Tuniu Q2 2026 Earnings Report

Tuniu EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.03
• Consensus EPS: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Tuniu Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $20.45 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Tuniu Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 8/25/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 8:00AM ET

Tuniu (NASDAQ:TOUR) International Limited is a China-based online leisure travel company that operates a comprehensive travel services platform under the brand name Tuniu (NASDAQ: TOUR). Headquartered in Nanjing, the company was founded in 2006 and was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in May 2010. Tuniu completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market in December 2014, positioning itself to expand its suite of digital travel offerings and strengthen its strategic partnerships with suppliers and local agencies.

The company’s flagship platform, tuniu.com, provides a broad array of travel products and services, including packaged group tours, customized private tours, independent travel solutions, corporate travel management, hotel and resort bookings, air ticketing, cruise vacations and car rentals. Tuniu leverages technology—such as data analytics and artificial intelligence—to enhance personalized travel recommendations, streamline booking processes and optimize pricing. Its platform integrates inventory sourced from first-party operators as well as third-party suppliers, enabling a wide selection of travel options for consumers.

Tuniu primarily serves the domestic Chinese leisure travel market, catering to both individual and group travelers. The company also facilitates outbound travel experiences to popular destinations across Asia, Europe and the Americas. Supporting its online platform is a network of regional offices and customer service centers throughout China, as well as mobile applications that allow users to plan, book and manage trips on the go. Tuniu continues to focus on expanding its product portfolio and deepening supplier relationships to capture growth opportunities in China’s evolving travel sector.

Tuniu Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Q2 net revenue increased 3% year over year to RMB 138.9 million, while packaged-tour revenue grew 7% to RMB 121.1 million, driven primarily by organized tours.
• Positive Sentiment: Tuniu achieved its sixth consecutive quarter of non-GAAP profitability, with non-GAAP net income of RMB 2.2 million, and generated RMB 46.9 million in operating cash flow while holding RMB 1 billion in cash and investments.
• Neutral Sentiment: The company expanded small-group, private, customized, self-driving, premium, and hotel-based products, while live-streaming and offline-store transaction volumes each grew at double-digit rates year over year; its network now includes approximately 500 stores.
• Negative Sentiment: Profitability remained pressured as gross profit fell 11% and sales and marketing expenses rose 22%; outbound travel faced weakness in destinations such as the Middle East and Africa, while lower-margin self-guided products grew faster domestically.
• Neutral Sentiment: Tuniu expects Q3 revenue of RMB 202.1 million to RMB 212.2 million, implying year-over-year growth of 0% to 5%, and said it aims to remain profitable despite continued uncertainty in outbound travel.

Presentation

[Operator]

Hello, and thank you for standing by for Tuniu's 2026 second quarter earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After management's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the meeting over to your host for today's conference call, Director of Investor Relations, Mary.

[Mary Chen, Director of Investor Relations at Tuniu]

Thank you, and welcome to our 2026 second quarter earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today are Donald Yu, Tuniu's Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, and Anqiang Chen, Tuniu's Financial Controller. For today's agenda, management will discuss business updates, operation highlights, and financial performance for the second quarter of 2026. Before we continue, I refer you to our safe harbor statement in the earnings press release, which applies to this call, as we will make forward-looking statements. Also, this call includes discussions of certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to our earnings release, which contains a reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. Finally, please note that unless otherwise stated, all figures mentioned during this conference call are in CNY. I would now like to turn the call over to our Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Donald Yu.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

Thank you, Mary. Good day, everyone. Welcome to our second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Supported by favorable policies such as the introduction of spring breaks, the domestic travel market maintained steady growth in the second quarter. Meanwhile, the overall travel market faced some uncertainties, with certain outbound destinations experiencing headwinds. Despite these challenges, we maintained revenue growth in the second quarter and achieved non-GAAP profitability for the sixth consecutive quarter. During the quarter, we continued to execute our diversified product and sales channels strategy. Guided by customer needs, we further enriched our product offerings across categories, destinations, and price tiers. For our sales channels, we continued to work with a broad range of partners to better reach different customer segments. Let me walk you through some of our key initiatives in more detail.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

On the product side, as customers increasingly seek more personalized tours and flexible travel options, we have continued to expand and refine our product portfolio. First, we further expanded our product offerings to include more small group tours, private tours, customized tours, self-driving tours, and other travel-related products. Small group tours have been well received by younger travelers for their flexibility and strong value proposition. While private tours have gained popularity among family travelers for their more personalized and private travel experience. To better serve the needs of self-guided travelers, we also expanded our hotel-centric self-guided tour products and broadened our portfolio of other travel-related products, including hotels, car rentals, and destination experiences.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

Second, in addition to enhancing our new tour products for the mass market and our value-oriented New Select series, we introduced a number of premium private tour products during the quarter to meet demand from customers seeking higher quality travel experiences. These products feature premium accommodations, dedicated car services, and other upgraded travel experiences. For example, our premium private tour package to Singapore for the summer season, launched in late June, has been well received by family travelers, with sales volume exceeding 10 million RMB to date. We've also continued to expand our product offerings for different customer segments. For family-oriented customers, we launched a range of travel products during the spring break season centered on Eastern China. For senior travelers, we introduced longer duration organized tours of more than 15 days, as well as off-peak travel products scheduled outside major holiday periods.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

By better aligning our products with the preferences of different customer segments, these offerings have delivered higher conversion and redemption rates. On the sales side, we adopted more targeted marketing initiatives. We launched a series of online seminars inviting customers interested in specific products or destinations to learn more through detailed presentations and interactive activities, helping deepen customer engagement and interest. We also introduced dedicated live streaming shows focused on specific products and destinations, providing viewers with more in-depth and specialized content. These targeted live streaming shows have generally delivered higher redemption rates. In addition to more targeted product offerings and marketing initiatives, we continued to expand our partnerships across sales channels. In live streaming, we further extended our presence to multiple major platforms while also deepening cooperation with MCN agencies.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

Leveraging our comprehensive portfolio of high-quality leisure travel products and well-established fulfillment capabilities, together with the extensive viewer reach of our MCN partners, we are able to increase sales scale and expand our customer base. In the second quarter, both payment and verification volume generated through our live streaming channels continued to record double-digit year-over-year growth. In the second quarter, transaction volume from our offline stores have also continued to record double-digit year-over-year growth. As of today, we operate approximately 500 offline stores. Our offline store network has contributed to sales growth and expanded the reach of our service network. While we continue to provide stores with tailored products that help them better sell and attract local customers. During the second quarter, demand for customized tour travel solutions from corporate clients increased.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

Leveraging our industry experience and high-quality products and services, we worked with a number of well-known enterprises to plan and deliver corporate travel tours, including team-building activities and incentive travel. From a technology perspective, we have integrated AI into a broader range of workflows, such as building knowledge bases, creating promotional materials, and assisting with order processing. AI tools have become valuable assistance to many employees, helping them work more efficiently while reducing operating costs. On the customer side, we upgraded our travel AI agent, AI Assistant Xiaoniu, with integrated booking and order processing capabilities. Customers can now complete the entire booking process for standalone travel products, including flights, hotels, and attraction tickets through AI, from initial inquiry to final booking.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

In addition, AI Assistant Xiaoniu can search, plan, and compare itineraries based on different travel scenarios such as business trips or vacations, as well as customers' individual preferences, delivering a more personalized travel planning experience. As we enter the summer travel season, we are well-positioned to support the increased demand during the peak travel period. While there may still be some uncertainties in the second half of the year, we are confident in the growth of travel demand and the resilience of both the travel industry and our business. We remain committed to providing customers with high quality products and services. I will now turn the call over to Anqiang Chen, our Financial Controller, for the financial highlights.

[Anqiang Chen, Financial Controller at Tuniu]

Thank you, Donald Yu. Hello, everyone. Now, I will walk you through our Q2 2026 financial results in greater detail. Please note that all monetary amounts are in RMB unless otherwise stated. You can find the US dollar equivalents of the numbers in our earnings release. For Q2 2026, net revenues were RMB 138.9 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 3% from the corresponding period in 2025. Revenues from packaged tours were up 7% year-over-year to RMB 121.1 million and accounted for 87% of our total net revenues for the quarter. The increase was primarily due to the growth of organized tours. Other revenues were down 17% year-over-year to RMB 17.8 million and accounted for 13% of our total net revenues. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in the fees for advertising services provided to tourism boards and bureaus.

[Anqiang Chen, Financial Controller at Tuniu]

Gross profits for Q2 2026 were RMB 76.4 million, down 11% year-over-year. Operating expenses for Q2 2026 were RMB 82.5 million, up 5% year-over-year. Research and product development expenses for Q2 2026 were RMB 13.8 million, down 16% year-over-year. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in research and product development personnel-related expenses. Sales and marketing expenses for Q2 2026 were RMB 54.7 million, up 22% year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to the increase in promotion expenses. General and administrative expenses for Q2 2026 were RMB 14.1 million, down 20% year-over-year. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in general and administrative personnel-related expenses. Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders of Tuniu Corporation was RMB 0.7 million in Q2 2026.

[Anqiang Chen, Financial Controller at Tuniu]

Non-GAAP net income attributable to ordinary shareholders of Tuniu Corporation, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, was RMB 2.2 million in Q2 2026. As of June 30, 2026, the company had cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments, and long-term deposits of RMB 1 billion. Cash flow generated from operations for Q2 2026 was RMB 46.9 million. Capital expenditures for Q2 2026 were RMB 1.4 million. For the third quarter of 2026, the company expects to generate RMB 202.1 million to RMB 212.2 million of net revenues, which represents a 0% to 5% increase year-over-year. Please note that this forecast reflects Tuniu's current and preliminary view on the industry and its operations, which is subject to change. Thank you for listening. We are now ready for your questions. Operator?

[Operator]

The question and answer session of this conference call will start in a moment. In order to be fair to all callers who wish to ask questions, we will take one question at a time from each caller. If you have more than one question, please request to join the question queue again after your first question has been addressed. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question comes from Sarah Zhao, a private investor. Please go ahead.

[Sarah Zhao, Analyst at Private Investor]

Hi, management. Thank you for the opportunity. Two questions here. First, could you please share the reasons for the decrease in net profit in the second quarter? Second, could you provide more details about travel bookings in the summer, and also the outlook for the profitability of the quarter? Thank you.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

Thank you for the questions. In the second quarter, the domestic travel market continued to grow steadily, whereas the outbound travel market met some headwinds at certain destinations. The headwinds directly impacted leisure travel to certain destinations. For example, the Middle East and Africa recorded over 20% year-over-year decrease of transaction volume during the quarter. As a result, outbound tours accounted for about 30% of our total GMV for the second quarter, compared to over one-third in the same period last year. Moreover, the promotional activities from certain destinations were suspended. In the second quarter, our other revenues decreased about 70% year-over-year, mainly due to a reduction in fees for advertising services we provided. In the domestic market, we see more rapid growth in self-guided tour products, such as our Hotel Plus X products. These products are usually less profitable than organized tours.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

For the summer vacation, domestic travel markets maintain steady growth momentum. High-quality organized tour products, such as small group tours and private tours, are welcomed by customers. Some of our MCN partners select only small group tour products to recommend to their viewers. Outbound market continues to face some uncertainties, which drags down the growth of outbound travel. Destinations such as Middle East still recorded negative growth in July. But other destinations, such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Americas, grew healthily during the summer. Besides, many people choose off-peak travels this year. With more holidays introduced, we are seeing transaction volume become more evenly spread across the months. For example, since the coming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday are very close to each other, many people plan to take a longer vacation connecting the two holidays. Therefore, we are seeing bookings in the last week of September are surging.

[Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Tuniu]

Year-to-date, as of today, travels to long-haul outbound destinations such as Americas and Oceania during the week, we have already surpassed the same period last year. Lastly, although we don't give specific profit outlook, we are trying to achieve profitability for another quarter. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. Did that answer your questions, Sarah?

[Sarah Zhao, Analyst at Private Investor]

Yes.

[Operator]

Thank you. Again, if you have a question, please press star then one. We are now approaching the end of the conference call. I will now turn the call over to Tuniu's Director of Investor Relations, Mary, for closing remarks.

[Mary Chen, Director of Investor Relations at Tuniu]

Once again, thank you for joining us today. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions. Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to speaking with you in the coming months.

[Operator]

Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Good day.

Participants

Executives

• Mary Chen, Director of Investor Relations
• Donald Yu, Founder, Chairman, and CEO

Analysts

• Anqiang Chen, Financial Controller at Tuniu
• Sarah Zhao, Analyst at Private Investor