Park Hotels & Resorts Q2 2026 Earnings Report

Park Hotels & Resorts EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.24
• Consensus EPS: $0.24
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.00
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.64

Park Hotels & Resorts Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $680.00 million
• Expected Revenue: $659.68 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$20.32 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +1.20%

Park Hotels & Resorts Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 8/5/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Friday, August 7, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in luxury and upper-upscale hospitality properties. The company’s primary business activity involves owning and leasing premier hotels and resorts across major urban and resort destinations. Through long-term management and franchise agreements with leading hotel operators, Park generates revenue from room nights, food and beverage offerings, meetings and events, and ancillary services.

Since its spin-off from Hilton Worldwide in January 2017, Park Hotels & Resorts has assembled a diversified portfolio of more than 60 properties. These assets are located in gateway markets such as New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, D.C., as well as high-barrier resort destinations including Hawaii, Florida and Las Vegas. The company’s strategy focuses on accretive acquisitions, selective dispositions of non-core assets and disciplined capital allocation to enhance total returns for shareholders.

Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, Park Hotels & Resorts is led by President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Baltimore, who brings decades of experience in real estate and hospitality to the role. Under his leadership, the company has pursued balance-sheet optimization, operational excellence and sustainability initiatives aimed at improving guest experience and driving long-term value. Park’s management team continues to evaluate growth opportunities in key global markets while maintaining a strong commitment to corporate governance and responsible investing.

Park Hotels & Resorts Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Second-quarter results exceeded expectations, with comparable RevPAR up nearly 7% excluding Royal Palm South Beach, hotel adjusted EBITDA up nearly 9% to $204 million, and adjusted FFO of $0.70 per share.
• Positive Sentiment: Strong group and leisure demand drove broad-based gains, including double-digit RevPAR growth at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Bonnet Creek, Key West, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Full-year 2026 group revenue pace is up nearly 6%, while third-quarter pace is up more than 15%.
• Positive Sentiment: Park raised full-year guidance, increasing RevPAR growth expectations to 3%-4.5%, adjusted EBITDA guidance to $617 million-$637 million, and adjusted FFO guidance to $1.90-$2.00 per share. July RevPAR rose 8.5%, supporting the stronger outlook.
• Positive Sentiment: The company reopened the redeveloped Royal Palm South Beach on July 22 after a more than $100 million renovation and expects the property to contribute approximately $28 million of stabilized EBITDA. Management also cited significant upside from completed and ongoing investments in Hawaii, Orlando, Key West, and other core assets.
• Neutral Sentiment: Park continued selling non-core assets and has disposed of 10 of 19 identified hotels, generating nearly $200 million of proceeds, with plans to materially reduce remaining exposure by year-end. However, net debt remained approximately $3.7 billion, or 6.1 times net debt to EBITDA, and the upcoming Aliʻi Tower renovation will temporarily remove 348 rooms from service.

Presentation

[Operator]

Greetings, and welcome to the Park Hotels & Resorts second quarter 2026 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Ian Weissman. Please go ahead.

[Ian Weissman, SVP of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Thank you, operator, and welcome everyone to the Park Hotels & Resorts second quarter 2026 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. We are not obligated to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements. Actual 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-K and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.

[Ian Weissman, SVP of Corporate Strategy at Park Hotels & Resorts]

In addition, on today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial information such as adjusted FFO and adjusted EBITDA. You can find this information together with reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure in yesterday's earnings release, as well as in our 8-K 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 hotel basis. This morning, Thomas Baltimore, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will provide an update on our strategic initiatives and review Park's second quarter performance and outlook for the year. Sean Dell'Orto, our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will provide updates on our capital investments and additional color on guidance. Following our prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Thomas.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Thank you, Ian and welcome everyone. I am pleased to report that Park delivered another outstanding quarter with results meaningfully exceeding our expectations and demonstrating the continued strength and resilience of our portfolio. RevPAR increased nearly 7% year-over-year, excluding Royal Palm South Beach, with growth accelerating from approximately 4% in April to 5% in May and over 11% in June. Performance was driven by strong group demand and higher rated leisure travel across the portfolio, highlighted by the exceptional strength in Hawaii. As a result, resort RevPAR increased more than 9% excluding Royal Palm, while our urban portfolio delivered nearly 4% RevPAR growth. These results reflect both the pace of demand across our markets and the benefits of our disciplined capital investment strategy.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Notably, our strongest performance continues to come from assets where we have invested significant capital in recent years, including Orlando, Key West, and Hawaii, underscoring the value creation and outsized returns generated by our targeted reinvestment initiatives. Hawaii was among the top performers, with RevPAR increasing approximately 9% year-over-year and accelerating meaningfully from the first quarter. Performance improved sequentially each month, driven by a significant increase in leisure demand and strong in-house group activity, which more than offset the loss of citywide business resulting from the partial closure of the Honolulu Convention Center, which is expected to remain closed through 2027. Hilton Hawaiian Village was the clear standout, with RevPAR increasing nearly 12% and EBITDA growing more than 13%.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Property continued to gain market share throughout the quarter, ending June with a RevPAR index of 117, representing a four-point improvement compared to June 2024 or prior to the commencement of the Rainbow Tower renovation. The hotel's momentum continued into July with occupancy of 98%, or a nearly 700 basis point improvement year-over-year, and preliminary RevPAR growth of over 6%. Both Hilton Hawaiian Village and Hilton Waikoloa Village are benefiting from our recent capital investments as the renovated Rainbow and Palace Towers are generating strong guest demand and meaningful rate premiums. Hawaii is demonstrating why it remains one of the most attractive resort markets in the country. Demand trends are healthy, with the Hawaii Tourism Authority recently raising its 2026 visitor arrivals forecast by a full percentage point to nearly 2%, supported by growth from East Coast markets and improving international trends.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Several major airlines, including Alaska, Delta, and Southwest, have also announced increased airlift to Hawaii for the remainder of the year. We remain confident that both hotels still have significant runway for future growth as they recover back to their 2023 peak earnings levels. With the Rainbow Tower and Palace Tower renovations now complete, and the Ali'i Tower renovation at Hilton Hawaiian Village about to commence, we believe the setup for 2027 and beyond is exceptionally strong. Turning to Florida, our Bonnet Creek complex and Key West properties once again delivered outstanding results with RevPAR growth of 13% and 10% respectively, underscoring the strength of our capital investments and the sustained demand for Florida's premier resort destinations. At Bonnet Creek, the complex achieved record second quarter rooms and food and beverage revenue for the third consecutive year, further validating the significant investments we have made in the assets.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Both the Waldorf Astoria Orlando and the Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek contribute exceptional performance, with RevPAR increasing nearly 15% and 12%, respectively. Remarkably, Waldorf Astoria's food and beverage revenue surpassed last year's record by 24%, driven by strong outlet performance and meaningful group contributions. We were also pleased to see the Waldorf Astoria Orlando recognized on Travel + Leisure's 2026 World's Best list. In Key West, second quarter rooms and food and beverage revenue also reached new record levels, supported by strong leisure demand and continued growth in group business. Casa Marina led performance, with RevPAR increasing more than 14% year-over-year as the property's repositioning continued to drive gains in market share, which was up over eight points in the quarter to a RevPAR index of over 120.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

The resort also delivered record food and beverage results with a 36% year-over-year increase, benefiting from enhanced restaurant offerings and the continued success of Dorado, highlighting the strong returns generated by our recent investments. Our urban portfolio was another source of strength during the quarter. Washington, D.C. led the way with nearly 17% RevPAR growth as government-related demand increased. Chicago delivered nearly 12% RevPAR growth, supported by strong group and transient demand and exceptionally strong banquet and catering results, which drove meaningful profit growth, while Hyatt Regency Boston benefited from continued strength in group and citywide business, along with demand associated with the Boston Marathon and World Cup matches, resulting in nearly 9% RevPAR growth. Turning to group demand, which was a major contributor to our second quarter's outperformance.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Group rooms revenue increased 9.5% year-over-year, led by strength in Washington, D.C., Orlando, and Chicago, while June group revenue increased nearly 23%. Full year 2026 group revenue pace is now up nearly 6% compared with the same time last year, representing a meaningful improvement from last month, while third quarter group pace is up over 15%. We remain encouraged by overall group booking trends for the balance of the year, supported by continued strength in corporate groups, in-house events, and citywide activity across several of our core markets. Looking ahead to 2027, group revenue pace for our core portfolio is up over 6%, with double-digit increases in Hawaii, New York, Key West, and San Francisco, providing us with further confidence in the continued strength of group demand.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

On the capital allocation front, we continue to execute our strategy of recycling capital out of underperforming non-core assets while enhancing the quality and long-term growth profile of our portfolio. Since our May earnings call, we have completed three additional dispositions. In May, we sold our ownership interest in an unconsolidated joint venture that owns and operates the 288 room Embassy Suites Old Town Alexandria, for gross proceeds of $29 million. In June, we exited the 262 room Embassy Suites Austin through the termination of the short-term ground lease and sale of the hotel's operating assets, generating approximately $6 million of proceeds. Most recently, in July, completed the sale of the 314 room Hilton Short Hills for $12 million. These transactions represent another step forward toward simplifying the company, lowering future capital needs, concentrating our portfolio on higher quality assets with stronger growth prospects and more durable earnings.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Since announcing our plan in early 2025 to exit our remaining non-core assets, we have sold or disposed of 10 of the 19 identified hotels, generating nearly $200 million of proceeds at an average multiple of approximately 12.5 times EBITDA. Since the spin, we have now sold or disposed of 55 assets for more than $3 billion. We continue to make solid progress with the remaining non-core hotels, which today account for less than 5% of the portfolio's value, and remain firmly committed to materially reducing our exposure by year-end, with active marketing efforts underway for several assets. As always, we remain disciplined and laser-focused on executing transactions that strengthen our earnings, improve the long-term growth profile of the portfolio, and maximize shareholder value. Turning to capital investments.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We are thrilled to have officially reopened the Royal Palm South Beach on July 22nd, following the successful completion of its transformative redevelopment, which was completed in just 15 months as planned. More than $100 million project included the comprehensive renovation of all 393 existing guest rooms, the addition of 11 new keys, a complete reimagination of the lobby and public spaces, four new food and beverage concepts, and significant enhancements to the hotel's meeting and event facilities. We believe Royal Palm is now exceptionally well-positioned to capitalize on ongoing strength of the South Florida market and compete more effectively within the upper upscale and luxury segments. Upon stabilization, which we expect could occur over the next two years, we believe this investment has the potential to double the hotel's EBITDA.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

More importantly, serves as another compelling example of our unique ability to create substantial shareholder value through targeted capital investments that enhance asset quality, strengthen competitive positioning, and unlock meaningful earnings growth. We would also like to recognize our design and construction team for their exceptional execution of this complex project. Their efforts further demonstrate Park's core competency to diligently evaluate and timely execute complex capital projects that will unlock embedded value across our portfolio. As we look at the balance of the year, I remain encouraged by the continued strength across our portfolio. Despite some geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds, U.S. economy continues to show strength, benefiting from a resilient consumer a stable labor market, and ongoing business investment supporting demand across both leisure and group travel.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Combined with the reopening of the Royal Palm South Beach and strong group booking momentum, we believe Park is well-positioned to deliver solid results through the remainder of 2026 and beyond. I am also incredibly proud of the progress our team has made in strengthening the portfolio through disciplined capital allocation, active capital recycling, and proactive balance sheet management, which has strengthened Park's earnings power and long-term growth profile while enhancing our financial flexibility. Beyond this year, I am equally optimistic following the planned completion of the Ali'i Tower renovation at Hilton Hawaiian Village, expected in early 2027. We will have completed nearly $350 million of transformative capital investments across our Hawaii portfolio. As a result, our Hawaiian resorts will be exceptionally well-positioned to capitalize on the continued recovery in the market and further narrow the approximately $60 million EBIT gap, EBITDA gap relative to their 2023 peak earnings level.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

At the same time, as operations at Royal Palm South Beach ramp, we expect the property, upon stabilization, to contribute approximately $28 million of EBITDA over the next few years. Together with the continued benefits of our capital recycling program and core portfolio focus, these catalysts reinforce our confidence in Park's ability to drive meaningful earnings growth and create substantial long-term value for shareholders. With that, I will turn the call over to Sean.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Thanks, Thomas. We're very pleased with our second quarter results, which came in well ahead of expectations. Total portfolio RevPAR increased nearly 6% to $217. As Thomas noted earlier, increased nearly 7% year-over-year, excluding Royal Palm. Total hotel revenue increased 6% during the quarter, while hotel adjusted EBITDA increased nearly 9% to $204 million. Resulting in a hotel adjusted EBITDA margin of nearly 32%, up 80 basis points year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA total of $198 million and adjusted FFO per share was $0.70. The quarter's outperformance was driven by a balance of increasing group and leisure demand. As Thomas noted earlier, group was up 9.5%, exceeding expectations by 700 basis points, with strong in-the-quarter, for-the-quarter pickup in the in-house corporate and SMERF segments. While the leisure transient segment grew by over 13% and exceeded expectations by nearly 500 basis points.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

This pickup translated to stronger than expected operating results at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, our Bonnet Creek complex, and Casa Marina, as well as at our hotels in Chicago, Santa Barbara, and Washington, D.C., each of which generated double-digit year-over-year RevPAR growth during the quarter. We also realized a modest benefit from the FIFA World Cup across our host city markets of New York, Boston, and San Francisco, consistent with the lower end of our expectations, contributing roughly 30 basis points towards full-year portfolio RevPAR growth, essentially offsetting the 30 basis point drag expected from Royal Palm this year. Turning to capital investments, during the second quarter, we invested a total of $64 million in capital improvements, with full-year CapEx expected to range between $230 million-$260 million. In Hawaii, we are set to commence the comprehensive renovation of the 348-room Ali'i Tower at Hilton Hawaiian Village this month.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

This investment of approximately $100 million will include a complete renovation of all guest rooms and the addition of three more keys within the premium oceanfront tower, along with enhancements to food and beverage outlets, including the Tropics Bar & Grill and the poolside outlet, MixBar, all of which are expected to be completed early next year. Upon completion, nearly 80% of the guest rooms across the nearly 3,000-room Hilton Hawaiian Village complex will have been fully renovated. Finally, in New Orleans, we commenced the third and final phase of the main tower guest room renovation in May, encompassing the remaining 489 guest rooms and expected to be completed by mid-October. Upon completion, all 1,600+ guest rooms will have been fully renovated, significantly enhancing the quality and competitiveness of one of our most important convention-oriented assets.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the second quarter with net debt of approximately $3.7 billion, translating to a net debt to EBITDA ratio of 6.1 times, roughly 0.2 of a turn lower than last quarter. Equity was $2.6 billion, including $260 million in cash, $1 billion of available capacity under our revolver, $600 million under our delayed draw term loan, and the $700 million Bonnet Creek delayed draw financing. During the quarter, we drew $200 million under the delayed draw term loan and used a portion of the proceeds to repay the $120 million Hyatt Regency Boston mortgage ahead of its July maturity. Looking ahead, we intend to use the remaining delayed draw term loan capacity together with the Bonnet Creek proceeds to fully repay the $1.27 billion Hilton Hawaiian Village mortgage in September and also plan to refinance the Hilton Santa Barbara mortgage later this year.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

These transactions are expected to meaningfully extend our debt maturities and further enhance our financial flexibility. With respect to our dividend, on July 15th, we paid our 2Q cash dividend of $0.25 per share. On July 31st, the board approved a 3Q cash dividend of $0.25 per share to be paid on October 15th to stockholders of record as of September 30th. The dividend currently translates to an annualized yield of approximately 6.5% based on recent trading levels. Turning to guidance, we are increasing both our RevPAR and earnings guidance ranges to reflect our 2Q outperformance and strong start to the 3Q as demand trends continue to exceed expectations across our portfolio. Accordingly, we are raising our full-year RevPAR outlook by approximately 225 basis points at the midpoint to a new range of 3%-4.5%.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

This updated outlook reflects the roughly 370 basis points of outperformance delivered during the 2Q, as well as stronger than anticipated results at the start of the 3Q, with July RevPAR increasing 8.5%, driven by continued strength in Hawaii, Key West, Boston, Santa Barbara, and Washington, D.C. Based on current booking trends and recent operating performance, we now expect 3Q RevPAR growth to trend toward the upper end of our revised guidance range and exceed prior expectations. From an earnings perspective, we are increasing adjusted EBITDA guidance by approximately $25 million at the midpoint to a new range of $617 million-$637 million. While adjusted FFO guidance increases by approximately $0.13 per share at the midpoint to a new range of $1.90-$2.00 per share.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

This increase to guidance also reflects an assumed increase in expenses of 3%-4%, with a stronger demand environment and higher occupancy expectations across the portfolio, driving increases in variable costs such as labor and utilities, partially offset by reductions in fixed costs, with $11 million in benefits achieved from successful property tax appeals in the 2Q and a 20% reduction in property insurance premiums achieved during the June 1st renewal of our program. In addition, with respect to Royal Palm, our outlook assumes only a modest earnings contribution from the hotel in the back half of the year. With more meaningful earnings growth expected in 2027 and 2028 as the hotel ramps towards stabilization. We are encouraged by initial booking trends, with group and transient ADRs for the balance of this year up 21% and 53% respectively compared to pre-renovation levels and tracking ahead of our expectations.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

These early results reinforce our confidence in the property's long-term earnings potential. Royal Palm is one of South Florida's premier lifestyle resort assets, and we continue to expect meaningful earnings growth as occupancy, ADR, and ancillary revenues build through the stabilization period. We look forward to welcoming many of you to the property during our November investor tour and showcasing the exceptional transformation firsthand. Finally, the recently completed dispositions of the three non-core assets Thomas spoke to earlier are expected to reduce second half EBITDA by approximately $3.5 million, which has been reflected in our updated guidance. This concludes our prepared remarks. We will now open the line for Q&A. To address each of your questions, we ask that you limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Operator, may we have the first question, please?

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Our first question will come from Floris van Dijkum with Ladenburg Thalmann.

[Floris van Dijkum, Analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann]

Hey, thanks, guys.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Morning, Floris. How are you?

[Floris van Dijkum, Analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann]

Hey, morning. Obviously, results are solid, and the sale of non-core makes it easier to see the quality of the portfolio. You've outlined in the past sort of upside in EBITDA. I think you said about $100 million of EBITDA over 2025 levels simply from Hawaii and the Royal Palm Beach. Then there's an incremental potential other $100 million probably from urban and from Orlando and other assets that you have. Maybe talk a little bit about the timing of when you think that potential $200 million of EBITDA could hit the botto line in the portfolio.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Okay. Floris, thank you for your question and appreciate all the listeners. I think the $200 million might be a little overstated. We've really focused more around $100 million. That would be sort of the $60 million-$70 million sort of recovery of Hawaii. Of course, as both Sean and I mentioned in our prepared remarks, about $28 million plus or minus upon stabilization for Royal Palm. I would sort of anchor you in that, I would just step back and think again about what we've been saying for several quarters and the last few years. We've been laser-focused on reshaping the portfolio. We've sold or disposed of now 55 assets for north of $3 billion. We're really down to 21 core hotels, and that's nine sort of remaining non-core that only account for less than 5% of value of the company.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I think that's important. Three of those nine are part of the dispute, which don't really require a lot of discussion at this point, and only about $16 million in EBITDA. The other six assets account for approximately $35 million in EBITDA. We've got work streams underway. We are making, as promised, significant progress, and we expect to be substantially complete by the end of the year. Secondarily, we have been laser-focused and relentless on really demonstrating our track record with these transformative renovations. We've said before, We'll say again, we think we can generate higher development yields over acquisition yields. If you think about Bonnet Creek and the extraordinary success we're having with that property, if you think about the Key West two assets in our portfolio there, again, outstanding and outsized results. Hilton Hawaiian Village with Tapa Tower, the Rainbow Tower.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

What's amazing about Hawaii when you step back, the market was largely flat. We grew at Hilton Hawaiian Village up 12%. Hilton Waikoloa, even though down slightly because of coming back online after renovating the Palace Tower, again, still gaining share at Hilton Hawaiian Village pretty dramatically there. Again, as you think about New Orleans and the work that we've got underway there in the third phase, Royal Palm, as we mentioned, having that completed on time. Very bullish as we think about the future. I think strong execution on part of the team across the board, whether it's selling the non-core, whether it's obviously the transformative renovations, we continue to create value. A lot of that being organic, and we think that's a way that Park can really separate itself as we move forward.

[Floris van Dijkum, Analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann]

Thanks, Thomas. My follow-up is actually regarding the capital allocation towards redevelopment or ROI projects. You guys have had a really strong track record of getting, call it 20%-ish returns on invested capital in Orlando and in Key West. You've got a number of other potential projects in the pipeline as well. Could you maybe touch on the A and B tower, the additional tower in Hilton Hawaiian Village, Santa Barbara, and I believe Waikoloa, and how investors should think about investment and deployment into those assets over the next two or three years?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I would, again, make the broad statement. I think we have an underappreciated, iconic portfolio, and when you step back and look at it, there really are improving fundamentals, and I think outsized growth opportunities from 2026, the second half, really through 2028. Those are markets in Hawaii. That's Miami, that's Key West, that's Orlando. If you step back and think about Hawaii again, the Ali'i Tower, oceanfront premium tower, a hotel within a hotel. It's got its own check-in. We're going to close that down, 348 keys, here in the coming weeks with the expectation that we will reopen that in early next year. Could not be more excited. I think it'll again demonstrate Carl Mayfield and his design and construction team at Park and their extraordinary work. We're excited.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Again, the whole objective is closing that $60 million-$70 million gap that we've been talking about in Hawaii. Royal Palm, as we mentioned is now open. I would also reemphasize open largely on time as we communicated, as we planned. There are many hoteliers some in our space and others outside, that there are $4 billion± in development projects in Miami. The fact that we were on time, largely on budget is a real credit to our unique ability to both plan and execute these types of projects. As you think about Bonnet Creek, we've continued to get growth and market share gains there. We've taken Bonnet Creek from $62 million in EBITDA. We're tracking towards $105 million-$110 million this year. We are still not at fair share. Let me repeat that again.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We're up 60%-70% in cash flow, but we are still not at fair share. Very competitive comp set, but it still gives us the opportunity for additional growth there, which addresses your issue about us continuing to grow cash flow. Really excited about that. Key West continues to outperform as we outlined across the board. Again, very strong RevPAR index performance there as well. Hilton Santa Barbara is another that we look at along with our partner that we think a comprehensive renovation there could generate outsized returns as well. Those are what I would call in the lineup outsized opportunities for significant growth. The A and B tower, really don't want to talk about. Our plan there is to get it entitled.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We do not think it makes sense to move forward with that at any point in the near future and are more focused on the existing towers at this time. With that, I'll stop. I know we've got other people in the queue.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question will come from Duane Pfennigwerth with Evercore ISI.

[Duane Pfennigwerth, Analyst at Evercore ISI]

Hey, thank you.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Hey, Duane.

[Duane Pfennigwerth, Analyst at Evercore ISI]

Good morning. Just given the sell-down of non-core hotels and the completion of the Miami asset, the Royal Palm, can you just speak to the longer-term trajectory of capital spending? Is this an above-average year? Should it bend down, or is this a level we should think about sustaining going forward?

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Hey, Duane, this is Sean. I think it's safe to say it's something that we would think is coming down. From a maintenance CapEx standpoint, clearly it's elevated because we've done some of these big ROI projects like Royal Palm. Proceeding that, we've clearly done a lot of investment in Florida between Bonnet Creek and Casa Marina the last couple of years prior to this year. In the end, I think you see it more of a, absent any big ROI projects, it's more of a maintenance CapEx that's going to be south of $200 million on a run rate basis. As we think about some of these projects and certainly think about an overall capital allocation strategies, and ultimately what the market's driving, maybe if we ultimately see a different project that makes sense from an ROI perspective, the CapEx could increase from there.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

From a baseline, I would say it's coming down to below $200 million.

[Duane Pfennigwerth, Analyst at Evercore ISI]

Thanks for that. Then just with respect to the upgrading guidance and across the sector, probably some of this is just good job expectation setting by the CFOs, but I guess, what was your biggest surprise as you look at your own portfolio in 2Q, and specifically what's embedded in the second half? Maybe it's the same answer, maybe it's a different answer. What was the biggest surprise relative to your own internal expectations?

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Look, I would say it was a broad-based surprise in a sense. I think the portfolio overall performed really well. Clearly, in Q1 earnings, we were talking about guidance. We still were looking at somewhat of an uncertain world. With gas prices going up and all the things we know about, you certainly had some hesitation there and some uncertainty. The surprise to see the resilience in the consumer and seeing, and which translated to good leisure growth in the quarter for the quarter pickup, really drove group for us 700 basis points better than expected. It was across the board. We do see early good start to Q3, and we certainly think that can continue some of these baseline macro elements here. That said, we will certainly want to make sure that we're continuing to exceed expectations. We're setting things appropriately.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Duane, I would agree with everything Sean noted. I would also echo that World Cup, we didn't think World Cup would be a big contributor to Park, and it essentially performed as expected. We think, again, that sets us up for 2027, not having some of those difficult comps that perhaps others may have.

[Operator]

We'll go next to Smedes Rose with Citi.

[Smedes Rose, Analyst at Citi]

Hi, thanks. I wanted to ask you first, Thomas, you mentioned group pace is up 6% for 2027. Could you just talk a little bit more about that? Is that bookings? Is that revenues? Where are you now, I guess, in terms [ percentage ]of rooms sort of on the books for next year, kind of relative to your expectations?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Yeah. Smedes, if you look at 2026, as Sean said, we're 5.5%-6% for the balance of 2026. We were up 9.5% in the second quarter. We're looking to be up 15%, is our pace in the third quarter, which is very strong. About 96% of our business is on the books plus or minus. I would say it's broad based as we look just Q3. Hilton Hawaiian Village is strong. Casa is strong. Hilton Caribe, Santa Barbara, Denver, New York, Chicago. Again, we continue to see broad base there. As we look in 2027 and just focus on the core, it's really over 6%. New York City is strong, double digit, Key West, Miami off the charts, obviously, as part of the reopening. Hawaii double digit, San Francisco double digit. Very encouraged as we sort of look out.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Even beyond that, as we look to early 2028 looks encouraging as well. We are very bullish and again, we've been intentional. We've been really sharpshooters on the capital allocation front, making sure that we're investing in our core portfolio where we can make money. Particularly, if we can take the big boxes and anchor them with significant group, allows us to better yield those assets and much better profitability. I think you're seeing results. The last few quarters are great examples of that. Second quarter, we remain very bullish on third quarter. As Sean mentioned, we're going to be cautious. I think certainly our guidance reflects that.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I would just add, too, in terms of the breakdown, I would say this year, group pace is more so on the occupancy side, but next year is more balanced between occ and rate.

[Smedes Rose, Analyst at Citi]

Great. Sean, could I just ask you, too, so you mentioned on the release, $11 million of positive real estate tax appeals. Are those kind of one time, or would you expect the property level EBITDA to be enhanced now with kind of a lower run rate tax basis going forward? Or maybe you could just sort of talk about the impact of those appeals.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Yeah, I would say, large part, maybe a couple of them were one time. Really the biggest driver of that was Chicago. I think those who follow Chicago enough, there's probably certainly a few of us in our peer set that have exposure to Chicago, where it's kind of an annual routine in a sense, where you kind of are appealing each year. Essentially, and ultimately getting a benefit somewhere in the Q2 to Q3 timeframe. If you recall, last year, we had about a $5 million benefit from an appeals win in Chicago. This year, it's about $6 million. A little bit better than that, embedded in that 11. The other ones were ultimately one time in a sense of nature. One of them, which was for an asset that we sold recently, Short Hills.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

In a sense, you look at our comp portfolio, which Short Hills is no longer in the net quarter year-over-year impact is not that dramatic. I would say, when you think about the basis point margin expense we have for the quarter, it was 80 overall, but excluding that, it was about still 40+ basis points better. As we look at, kind of, I'd say fixed cost in general, because that's certainly where we can kind of directly influence that a lot more. With the work being done in the number of not only in the tax side and working on the appeals, but also on the insurance side. As you look at first half, we were probably on average about a point and a half down year-over-year on fixed cost.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

With insurance helping us in the back half of the year, it's still probably about a half point below. We're still continuing to get a benefit in an offset to any other cost increases we're seeing elsewhere in the operations for the rest of 2026.

[Operator]

We'll hear next from Dan Politzer with JPMorgan.

[Dan Politzer, Analyst at JPMorgan]

Hey, good morning, everyone. Thanks for the question. I was hoping we could maybe parse out, there's a lot of moving pieces. Obviously, in 2026, but maybe to bridge to 2027. Maybe just the big kind of building blocks between Royal Palm, Hawaii, the non-core dispositions, and the property tax. If you can kind of run through that, I think it'd be helpful. Thanks.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Certainly a lot to discuss there. I would say, as you think about 2027, we'll just kind of maybe keep it pretty broad here, ultimately. We talked about group pace. I think that's a kind of a core foundation of visibility into next year. Certainly, we don't want to get too detailed, not we're thinking about guidance in any way shape or form here. Group pace being up 6% for the core portfolio, a good balance, in terms of resort and urban exposure to that. Thomas talked about some of the certain markets that look pretty good. We've got that as a foundation for the portfolio. Royal Palm ramp is certainly going to be a big story for us, and we're very happy how the product turned out and how it's certainly getting some early looks and positive feedback.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I would think as we think about its impact for next year, if you just take what it did in 2024, essentially before we put it under renovation last year. You add that to our performance and think about 2027, it's probably about 150-200 basis points of positive impact, a tailwind, just if you take, again, its performance in 2024. Clearly, we want to exceed that as we ramp up into next year. It won't be fully stabilized, but you can certainly see potential for doing better than that in terms of helping the portfolio out next year. In terms of Hawaii, group pace for next year is combined 12.5%. Waikoloa is up over 20%. We're seeing great lift and good momentum from Waikoloa coming off the Palace Tower renovation. We expect to see Q2 rate was up 11%, again, benefiting from that. HHV, of course.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We've got the Ali'i Tower being renovated, as we've mentioned. We'll come off of that in the later part of Q1 and certainly expect to see the benefits of that, like we're seeing with Rainbow. Certainly, it's lapping the back half of 2027, what ultimately would be rooms out of order for Ali'i Tower in the back half of 2027. Positive momentum I think, as we go Q2, the back half of the year on the Hawaii side. I think even beyond 2027, I think from a Hawaii standpoint a good Waikoloa story is the property recently took in some business from an incentive group for the year that basically represents 10% of the revenue expected to generate this year.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

A big program, big win for the team as we kind of think about the Hawaii recovery story over the next couple of years, certainly a good nugget there for Waikoloa.

[Dan Politzer, Analyst at JPMorgan]

Got it, Thanks. I know that's a mouthful. There's a lot there. I guess one more high-level question. You've made good progress on the non-core asset sales. As you kind of wind that down and there's fewer and fewer left and the contribution becomes smaller is there any thought as to just kind of collapsing the non-core into the core and just kind of having one kind of clean number on a go-forward?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

It's a fair question. It's one that we'll study. I think, candidly, will depend on sort of where we are at the end of the year. We remain committed to cleaning up the portfolio and reshaping it. I do think as you look at the core, there's about a 63% difference, obviously, in RevPAR from about $215± to $131. If you look at margins on core, it's about 30%, 31% versus about 16%. Pretty significant difference there. We're confident we're going to continue to make significant progress and get to the point where really the non-core is really immaterial as we sort of move forward.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Patrick Scholes with Truist Securities.

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Hi, good morning. Thank you.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Yes.

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Similar question I've been asking other companies on earnings calls, and that's. What percent of your hotels do you believe would qualify for Hilton's new RISE program or Marriott's equivalent program? Thank you.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

To be clear, this is a program that Hilton's rolled out to its franchise ownership community. As you think about our portfolio, as we talk about, our portfolio is certainly heavily Hilton and call it 85%-90% of our business is coming from Hilton. I'd say that's clearly the lion's share. We've got the rest kind of mixed evenly between Marriott and Hyatt. Certainly it's their RISE program that's kind of, for us, I'd say in general for RISE, the immediate benefits I think are certainly helpful, but I'd say kind of marginal. As noted and as we know, there are gating criteria that franchisees like us will have to meet, and I think like us, franchisees will have to evaluate feasibility and timing to achieve the potential of the benefits that they're giving. We expect it to evolve over time.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Clearly Hilton is looking at ways to address owner profitability, and we certainly appreciate their focus on that. We believe and expect that this is one of many ways to do that, and they're certainly working to identify the ways to improve the operating model and owner profitability.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Okay. Patrick, go ahead.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Patrick, if I could just add a couple of points. Listen, I think it's good that the owner community is fully engaged with the leading brands and looking at ways to candidly reshape the operating model and improve the economics. I think there's no secret, owners have had a tougher run the last five, six years, and the fact that we're engaged at the table, that we're looking at whether it's through AI initiatives, whether it's through the RISE program or Marriott's equivalent, all of that makes sense. At the end of the day, their business models don't work unless they have a very active, engaged, and successful owner community. We've got to figure out a way for margins to improve and for cash flows to grow.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I'm glad that the brands are committed, in my view to that discussion, and I know that business leaders, the men and women that run whether they're public or private companies, and are all looking at figuring out ways to reshape that operating model. It's a positive.

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Thank you.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I think it really goes beyond just the RISE program.

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Thank you. I recall from a lodging conference a year or two ago, I think the quote was, "Asset light doesn't work if asset heavy doesn't either.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Well-

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

I think that's another way of saying it

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

You said it better, but same outcome.

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Yes.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Same outcome. Thank you.

[Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Thank you.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

All right.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from David Katz with Jefferies.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Hey, David.

[David Katz, Analyst at Jefferies]

Hey, morning, everyone. Thanks for taking my question. Just a general unspecific answer I'm looking for. Clearly, your stock the others of your peers for the most part are up a lot the last 12 months. I always respect the notion that management teams feel like their stock should be higher, right? Even if they're up a lot. Do you contemplate the notion of using that upside that has come your way by We've only talked about non-core asset sales, but is there a way for you, generally speaking, to play offense with that improved stock price? Albeit still a little below, right? If you could make leverage lower or something like that.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

David, I appreciate the question. I think you and I have had this dialogue for many years and listen, nothing would make this team happier. We have obviously played defense. I think we've played it effectively. I think we've reshaped the portfolio. I think we've done it as well as anyone could given the facts and circumstances. We've intentionally been shrinking the company, getting it down to our core portfolio because that's where the real value is. The hope and expectation of obviously reinvesting in our core portfolio is that we believe we can generate outsized returns and higher returns on the development side than we can on the acquisition front. We still believe that.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I think the facts would support that, and the hope is that as the company continues to rerate, we can get the multiple up and get our cost of capital down, and we would be very interested in certainly looking for those unique opportunities. We're not alone in that, and it's certainly as you think about luxury and leisure in particular, it's very competitive out there. I think in the meantime, what we're doing in the blocking and tackling and the kind of results that we're generating in Orlando and Hawaii and Key West, I think really speak for themselves, and I think Santa Barbara. You'll continue to see us anchored and focused on reshaping and with the expectation that we'll be able to go on offense. Now, is that 2026, 2027? It's coming, and we look forward to those days.

[David Katz, Analyst at Jefferies]

If I may just follow up, nothing is ever absolute, but it sounds as though, the notion of just using whatever stock value just to reduce your leverage is not something that's high on the consideration list.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I wouldn't say that, David. I think as we've said on the non-core, our priority is taking those proceeds, reinvesting with our transformative ROI projects, and we've identified those that we think have the greatest potential, and Ali'i will be sort of next in the queue. Obviously taking excess proceeds and paying down debt. The other way to reduce debt and reduce net debt to EBITDA is continuing to grow EBITDA. As Sean pointed out in his prepared remarks, we've done that two-tenths of a turn, but the reality is to continue to execute. I would put our performance up against anybody else in what we've been doing across the board. We've been consistent in our messaging, and we've been executing and really focused on the things that we control.

[David Katz, Analyst at Jefferies]

Okay.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Chris Woronka with Deutsche Bank.

[Chris Woronka, Analyst at Deutsche Bank]

Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the question.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Morning, Chris.

[Chris Woronka, Analyst at Deutsche Bank]

Morning, Thomas. As I look at your first half performance, it strikes me that I think two markets are spot on half of your EBITDA, four hotels. That doesn't include Miami, so change things a little bit later, but you said, "Hey, not seeing a lot of acquisition opportunity right now. Reinvest in hotels." The question is diversification, do you think you need to do it or want to do it? That seems like the only near-term option would be to maybe sell a portion, like a joint venture of some of those more chunkier assets. Is there any thought to that, or how important is expanding the market's diversification? Thanks.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Sure. It's always in a perfect world, Chris, you'd certainly want more diversification. If we could just back up for a second. If you think about where we're getting outsized returns, and if you think about Hawaii, obviously the forecast for Miami, I think the facts will show that here in short order. If you look at Key West, if you look at Orlando, if you look at Santa Barbara, I mean, that's probably north of 60%, 65% of EBITDA, all growth markets. Sure, would we like Hawaii in a perfect world to be less than where it is today? It's fee simple real estate, huge moat, very difficult to replicate what we have near impossible from that standpoint. We like our positioning from that standpoint.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

As the stock re-rates and the cost of capital comes down, we certainly will look for other opportunities, but we like our positioning right now as we look out.

[Chris Woronka, Analyst at Deutsche Bank]

Okay. Understood. Thanks, Thomas. Just a quick follow-up.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Yep.

[Chris Woronka, Analyst at Deutsche Bank]

Is the W in South Beach going over to Hilton and Waldorf? Does that at all change your underwriting, I guess, for the better at Royal Palm, since you lose a Marriott competitor, basically?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Yeah, I think incrementally, it helps from that standpoint. I'm excited for Hilton in getting the Waldorf down there. I think that's great for the sub-market. We know Miami pretty well, and there's a lot of luxury product, and I think adding Waldorf to the mix will be great, and we can't wait to show the investor community Royal Palm and the transformation that's occurred there. It is to steal a phrase from an executive at Marriott stunning, and we are very proud of it, and well-positioned in the future there.

[Operator]

We'll go next to Robin Farley with UBS.

[Robin Farley, Analyst at UBS]

Great. Thank you.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

You're welcome

[Robin Farley, Analyst at UBS]

question here. You have pretty staged growth in the next 24 months with a lot of these renovations coming on, and I guess maybe what time frame should we expect for news about your next projects? Could that be as soon as this year, or not necessarily something that you would be announcing that soon?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We've tried Robin, to be very proactive, and I think as Sean mentioned, obviously, we've ramped up a little more on the CapEx the last few years, all intentional. We would probably get back to what we would call sort of a normal run rate. Ali'i makes sense. As I mentioned, I think Santa Barbara is another asset that we would certainly huddle with our partner, but we think there's the opportunity to really sort of take that up to the next level, and we think that certainly the returns would generate that. We're very thoughtful. We tend to study the situations very carefully, both the scope, the timing, the process, and minimizing the amount of disruption. There are some cases like Miami, where it was so complex in three buildings where we ended up having to close the hotel.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

If you think about Ali'i, obviously, we're going to close that hotel while we keep the full campus up and running and operating. The team is experienced, it's seasoned, and I think we've got a demonstrated track record that respectfully is really the best in the sector.

[Robin Farley, Analyst at UBS]

Okay. Thank you.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Moving next to Rich Hightower with Barclays.

[Rich Hightower, Analyst at Barclays]

Hey, guys. Good afternoon.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Hey, Rich.

[Rich Hightower, Analyst at Barclays]

Hey, Thomas. I guess maybe just to repackage some of the prior lines of questioning, but Thomas you did mention that the, I guess the private market bid for luxury and leisure is still fairly competitive,. Certainly relative to kind of what else exists in hotels. Maybe tell us what you're seeing in general terms there, and then as a second part of that is there any structural impediment to monetizing at some point even one of the core hotels, given the strength of that private market bid if that is indeed the case?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Yeah. Rich, we've always said that the team is not entrenched, and we're going to do what's in shareholders' best interest. We do get occasional call about Hawaii. It's complicated to do a joint venture. Not impossible, but complicated. Generally, the response has been, if you want to buy Hawaii, buy the company. I repeat the statement that management nor the board are entrenched here. We will continue to look. I think we're all curious to see the former strategic portfolio is being marketed. I think it'll be interesting to see the pricing and how that unfolds. We'll see what comes out of that. If that's a very healthy process and there's a lot of capital chasing, that's good for the sector. I think price discovery is a wonderful thing, and it may lead to other deals with other participants in our sector.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We're excited to continue to watch and observe and see how that unfolds. We're not directly participating at this time. Hopefully, you've known Rich, if you looked at our portfolio our performance, you've looked at our messaging, I think it speaks for itself in how the Park team is performing vis-a-vis what we've communicated.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Jack Armstrong with Wells Fargo.

[Jack Armstrong, Analyst at Wells Fargo]

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking our question. Can you talk through the operating expense expectations coming up 60 basis points relative to RevPAR of 225 for the full year? What were some of the expense controls that brought you to that result, and can you talk through some of the changes in those expense components versus your prior expectations?

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Hey, Jack, how are you? This is Sean. We certainly passed through what we saw in Q2 fundamentally on the expense side, which was the biggest driver, was really the occ gains that we saw. Occupancy was about two-thirds at least of the RevPAR growth and about 75% of the year-to-date growth. With a backdrop of about 2% growth on a cost per occupied room basis, we certainly saw a little bit of elevated expense there along with the elevated RevPAR. Given this though, we were pretty pleased with the flow-through as we look at comparisons to the prior forecast with flow-through for rooms greater than 70%, and F&B was really strong at 65.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

I think, year-to-date increase thus far for expenses is about the midpoint of our guide, and that certainly leads to the back half being around the same amount, kind of midpoint of that three to four. I would say, though in the back half, if you think about the back half, included in that is about 120 basis point contribution from Royal Palm as it ramps back up and it obviously brings on operating expenses above the carry that we had, just the basic carry we had last year. In the overall, I think we've been pleased. I think certainly it comes as you see some of these things come through. Always a focus on cost controls with the manager. They did a pretty good job, but in the end, you're going to have more occupancy, more heads and beds.

[Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

You're going to see certainly more labor come. We know that labor is certainly in that 4%-5% kind of growth range. Kind of managing through that, I think they did a pretty effective job with flow-through. We certainly expect them to continue to do that.

[Operator]

We'll go next to Michael Herring with Green Street Capital.

[Michael Herring, Analyst at Green Street]

Hi, thanks for taking my question. Just to follow up on Bonnet Creek, obviously mentioning that the RevPAR index shares have been pretty strong there. Are there any external factors such as competitive supply or other hotels in the market that were under renovation that might weigh on the near-term growth?

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

Not that we're aware of. We love our positioning at Bonnet Creek. Obviously it's a competitive marketplace for sure. I'd also make, if you think about destinations, people sometimes forget that Orlando is the most visited destination in the country. I think expected 77 million-79 million visitors this year alone. I think Vegas is around 45 million. I think New York is about 67 million, plus or minus. Love our positioning there with the three assets that we have, particularly Bonnet Creek and the $220 million that we've put in. As I mentioned earlier, what we've seen both in ramp-up, both in where EBITDA has gone, where we see market share. The irony is that market share, again, we're still not back to fair share given that competitive landscape.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We are very bullish that we think there's even additional upside there and are excited about the future for Bonnet Creek as we look to the future.

[Operator]

This now concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the floor back over to Thomas Baltimore for closing comments.

[Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO at Park Hotels & Resorts]

We appreciate everyone's time today. We look forward to seeing many of you in upcoming conferences, and we look forward to hosting you at Royal Palm in our investor tour in November. Safe travels.

[Operator]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation. This does conclude today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines, and have a wonderful day.

Participants

Executives

• Ian Weissman, SVP of Corporate Strategy
• Thomas Baltimore, Chairman and CEO
• Sean Dell'Orto, CFO and COO

Analysts

• Floris van Dijkum, Analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann
• Duane Pfennigwerth, Analyst at Evercore ISI
• Smedes Rose, Analyst at Citi
• Dan Politzer, Analyst at JPMorgan
• Patrick Scholes, Analyst at Truist Securities
• David Katz, Analyst at Jefferies
• Chris Woronka, Analyst at Deutsche Bank
• Robin Farley, Analyst at UBS
• Rich Hightower, Analyst at Barclays
• Jack Armstrong, Analyst at Wells Fargo
• Michael Herring, Analyst at Green Street