and doubling stabilized EBITDA. Park repurchased ~3.5 million shares for $45 million in Q1 (11.5 million shares in the past year) at a material discount to NAV, and remains on track to sell $300–400 million of non-core assets this year to optimize its portfolio. The discretionary entitlement for a 515-room tower at Hilton Hawaiian Village was approved by Honolulu City Council, with final administrative sign-off expected by year-end, paving the way for campus expansion. Updated 2025 guidance reflects RevPAR growth of –1% to +2%, adjusted EBITDA of $590–650 million, and adjusted FFO per share of $1.79–2.09, while Q2 RevPAR is expected to be roughly flat year-over-year. A.I. generated. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings, and welcome to the Park Hotels and Resorts First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:00:28As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:32It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to your host, Ian Weissman, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy. Operator00:00:38Ian, please go ahead. Ian WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts00:00:40Thank you, operator, and welcome, everyone, to the Park Hotels and Resorts first quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that many of the comments made today are considered forward looking statements under federal securities laws. As described in our filings with the SEC, these statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause future results to differ from those expressed, and we are not obligated to publicly update or revise these forward looking statements. Actual future performance, outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in forward looking statements. Please refer to the documents filed by Park with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports on Forms 10 ks and 10 Q, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward looking statements. Ian WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts00:01:36In addition, on today's call, we will discuss certain non GAAP financial information such as FFO and adjusted EBITDA. You can find this information together with reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure in this morning's earnings release as well as in our eight ks filed with the SEC and the supplemental financial information available on our website at pkhotelsandresorts.com. Additionally, unless otherwise stated, all operating results will be presented on a comparable basis. This morning, Tom Baltimore, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will provide a review of Park's first quarter performance and strategic initiatives as well as update on our 2025 outlook. Sean DeLorto, our Chief Financial Officer, will provide additional color on first quarter results and 2025 guidance. Ian WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts00:02:33Following our prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Tom. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:02:41Thank you, Ian, and welcome, everyone. I'm pleased to report that we delivered better than expected performance in the first quarter with RevPAR essentially flat despite a tough comparison to last year, when our portfolio significantly outperformed in almost every market, resulting in nearly 8% RevPAR growth compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty three. Our Bonnet Creek complex in Orlando and Casa Marina Resort in Key West continued to lead the portfolio following their transformative renovations, with first quarter RevPAR increasing by 1412% respectively. And we were very pleased to see broad based strength in several of our core markets, with Miami, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Washington DC, and San Francisco reporting above industry average RevPAR gains. Results from our Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, which continues to recover from the labor strike last fall, offset these gains, causing a four twenty basis point drag on our first quarter results. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:03:58From a capital allocation perspective, it was another productive quarter, as we remain laser focused on allocating capital to unlock the embedded value in our portfolio and maximize shareholder returns. We initiated over $80,000,000 of capital improvements during the quarter, while we plan to execute the second phase of renovations at both of our Hawaii hotels during the third quarter, alongside with the second phase of main tower guest room renovations at the Hilton, New Orleans Riverside. We're also excited to announce the upcoming $100,000,000 transformative renovation of the Royal Palm South Beach, Miami. With the hotel having recently suspended operations, construction is expected to begin within the next few weeks. The renovation will include a complete refurbishment of all three ninety three guest rooms, along with the addition of 11 new rooms. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:05:01All public spaces will be reimagined, including a new lobby bar, reconcepted food and beverage outlets, and expanded meeting spaces designed to enhance the overall guest experience. Forecasted returns are in excess of 15% to 20%, with the expectation of doubling the hotel's EBITDA once stabilized. In 2025, we expect to invest a total of $310,000,000 to $330,000,000 on capital improvements as we continue to reinvest in our iconic portfolio with the confidence that we can generate higher development yields compared to acquisition yields. We also achieved a major milestone in the entitlements process for the planned five fifteen room tower and related campus expansion at Hilton Hawaiian Village. In mid April, the City Council of Honolulu approved our discretionary entitlement applications for the project, subject to certain conditions which we expect to be able to satisfy. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:06:12We also expect to receive final administrative approval of the project by the end of this year. Additionally, given the historically wide disconnect between public and private market valuations, we remain active in repurchasing shares during the quarter at a material discount to net asset value, having bought back approximately 3,500,000.0 shares for a total purchase price of $45,000,000 and approximately 11,500,000.0 shares over the past year. Finally, despite a very challenging transaction market, we continue to make progress toward our strategic initiative of selling 300 to $400,000,000 of non core hotels this year. We have several assets in various stages of the marketing and disposition process, including a pending sale of a non core hotel at very attractive pricing. However, given the current market uncertainty, we make no assurances as to whether or when the transaction will close. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:07:19As a reminder, since 2017, we have sold or disposed of 45 hotels for over $3,000,000,000 an effort that has materially reshaped our portfolio and strengthened our long term growth path. Turning to operations. We are very pleased with the performance of our Bonnet Creek complex in Orlando, following our $220,000,000 comprehensive renovation and meeting space expansion project. Results for the complex continue to come in well ahead of expectations, with a 32% RevPAR increase in Q1 at the Waldorf Astoria, driven in large part by a surge in transient revenues of nearly 65%, while the hotel grew market share by nearly 30%. Looking ahead, the outlook for our Orlando hotels remains very strong, with group revenue pace up 9%, while the overall market is expected to witness tailwinds from the opening of Universal's new Epic Theme Park, which is anticipated to accelerate leisure transient demand into the market after its expected opening this May. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:08:39EBITDA for the complex is currently forecasted to exceed $90,000,000 in 2025, a $30,000,000 increase over 2023. In Key West, Casa Marina delivered another strong quarter with RevPAR up 12%, driven by a six eighty basis point increase in occupancy and nearly 4% growth in ADR, despite lapping an impressive first quarter performance last year when RevPAR growth was over 34% compared to 2023. The hotel also continued to outperform its competitive set, posting a RevPAR index above 112. At the REACH, RevPAR held steady year over year, following a 7% increase in the first quarter of last year over 2023. The hotel continued to outperform, achieving an impressive RevPAR index of 119, exceeding its competitive set in March by nearly 300 basis points in occupancy and nearly $100 in rate. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:09:52As we move through the second quarter, we are seeing continued solid performance from both Key West properties, with RevPAR expected to trend up low single digits fueled by Castle Marina's continued momentum, strong group booking patterns, and the favorable timing of the Easter holiday shift into April. Turning to Hawaii. RevPAR across our two properties declined by 15% during the quarter, as our Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel continues to ramp up following the labor strike in Q4. Marginally softer inbound travel from abroad also weighed on results, with arrivals from Japan down 6% and Canada down 1.5%. However, we were very encouraged that US domestic visitation remained flat year over year, supported by increased airlift from major US carriers, including new domestic routes into Honolulu, announced by both Delta and American earlier this year, which continues to drive healthy inbound travel from the Mainland. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:11:06At our Hilton Waikoloa Village Hotel on the Big Island, RevPAR declined just 2.5% during the quarter, while Q2 RevPAR growth is expected to accelerate to mid single digit range, driven by the nearly 90% increase in group revenue pace during the quarter. Additionally, we continue to see benefits from our recent capital investments at both of our Hawaii hotels. At Hilton Hawaiian Village, we completed phase one of the Rainbow Tower renovation in February, which included a full upgrade of three ninety two guest rooms in the addition of 12 new guest rooms. At Waikoloa Village, phase one of the Palace Tower renovation was finalized, upgrading 197 guest rooms and expanding the inventory with six new guest rooms. We were pleased to see meaningful rate premiums of 25% to 30% for the renovated rooms at both resorts in the first quarter, a clear reflection of the quality and impact of the investments made at both resorts. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:12:20We plan to kick off the final phase of both the Rainbow Tower and Palace Tower guest room renovations during the third quarter, with the project extending into early next year. Looking ahead, the long term outlook for Hawaii remains very favorable, supported by limited new supply expected through at least 2029, and the anticipated improvement of inbound travel from Japan as the dollar yen exchange rate normalizes. Hawaii is one of the most dynamic and resilient resort markets in the country, with over 3,500 fee simple guest rooms at a huge discount to replacement cost, Park remains well positioned to deliver above average long term growth for shareholders. With respect to fundamentals over the balance of the year, the near term outlook for US lodging fundamentals remains uncertain, as the ongoing global trade war continues to delay decision making and amplify geopolitical tensions, causing booking windows across most segments to narrow significantly, and disrupting cross border leisure travel. April results have been mixed, with preliminary RevPAR growth of 1.6%, driven by double digit gains in New York, Orlando, and San Francisco, which benefited from exceptionally strong group trends, while preliminary RevPAR in Puerto Rico increased by 25%, offset by weaker performance in Hawaii, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, and Washington DC. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:14:19Despite the modest decline in a select few markets, we continue to see pockets of strength in many of our resort and urban hotels. While concerns persist about a significant slowdown in both international and government related demand, neither has had a meaningful impact on our performance. International demand represents just 10% of total room nights, while government related business accounts were only 3% of overall room nights. Based on our current forecast, Q2 RevPAR growth is expected to be relatively flat year over year, or approximately two ninety basis points lower than initial forecast, with Hilton Hawaiian Village representing roughly 80% of the reduction. Despite ongoing macro uncertainty, we remain laser focused on factors within our control, and continue to work closely with our operators as they develop contingency plans for managing operating expenses in the event of further demand softening. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:15:32Additionally, while the transaction market remains episodic, we will remain prudent capital allocators, advancing our strategic objective of selling non core hotels to further deleverage the balance sheet and support our robust ROI pipeline. Sean will provide greater details about guidance in his remarks. Overall, I am incredibly proud of the progress we've made in elevating the overall quality of our portfolio, positioning the company for sustained long term growth, and returning capital to shareholders. Our targeted capital investments are delivering strong results, reinforcing the overall quality of our portfolio and the significant embedded value within our real estate. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Sean. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:16:30Thanks, Tom. Overall, are pleased with our first quarter results with Q1 RevPAR exceeding expectations with reported results of 178 representing a modest 70 basis point decline over the prior year period. Difficult year over year comparisons were the primary driver of the decline following last year's nearly 8% growth rate with occupancy falling by two ten basis points during the quarter, although offset by continued rate strength with ADR up over 2.3%. Total hotel revenues for the quarter were $6.00 $8,000,000 and hotel adjusted EBITDA was $151,000,000 resulting in a nearly 25% hotel adjusted EBITDA margin. Total expenses were up 3.3 during the quarter with the majority of the increase related to nearly $10,000,000 of employment tax credits and other relief grants received in Q1 of last year. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:17:23Excluding these items, total comparable operating expenses increased just 1% over the prior year period. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $144,000,000 and adjusted FFO per share was $0.46 With respect to our dividend, on April 15, we paid our first quarter cash dividend of $0.25 per share. And on April 25, we declared our second quarter cash dividend of $0.25 per share to be paid on July 15 to stockholders of record as of June 30. The dividend currently translates to an annualized yield of approximately 10%. Turning to guidance, as we navigate the increasingly complex global economic landscape and evaluate the impact of the escalated trade war on global travel, we have revised our full year outlook to reflect a modest slowdown in demand. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:18:13As a result, we are lowering our RevPAR growth forecast by 100 basis points at the midpoint to a new range of negative 1% to positive 2%, maintaining a wider than normal range to account for the ongoing uncertainty. Note that most of this adjustment reflects a slower than expected recovery at Hilton Hawaiian Village, coupled with modestly weaker transient demand over the next quarter or two. Hilton Hawaiian Village, along with the overall portfolio, will benefit from easier year over year comparisons in November and December following last year's labor strike there and in a few of our other markets. This along with an 18% increase in Q4 group revenue pace for the portfolio should help to support low to mid single digit RevPAR gains during the fourth quarter. With respect to earnings, we are lowering our adjusted EBITDA forecast by just 3% at the midpoint to a new range of $590,000,000 to $650,000,000 while hotel adjusted EBITDA margin range is now 25.6% to 27.2%, or down just 50 basis points from our initial range. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:19:18And finally, adjusted FFO per share is reduced by $0.11 at the midpoint to a new range of $1.79 to $2.09 per share. Additionally, as a reminder and included in our original guidance, renovation related displacement at the Royal Palm South Beach Hotel is expected to reduce RevPAR growth by approximately 110 basis points for the year. This concludes our prepared remarks. We will now open the line for Q and A. To address each of your questions, we will ask that you limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:19:49Operator, may we have the first question, please? Operator00:19:52Certainly. We'll now be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question today is coming from Floris Van Dykem from Compass Point. Your line is now live. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:20:19Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:20:21Good morning. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:20:23Tom, maybe if you could comment a little bit on the planned asset sales and how Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:20:30the current market environments and of being able to achieve decent prices as well as having willing buyers? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:20:39Yes, it's a great question, Floris. Look, we've got tremendous uncertainty right now for all the reasons that we all know, geopolitical, obviously, the tariffs, obviously leading to trade wars and uncertainty is the enemy of decision making. I think for many business leaders, men and women, they're probably hesitant, they're probably pausing in many situations and certainly being cautious. No difference than what certainly we're seeing and probably a lot of our peers, hence the reason that I think everybody has been sort of a little more cautious on forward guidance. I would say that this team has really separated itself in being able to transact even under the worst of circumstances. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:21:30If you think back since the spin, as we pointed out, we have sold or disposed of 45 hotels, including 14 international for north of 3,000,000,000 We do have one asset under contract, very attractive pricing. And look, we are cautiously optimistic, but we're not going to comment and give any details until it closes, we just think that's the prudent thing to do. But we also have a number of other assets that are at various stages of the marketing process. There's plenty of liquidity, there's plenty of equity capital, there's plenty of debt capital. And if I'm a small family office, owner operator, mid sized PE firm, these periods of dislocation I think can be a really unique opportunity to certainly buy assets. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:22:24So we are being very targeted. We're being very focused and I think we've again demonstrated every year that we've been able to sell assets. We've raised the bar a little higher this year, but we're still working our butts off to get as many sales done this year as we can. We are confident that we will achieve our objectives. Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:22:47Thanks, Tom. Maybe in my follow-up, maybe if you can comment a Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:22:50little bit more on Hawaii. Obviously RevPAR was down I think 15% in the quarter. You said it dragged for the overall Hawaii village was a four twenty basis point drag on overall results. How is the ramp of the obviously the strike disruption in the fourth quarter, but also the renovations that have just occurred. How quickly will it ramp up in your view? Floris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & Trading00:23:14And how dependent are you on the international tourists for some of that ramp? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:23:22Well, listen, ramp is taking a little longer as we come out of the strike. Obviously, the strike was forty five days. It certainly had an impact and we are seeing sequentially improvement. I mean, we were down obviously Hilton Hawaiian Village about 15%, obviously in the excuse me, 18% in Q1. As we look at April, we're down about 7% and we're probably going to be down we think for the quarter probably high single digit, low double digit. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:23:57So certainly seeing improvement there. Feel very good about third quarter, probably mid single digit positive as we think about RevPAR and as Sean pointed out in his remarks, we've got really favorable and easy comp in Q4. So overall, we think it's going to be a solid performer long term intermediate and long term. Floris, we could not be more confident about any market than Hawaii just given the limited supply growth, given the historic nature of the market where it is its RevPAR growth rate has outpaced The U. S. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:24:37By 120 basis points over the last twenty years. So feel very good about it over the intermediate and long term. As it relates to the renovations, we've been very strategic, very thoughtful about it. Karl Mayfield and his team on our design and construction are best in class, best in the industry. And so we think there's really minimal disruption, particularly since you're lapping disruption from the previous year as we're completing and carefully phasing and staging our renovations there. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:25:10And we don't have any issues in terms of supplies. We have what we need and are confident that we'll be able to get them done sort of one time, one budget as I think we've done as well as anybody in this sector, particularly given the nature of our portfolio. Operator00:25:33Thank you. Next question is coming from David Katz from Jefferies. Your line is now live. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:25:39Hey, Hey, good morning, everybody. Thanks for taking my question. Look, I wanted to just follow-up on the prior conversation about asset sales, and the market will be what it will be. But it does look like you've sort of trimmed your core hotels to a smaller number, right? 25 to 20, if I'm seeing that correctly. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:26:05Maybe we should just talk about that and sort of what's going on with the five and sort of how we're thinking about that change, please. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:26:18Yes, it's a great question, David. We have as a team, again back to the earlier comment I made, we have worked our tails off and I know you know this and really looking to reshape the portfolio based on additional work and as we've looked at capital allocation, where do we want to be allocating capital, it's really those top 20 assets that really account for about 8590% of the value of the company. And so we've made the decision that those are the core assets, the other remaining assets we want to work really hard to recycle that capital to sell those assets and take those proceeds and pay down debt, reinvest in strategic ROI projects as we're talking about in Hawaii and New Orleans and obviously Miami. And then obviously in periods of dislocation, be prepared to buy back stock. And look, we have bought back 26,500,000.0 shares over the last two point five years. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:27:22So I think we've been as prudent as anybody from a capital allocation standpoint and very confident in those 20 hotels being sort of our core and then working as aggressively as we can to sell the non core. And that can be different combinations. You saw in Oakland last year, non performing difficult market, we closed the hotel. You've seen other situations, there are short term ground leases. We'll work to figure out a solution for those situations. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:27:52But we really want to get the core portfolio down to those core 20 hotels where the real embedded value of the company lies. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:28:04Understood. And if I can just follow-up quickly with respect to the CapEx that's planned, notably Miami, which is important over the course of a year, it seems to me that you've sort of embarked on that. Maybe you could talk about how much of that cost is really sort of and timing is sort of locked in at this point, just given the limited visibility in the marketplace? Thank you. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:28:31Yes, it's another great question, David. I would say, and you heard me make this the earlier comment, you've been down, you've seen obviously what we've done in Orlando with the Bonnet Creek and how well that's performing and the complexity of that. And I say this respectfully, there's not another team in the lodging REIT landscape that has that experience and has that ability to be able to handle it. Miami, this is what we do. Carl Mayfield and the team have studied this situation carefully over the last year. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:29:09We've bought out many of the subs, we have the GC, we have the permits, we have suspended operations, we will be preparing and fencing around and we're confident that we will deliver before June of next year for the World Cups and we're excited. I mean this is a complete transformation of guest rooms, public space, lobby, the pool area, food and beverage outlets. And we think obviously as we've said, we think there's a great opportunity not only for 15% to 2025% unlevered returns, but the ability to really double EBITDA as well. And in a market where you've got such high end, the Aubert's coming, Rosewood, the Amman, the Andaz obviously will open at some point and the ability for us to tuck underneath that and be able to really significantly increase rates and given the quality of that location, Mid Beach, right next to the Lowe's, we're really excited about this project as we move forward. We realize there's some near term disruption, but we think for intermediate and long term and for real value creation for shareholders, it's the right decision for us to make. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:30:32We also believe passionately that we can deliver higher development yields than we can acquisition yields and that really plays to our strength as a team. David KatzManaging Director at Jefferies00:30:45Appreciate it. Thanks very much. Good luck. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:30:48Thank you. Operator00:30:50Thank you. Our next question today is coming from Duane Pfennigwerth from Evercore ISI. Your line is now live. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:30:57Hey, Duane. Duane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISI00:30:58Hey, good morning. Just wonder if you could give us your updated views on markets that you expect to lead this year and the underlying demand drivers and correspondingly the markets that you expect will lag in your portfolio? And has that pecking order changed since one quarter ago? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:31:23Well, look, we've talked about Hawaii. We think obviously Hawaii is going to continue to ramp up the Hilton Hawaiian Village obviously is on that given the post strike. Hilton Waikoloa, we still are very bullish on that. We've obviously got a significant increase in group business there. What's happening in Orlando and the double digit increase that we've seen at Bonnet Creek, we expect that's obviously going to continue to be a really strong performer. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:31:53Key West, obviously, again, given the transformative renovations there and what we're doing and how well they did last year, we still continue to be very encouraged. New York City, I mean New York is up April 16%, seventeen % and we feel good about it in the second quarter Obviously, you've had very little supply added in New York and continue to be cautiously optimistic there. Caribe has been on fire and continues to perform very well for us there. We're expecting obviously Denver given the management changes that we've made there, certainly to see sequential improvement there as we sort of look out. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:32:39So we're overall, if you think about the first quarter, taking out Hilton Hawaiian Village from that standpoint and given the tough comp, I mean, would have been obviously a very strong nearly 4% increase RevPAR for us. Given the fact that we've been so disciplined and I give a huge credit to our asset management team, to Sean's leadership as well as we look on the cost side. I mean, we were up about 3.3% in expenses, but when you take out the one time anomalies, we were only up about one a little over 1%. So I mean, it's not just the top line in those markets, but it's the discipline as well on the cost side. And so I think we've done a really good job on that front and you'll see that kind of energy and effort to continue as we move forward. Duane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISI00:33:32Thanks, Tom. And if I could just follow-up on one of those on New York. There's been so much intense media focus on potentially softer international inbound, less Canadian travel, etcetera. And so what do you think some of that media might be missing in terms of demand drivers to a market like New York? And thanks for taking the questions. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:33:58Yes. Listen, New York, one of the great cities of the world as we all know and there's no doubt when you think about the frustration, the energy around the tariffs right now, are going to be some. Obviously, we saw a little bit of decline in the Japanese coming into Hawaii. That's still ramping up, but still certainly still a little over 50% below where we were in 2019. International accounts for about 10% of our business overall. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:34:30If you think about pre pandemic inbound into The U. S. Was about $79,000,000 I think we're back to somewhere between $142,000,000 About half of that comes from Canada and Mexico. Mexico has been pretty consistent. It hasn't seen a fall off. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:34:51You've seen a little bit of fall off in Canada and we're all hopeful just given the strong alliance and relationship that that will get resolved and that will sort of resume. But certainly in the near term that is a little dilutive. But again for us, it's less than 2%. So it's really not that significant to Park and into our portfolio. Duane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISI00:35:17You. Operator00:35:20Thank you. Next question today is coming from Patrick Scholes from Truist Securities. Your line is now live. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:35:26Thank you, operator. Hi, good morning everyone. Question for you on the group pace. On the prior earnings release, it had been tracking six, now it's one plus one for the year. I'm wondering if you can kind of give us an apples to apples for 2Q to 4Q. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:35:44I know or suspect that 1Q benefited from the Easter shift. So when you take that out, sort of naturally the rest of your might have been softer. But how does that plus one for 2Q to 4Q compare to your prior projection? Thank you. Hopefully, makes sense. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:36:02Yeah, Patrick, I believe so. Hopefully we'll get you a response that aligns with your thinking. But in the end, as we look at pace for, I would say, Q2, Q3, pace is roughly slightly down 0% to 1% for Q2 and then Q3 is little bit weaker, it's down 10%. Hawaiian Village, a big driver of that as well as New Orleans and Chicago, which are both lapping strong Q3 performance on the group side last year. If you recall, obviously, Chicago had the DNC, so it's lapping that. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:36:41Other than those, I would say the markets are pretty healthy for group pacing in Q3. Then Q4 is a very strong quarter for us, up 18%. A lot of big drivers of positive pace and then pretty much across the board, not too many properties dragging down the performance for group expected in Q4. So that's kind of how the pace goes. I would say that I don't think we've seen much decline in the near term. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:37:13I think the definites that we've had on the books, which represent about, at this point, about 90% of the forecast, held. Occasional cancellation, a little bit of maybe wash, but it's been offset by revalves, positive revalves in other areas. So it's generally held. So I think the group story for the year for us, as we look at it and place into the guidance, is just confidence in the year for the year bookings, which probably is not unique to us. Just kind of thinking through the ability to pick up what's remaining in our reach for the rest of the year. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:37:46I think the sales teams feel good, but as Tom mentioned, with the uncertainty out there, you're just kind of seeing hesitancy in decision making right now. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:37:57Okay. So when you say confidence, you mean is confidence or more sounds like there's not confidence? C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:06I just C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:06want to be clear. Thank you. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:38:08I think there's confidence out there to kind of pick up the remaining reach in the portfolio. We've obviously hedged a little bit of that in our guidance forecast. But anything too, I think the teams are generally positive on potentially transient side to kind of cover for some of that. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:26Okay. C. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist Securities00:38:26Thank you. I mean, I could slip in one more. What are you seeing for a '26 and '27 group trends and how has that changed since you last reported? Thank you. And then I'm all set. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:38:40I would speak to '27. For '26, we have seen a drop off. Again, I think as you think through some of the decision making issues we're dealing with, I think you're seeing that play into it right now. Think it's more kind of the early parts of 'twenty six. Operator00:38:58Thank you. Next question today is coming from Smedes Rose from Citi. Your line is now live. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:39:05Hi. Thanks. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:39:06Hey, sweet. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:39:06I just wanted to circle back on the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Sounds like sort of quite a few moving pieces there. And I'm sorry. I mean, do you think, realistically, you could come in ahead of what you did in '24 there on an EBITDA basis, but you did a little over $160,000,000 It seems like from what you're saying that might be hard to achieve, but I just kind of want to maybe I'm not reading what your remarks are. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:39:31Yeah. We had trouble reading or hearing you, Smedes. Just say your question one more time. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:39:37For the Hilton Hawaiian Village, do you think it's realistic that you can do EBITDA this year that's ahead of what you did in '24? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:39:47Yes. I mean, it's hard to say right now, Smedes, could we get close to it? I think that's possible, but I think again, it goes back to the macro uncertainty. I mean, if you get better visibility and better clarity and confidence resumes at a higher level, I see no reason that we don't get back closer to sort of more normalized behavior. If we end up in an all out trade war or something along those lines and God forbid we had to a more softer and sort of recessionary type environment, which we are not seeing that at all. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:40:30This isn't nineeleven. This is not the great financial crisis. This is not obviously the global pandemic. But assuming things sort of normalize or as close to normal, we're certainly well positioned. Whether we get back exactly this year, we are very bullish on Hawaii over the intermediate and long term. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:40:54Fee simple, the barriers to entry, you can't replicate what we have. Obviously, supply growth over the last twenty years. Obviously, outperformance from a RevPAR standpoint versus other resorts over the last twenty years. So it's where if you're going to be over indexed from our standpoint, you want to be over indexed in Hawaii. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:41:21Okay. Thank you. And then I just wanted to ask you the looks like you took a $70,000,000 impairment in the quarter. Can you just talk about what that was related to? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:41:33Yes, it's related to an asset obviously is our accounting and as we've as our team has looked at what we think to be the true value of that subject asset. We've made the decision that it was appropriate to write it down and have recognized that accordingly. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:41:58So you can say which one I guess. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:42:01Yeah, not at this point. Smedes RoseDirector at Citi00:42:04Alright, thank you. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:42:06Thank you, Smedes. Operator00:42:08Thank you. Next question today is coming from Chris Woronka from Deutsche Bank. Your line is now live. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:42:14Chris. Good morning. Hey, Tom. Good morning. Good morning. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:42:18So just to circle back to the asset sales for a second. I think everybody's curious, in terms of good outcome for pricing, what's kind of your Tom, what's your kind of definition of that? I assume it's kind of based on some kind of NOI or EBITDA and maybe plus, know, save CapEx that that might have been required. I mean, I I assume that's the right way to look at it and not some other metric be it per room or something, but any thoughts you have there would be would be great. Thanks. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:42:50Yes, it's a great question, Chris. I mean, look, it's the assets we're looking to sell are non core. And so embedded in that, obviously, we're looking for attractive pricing, certainly at multiples greater than where we're trading. And obviously we trade at a ridiculous multiple. So we're confident we can be selling at a higher multiple that gives some price discovery for the market as well. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:43:18Saving also CapEx and then being able to reallocate that capital strategically back to our core portfolio and or pay down debt and or buy stock when and where it makes sense. Obviously, given the dislocation, we've been active on all fronts, continuing to manage the balance sheet, continuing to invest back in the portfolio as well as buying back stock. We're very confident as we start printing and showing certainly some of the transactions that are in the pipeline that they will be very attractive and they'll certainly be accretive from where we're currently trading. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:44:03Okay. That's great to hear, Tom. And then as a follow-up, I think Sean may have mentioned that your comparable OpEx kind of ex the noise last quarter was just up 1%. We know that several of your hotels had some labor resets late last year that would have pushed that number up. So where are you finding the offsets to savings? Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:44:26And can that continue? And kind of And implementing any kind of contingency plans with your operators? Thanks. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:44:36Yeah, Chris, I'll take that. Mean, clearly, we were going through those processes last year, I mean, the challenges to the teams, you come in and budget and whatnot, are ultimately define savings and across the board. And so I think the teams have been successful in doing that. I mean, I would say part of the play here too is you think through the mix. I mean, lower occupancy, higher ADR certainly has helped the flow through in the first quarter, and I think that's part of what you see there. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:45:04So as you think through contingency planning as we think in the future, clearly, we're doing those things with the operators. But in an environment where you might see some uncertainty ninety days out, we're seeing outperformance in the near term. So it's definitely a tricky situation for the teams on the property to how they think about staffing as they try to react that dynamic. But in the end, think they're doing an incredible job of kind of staffing and being efficient knowing that they've got the challenges coming off of some of the labor contracts we renewed last year. I would say, as we look forward to, we certainly expect to see some other offsets going forward on the fixed cost side, namely insurance. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:45:46Certainly, it's a positive market for the insurers going to market, and so we go to renew in June 1. We're confident we'll get a good outcome there. So I think that plays into how we think about maintaining the expenses and keeping it within reason. That said, I mean, the end, you still have 4% to 5% wage growth and so we're working to find the offsets where we can. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:46:11Chris, I also just want to say it's strong leadership from Sean, our asset management team, the men and women there who are partnering with our operators. It is also basic blocking and tackling and with a relentless focus on how do we mitigate and how do we manage around. Remember, as you think back through the pandemic and what we were faced with as dire situation as anybody in the sector and we got through it. We got through it as well as anybody given those facts and circumstances. So the team is experienced. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:46:52There isn't anything we haven't seen. Those that sort of write and have comments that we're a little more union focused and that our cost structure is always going to be higher, they're just wrong. And if they did a little bit of work, they'd realize the discipline and talent within this team and you see how we continue to deliver and continue to work. So really proud of them and we'll see even more of that when you start seeing the insurance when that turns around and what we print versus what our peers print. Chris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche Bank00:47:26Okay, very helpful. Thanks for your time. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:47:30Really appreciate your comment and your question. Thank you. Operator00:47:34Thank you. Next question today is coming from Jay Kornreich from Wedbush Securities. Your line is now live. Jay KornreichVP - Equity Research at Wedbush Securities00:47:40Hi. Thanks. Good morning. Wanted to first just drill down a little bit further in Orlando, which continues just to perform exceptionally well. And just curious if you can provide just further details as to what's driving the strength there and how much of a positive tailwind the opening of Epic Theme Park can produce and if there's any opportunity for Bonnet Creek Complex to produce even more than the $90,000,000 you forecasted? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:48:04Yes, we certainly expect that we will exceed the 90,000,000. It's just if you think about Orlando, people often think about Vegas that has about 45,000,000 visitors. You've got 74,000,000 visitors plus or minus into Orlando. You have obviously Epic, where Universal has put in 6,000,000,000 or more, I think is publicly disclosed number. The excitement around that, the first park to open in decades. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:48:38You've also got Disney coming on the heels talking about another $60,000,000,000 plus or minus. Now I'm not sure all that's theme park that's going to be some shifts. But with that kind of backdrop and given it's a strong hub for convention as well, we are very, very bullish on Orlando. Bonnet Creek in particular, now given the additional meeting space that we added at both the Waldorf as well as the Signia, we have the ability to be able to layer in groups that we didn't have the ability before and then also having a championship golf course. And of course, being a Conde Nast winner last year, a top 10 performer, We're getting rave reviews and the on-site management team is just continues to do an exceptional job. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:49:31So we are very, very bullish both near term and over the intermediate and long term in Orlando. And certainly, again, if you look over the last twenty years in sort of RevPAR growth over the national average, there are several markets, obviously led by Hawaii, Key West, Orlando, Miami, all markets that Park is anchored and where Park has a great footprint. We would encourage investors and listeners to do a little bit more work on that front and see that and you'll see that there's I think a real competitive advantage for Park as we look out. Jay KornreichVP - Equity Research at Wedbush Securities00:50:12I appreciate all that color. And then just one more follow-up, going back to more the macro landscape and just given the uncertainty right now, are you seeing any change in behavior from your transient customers since April, whether I used to be corporates pulling back on business travel or business transient travel or changes in leisure customers traveling to or spending a resource? Or are you really just not seeing much change at all at this point? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:50:37We were down 3% in March. Obviously, you've got the shift of Easter. We expect we're going to end April above the number we have. We have preliminary, where we think the final numbers will be above the 1.6%. Obviously, New York, very strong, as I mentioned earlier, up 18%. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:50:59Bonnet Creek, up 8%. Caribe, up mid-20s, Casa up another 14%, fifteen %. So we're not seeing this is not in a recessionary environment. There's certainly some caution. There's certainly pockets of softness. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:51:20There's certainly concern. We all share it. There's a lot of uncertainty right now. I think we'd all prefer that we get better visibility, but certainly despite that and even the jobs report last week, things still are good. Would like to see some of that uncertainty in some of these trade deals if they're going to occur, the sooner the better because I think that that will help, I think, provide more confidence as we all move forward. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:51:55Thanks very much. Operator00:51:59Thank you. Next question today is coming from Robin Farley from UBS. Your line is now live. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:52:05Great. Thank you. My question was really kind of similar to the last question. Know, in your intro remarks, you mentioned, I think you used the phrase modestly weaker transient. And then you talked about some of the challenges with group, maybe some tougher comps later in the year. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:52:20I guess if you had to sort of rank where the strength or softness is between group and leisure transient and business transient, how would you sort of break down? I mean, it sounds like there's a lot going on in the world and maybe they're all a little bit softer than you thought, or I guess if you were ranking the three. Thanks. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:52:43Well, just for one, Robin, on the group side, again, as I mentioned, the pace and the definites on the books and that holding, I think, is a strength. It's certainly providing that solid base for the business and that to be able not to worry about that base as much, I think, kind of gives it, in this environment, kind of a top billing for me. From the leisure side, which you saw in April, ultimately Tom talked a little bit to Hawaiian Village, but absent Hawaiian Village, on the resort side, it's up, call it, 8% or so for the month. And this was a month where we came in and had dropped the forecast a little bit and outperformed it by about 160 basis points. You're seeing a lot of it's almost like people are thinking through like this is feel like a little bit like coming out of COVID where a lot of the drive to markets are benefiting and a lot of short term transient on leisure side. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:53:40So I kind of feel like leisure, to me, ranks second right now in the possibilities as you think about the summer time frames, transient in a lot of places, might think or might be a challenge, but I think we're seeing plenty of markets that have leisure pace up in the summertime. So I'd put leisure second. Think business transient, I think you think what's captured in that is government and some other elements, who I think are certainly pressured. But I think business transient, corporate negotiated still shows a very narrow booking window, short term, but very solid performance so far. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:54:18Thanks. Just to clarify, April, of course, would have a strong April in a lot of the leisure markets with the benefit of Easter. Is there anything when you look out to kind of May and June where there's not as much of a pronounced calendar shift, would you say leisure is still pacing up outside of the Easter shift? Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:54:45Yeah, would say when I look at I think June is healthier than May right now, Robin. So May, I think, is just kind of a month where I think we don't have the group strength at this point. And so I think May is a little bit softer month for us in the quarter, softness of the quarter. And I think June is stronger with some group backdrop and I think better leisure profile. Robin FarleyManaging Director at UBS Group00:55:10Great. Thank you. Operator00:55:12Thank you. Next question is coming from Chris Darling from Green Street. Your line is now live. Chris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:55:19Thanks. Good morning. Tom, I wanted Chris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:55:23to go back to the discussion around capital allocation. Just curious how you think about pursuing incremental share repurchases relative to perhaps bolstering your liquidity position? Obviously, a more certain economic outlook today and you think about some of the debt maturities coming due next year? Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:55:43Chris, it's a great question. Sean and I spend a lot of time and the team really studying it. I mean, obviously, we'd like to the extent possible take proceeds. And if we're buying back stock, want to do it on a neutral on a leverage neutral basis. We clearly want to continue investing back into the core portfolio as we've talked about it and obviously continuing to manage carefully the balance sheet. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:56:10I mean we've got over $1,200,000,000 in liquidity. Please keep in mind, obviously, the CMBS loan for Hilton Hawaiian Village matures in November, December of next year. We have a plan and we have optionality. Remember, during the pandemic, we did three bond deals, we pushed out maturities, we paid off all the banks, all the banks made fees. We have great banking relationships. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:56:47We're not reliant on the banks and we are carefully studying it and you'll see significant progress made on that maturity this year and we're confident that we'll get it addressed. So no fear or concern from that standpoint. Having said that, when you're trading at this kind of pricing, we certainly think buying back stock at these levels is certainly among the best investment decisions that we can make buying back into this core portfolio at this kind of pricing. So it's a balancing act. I think we've demonstrated it and we'll be careful and thoughtful about it. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:57:34And I think we've demonstrated that over time. Chris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:57:38All right. Makes sense. Appreciate the thoughts. Thank you. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:57:41All right. Thank you. Operator00:57:43Thank you. Next question is coming from Dani Assad from Bank of America. Your line is now live. Dany AsadDirector at Bank of America00:57:49Hi, good morning everybody. So maybe one more question on leisure, if you don't mind. Are you seeing any different patterns of behavior from your consumers staying at your higher end properties relative to non luxury resorts? Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:58:07Not in particular, Danny. I mean, clearly, certainly see better pricing out of the luxury side. You're certainly seeing places like Hawaiian Village where we're opening up channels to obviously drive more volume there because we're trying to recover, which is attracting a little more of a discount leisure. But I think outside of that, I don't think the patterns have really changed much Dany AsadDirector at Bank of America00:58:30in the Okay. Dany AsadDirector at Bank of America00:58:34And then one more, just your non rooms revenue grew about 200 basis points ahead of RevPAR for the quarter. Is there anything unique to Q1 that would drive this? And just how should we think about RevPAR versus out of room spend for the balance of the year with the updated outlook? Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:58:54Yes. We had some strong group catering contribution, up 9% in Q1. I think as we think about the contribution to overall RevPAR, about I'd say about 500 basis to 100 basis points added to RevPAR. As we discussed, group pace a little bit weaker as we go into Q3. So I think what's driving it overall for the year though and a little bit of strength certainly in Q1 is just the mix between in house kind of corporate in house and convention has shifted more in the favor of in house group this year. Sean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & Treasurer at Park Hotels & Resorts00:59:30So you're just going to get better F and B production on the catering side. Obviously, with convention business, you're just mostly getting room blocks off of that and they're eating elsewhere. So I think that's kind of a dramatic more of a significant shift for us this year. Operator00:59:46Thank you. We reached the end of our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the floor back over for any further or closing comments. Thomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts00:59:53We really appreciate everybody taking time today and we look forward to seeing you all at upcoming conferences. Operator01:00:02Thank you. That does conclude today's teleconference and webcast. You may disconnect your line at this time and have a wonderful day. We thank you for your participation today.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesIan WeissmanSenior Vice President of Corporate StrategyThomas BaltimoreChairman, President & CEOSean Dell'OrtoExecutive VP, CFO & TreasurerAnalystsFloris van DijkumManaging Director at Compass Point Research & TradingDavid KatzManaging Director at JefferiesDuane PfennigwerthSenior Managing Director at Evercore ISIC. Patrick ScholesManaging Director - Lodging & Leisure Equity Research at Truist SecuritiesSmedes RoseDirector at CitiChris WoronkaAnalyst at Deutsche BankJay KornreichVP - Equity Research at Wedbush SecuritiesRobin FarleyManaging Director at UBS GroupChris DarlingSenior Analyst at Green Street Advisors, LLCDany AsadDirector at Bank of AmericaPowered by