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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Original Translation
Expedia Group, Inc. (EXPE) Q4 2025 Earnings Call February 12, 2026 4:30 PM EST

Company Participants

Rob Bevegni - Vice President of Investor Relations
Ariane Gorin - CEO & Director
Scott Schenkel - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Mark Stephen Mahaney - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division
Eric Sheridan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Jed Kelly - Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division
Conor Cunningham - Melius Research LLC
Jacob Seed - TD Cowen, Research Division
Kenneth Gawrelski - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Deepak Mathivanan - Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Research Division
Naved Khan - B.
# ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„ ๊ทธ๋ฃน(Expedia Group, Inc.) (EXPE) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ
2026๋…„ 2์›” 12์ผ ์˜คํ›„ 4์‹œ 30๋ถ„ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

## ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž

Rob Bevegni - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
Ariane Gorin - ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž(CEO) ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
Scott Schenkel - ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CFO)

## ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

Mark Stephen Mahaney - ์—๋ฒ„์ฝ”์–ด ISI ์ธ์Šคํ‹ฐํŠœ์…”๋„ ์ดํ€ดํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Eric Sheridan - ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Jed Kelly - ์˜คํŽœํ•˜์ด๋จธ ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Conor Cunningham - ๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์šฐ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜
Jacob Seed - TD ์ฝ”์›ฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Kenneth Gawrelski - ์›ฐ์ŠคํŒŒ๊ณ  ์‹œํ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Deepak Mathivanan - ์บ”ํ„ฐ ํ”ผ์ธ ์ œ๋Ÿด๋“œ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Naved Khan - B.
Riley Securities, Inc., Research Division
Lee Horowitz - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Trevor Young - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the Expedia Group Q4 2025 Financial Results Webcast. [Operator Instructions]

For opening remarks, I will now hand the call over to Rob Bevegni, VP of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Rob Bevegni
Vice President of Investor Relations

Good afternoon, and welcome to Expedia Group's Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. I'm pleased to be joined on today's call by our CEO, Ariane Gorin; and our CFO, Scott Schenkel.
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Expedia Group 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์›น์บ์ŠคํŠธ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ]

๊ฐœํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด์ œ Investor Relations ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ Rob Bevegni์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹œ์ฃ .

Rob Bevegni
ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

์ข‹์€ ์˜คํ›„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Expedia Group์˜ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” CEO์ธ Ariane Gorin๊ณผ CFO์ธ Scott Schenkel์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As a reminder, our commentary today will include references to certain non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures are included in our earnings release. Unless otherwise stated, all growth rates are on a year-over-year basis and any references to expenses exclude stock-based compensation. We will also be making forward-looking statements during the call, which are predictions, projections and other statements about future events. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, which are subject to risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict.์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์„ค๋ช…์—๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋น„-GAAP ์ง€ํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋น„-GAAP ์ง€ํ‘œ์™€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ GAAP ์ง€ํ‘œ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์กฐ์ • ๋‚ด์—ญ์€ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณ„๋„๋กœ ๋ช…์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ•œ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์€ ์ฃผ์‹๊ธฐ์ค€๋ณด์ƒ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ†ตํ™” ์ค‘ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์ง„์ˆ ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก, ์ „๋ง ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ง„์ˆ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ๊ฐ€์ •์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Actual results could materially differ due to factors discussed during this call and in our most recent Forms 10-K, 10-Q and other filings with the SEC. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any responsibilities to update these forward-looking statements. This call is being webcast on the Investor Relations section of our website at ir.expediagroup.com. A replay will be archived on our site. A slide deck containing financial highlights has also been posted on our IR website. For today's call, Ariane will begin with a review of our fourth quarter results and an update on our progress against our strategic priorities.์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๋…ผ์˜๋œ ์š”์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ œ์ถœํ•œ Form 10-K, 10-Q ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ SEC ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜์— ๋ช…์‹œ๋œ ์š”์ธ๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์ด ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ir.expediagroup.com์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„(Investor Relations) ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ์›น์บ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ์ƒ๋ณธ์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋ณด๊ด€๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋œ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ ์ž๋ฃŒ ์—ญ์‹œ IR ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ๋Š” Ariane์ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๊ฒ€ํ† ์™€ ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Then Scott will provide additional details on our fourth quarter financial performance and guidance. After our prepared remarks, we will turn the call over to our operator to begin the Q&A portion of the call. And with that, let me turn the call over to Ariane. Ariane Gorin
CEO & Director

Thank you, Rob, and thank you all for joining us today. We accelerated both bookings and revenue growth and expanded margins by over 2 points. We returned Vrbo and Hotels.com to growth while sustaining the performance of Brand Expedia, B2B and advertising. Looking ahead, we're well positioned to build on our momentum as we execute our strategy and capitalize on the opportunities created by AI.
๊ทธ๋Ÿผ Scott์ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๋ถ€์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์ด ๋๋‚˜๋ฉด ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง„ํ–‰์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ Ariane์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Ariane Gorin
CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

Rob, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ง„์„ 2ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ด์ƒ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Brand Expedia, B2B, ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ Vrbo์™€ Hotels.com์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋กœ ๋ณต๊ท€์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  AI๊ฐ€ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In the fourth quarter, we exceeded our expectations, growing bookings and revenue by 11% and expanding our margins by 4 points. Booked room nights were up 9%, including high single digits in the U.S. and low double digits in EMEA and the rest of the world. Consumer spending remained healthy with longer booking windows and lengths of stay relative to 2024. Our B2B and advertising businesses had stellar quarters. We grew B2B bookings by 24% and advertising revenue by 19%. Our Consumer Brands bookings were up 5% overall and double digits outside the U.S. We grew loyalty members by mid-single digits with faster member growth in our Silver tiers and above.4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 11% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ์ง„์€ 4%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๊ฐ์‹ค ์ˆ˜๋Š” 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜, EMEA์™€ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ง€์ถœ์€ 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ธธ์–ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B์™€ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹  ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก์€ 24%, ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ์€ 19% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก์€ ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์™ธ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํšŒ์› ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ค๋ฒ„ ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ํšŒ์› ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And for the second consecutive quarter, all 3 core brands delivered year-over-year bookings growth, reflecting sharper brand positioning, product improvements and ever better execution. Turning to our 3 strategic priorities. I'll begin with our first, delivering more value to travelers. On product, our sites and apps are 30% faster than they were a year ago. We've upgraded our checkout path and added new payment options, giving travelers more flexibility and making booking even easier. We're using AI to deliver more personalized experiences across all our brands. On Brand Expedia, for example, our refined recommendation models drove our best fourth quarter attach rates ever.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ 3๊ฐœ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก(bookings) ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ด์ง„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹, ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ์„ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ์ธต ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋Œ€ ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ์ธ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ’ˆ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์™€ ์•ฑ์€ 1๋…„ ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค 30% ๋” ๋นจ๋ผ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฐ์ œ ์˜ต์…˜์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์„ ๋”์šฑ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„(Brand Expedia)์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€์ƒํ’ˆ ํŒ๋งค์œจ(attach rates)์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This is a strong signal as travelers who buy multiple products spend more and return more often. We also know how important it is to give travelers confidence throughout their journey, including when plans change. Our ability to meet this need is an important competitive advantage. Last quarter, we expanded VrboCare, strengthening Vrbo's differentiation and giving travelers peace of mind when booking their trips. Across our brands, we enhanced our help center and servicing capabilities so travelers can effortlessly modify their bookings or get support if things go wrong. This resulted in record traveler self-service levels.์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ง€์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ์ž์ฃผ ์žฌ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ ํ˜ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš์ด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋  ๋•Œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ „ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์šฐ์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” VrboCare๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ Vrbo์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•  ๋•Œ ์•ˆ์‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ํ—ฌํ”„์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์†์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ์‹œ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ ์…€ํ”„์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And for more complex issues that require a live agent, our advanced agent tools are contributing to materially reduced wait times even during peak call periods. All of that translates into more satisfied travelers. On supply, we continue to broaden our inventory to give travelers more choice and better value. In the fourth quarter, we grew our lodging property count by more than 10% compared to 2024. We're sourcing more promotional rates and partner-funded promotions were over 30% of bookings in Q4, up more than 10 points from the third quarter. Nearly 70% more properties participated in our Black Friday sale than ever before.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ƒ๋‹ด์›์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ณ ๋„ํ™”๋œ ์ƒ๋‹ด์› ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ํ”ผํฌ ํ†ตํ™” ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์—๋„ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹จ์ถ•์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋” ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์—ฌํ–‰์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์„ค ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ 10% ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ์ง€์› ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜์ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์˜ 30% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 10%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธ”๋ž™ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฐ์ด ์„ธ์ผ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 70% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
These trends demonstrate the strength of our flywheel as deeper partner participation increases traveler value and drives incremental demand back to our partners. Turning to our second priority, investing where we see the greatest opportunities for growth. B2B had another fantastic quarter with double-digit growth across all regions. We gained share with existing partners and benefited from increased marketing activity from some of our largest partners. We added new partners and had more active travel agents than any prior fourth quarter. We continue to invest in new lines of business, extending capabilities from our consumer business into B2B.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”์„ธ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๊ฐ€ ๊นŠ์–ด์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์—ฌํ–‰์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ”Œ๋ผ์ดํœ (์„ ์ˆœํ™˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ)์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ํ™˜์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํ™œ๋™ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—ญ๋Œ€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ํ™œ์„ฑ ์—ฌํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ B2B๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Last quarter, we launched a Cancel for Any Reason assurance product. And in December, we announced our intent to acquire Tiqets to broaden the activities we offer to our partners and their travelers. B2B is a great business, and we'll continue to invest to drive future growth. On advertising, we reaccelerated revenue growth and finished the year with a record number of active partners. We continue to expand placements of new ad formats. And after launching video ads in our search results in early 2025, last quarter, we introduced video ads on Expedia's homepage. We're a high-return channel for our partners.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Cancel for Any Reason ๋ณด์ฆ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  12์›”์—๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‚ฌ์™€ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์•กํ‹ฐ๋น„ํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด Tiqets ์ธ์ˆ˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์žฌ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๋‹ค ํ™œ์„ฑ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ด‘๊ณ  ํ˜•์‹์˜ ๊ฒŒ์žฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ์ดˆ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋น„๋””์˜ค ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•œ ๋ฐ ์ด์–ด, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” Expedia ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€์— ๋น„๋””์˜ค ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‚ฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ฑ„๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And as we inject AI into both our ads and our ad targeting tools, our ads are becoming more relevant and performant. Finally, as gen AI changes how travelers do trip discovery, it opens up new growth opportunities for us. We're working with all the major platforms to capture traveler demand, ensuring our brands show up prominently in gen AI searches and function effectively with agentic browsers. We're experimenting aggressively. And while volume is still small, every additional integration gives us data and learnings about how to better surface our brands and how consumer behaviors are evolving.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ด‘๊ณ ์™€ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ… ๋„๊ตฌ ๋ชจ๋‘์— AI๋ฅผ ์ ‘๋ชฉํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ  ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI๊ฐ€ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์˜ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฃผ์š” ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ์„ฑํ˜• AI ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋‘๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๊ณ  ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ €์™€ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„์ง ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ†ตํ•ฉ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ž˜ ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ํ–‰๋™์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ํ•™์Šต์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
These learnings, coupled with insights from our own brands are in turn informing the development of AI experiences in our own products. And that's important because while third-party AI experiences are a new way to attract travelers and turn them into loyal members, our biggest long-term opportunity remains direct engagement. Today, 2/3 of our bookings come from travelers who begin their planning journey directly with our brands, and those direct bookings are growing faster than bookings from indirect channels.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์ž์‚ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ป์€ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์™€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ์ž์‚ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ AI ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ, ์ œ3์ž AI ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ์„ ์œ ์น˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถฉ์„ฑ ํšŒ์›์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ง์ ‘ ์ฐธ์—ฌ(direct engagement)์— ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์˜ 2/3๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง์ ‘ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ(direct bookings)์€ ๊ฐ„์ ‘ ์ฑ„๋„์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We're confident that our work to make our products even more personalized and intuitive, along with our work on supply, customer service and loyalty will deepen our competitive advantage. Moving to the third pillar of our strategy, driving operating efficiencies and margin expansion. We expanded margins by nearly 4 points in the quarter, thanks to our continued operational discipline and volume leverage. I'm particularly pleased with the work we've done to get marketing leverage in our consumer brands. We've improved our targeting and measurement capabilities, reduced our least efficient spend and reallocated dollars to where we see the highest incremental returns.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์ง๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ž‘์—…๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต๊ธ‰, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ฐ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋žต์˜ ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ถ•์ธ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ œ๊ณ  ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์šด์˜ ๊ทœ์œจ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 4ํฌ์ธํŠธ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ… ๋ฐ ์ธก์ • ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ค„์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์ฆ๋ถ„ ์ˆ˜์ต์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We also continue to optimize our organizational structure for speed and effectiveness, ensuring we have the right skills and velocity to execute on our strategy. At the same time, we're deploying AI internally to give our teams superpowers and make our offerings to travelers and partners even more competitive. This is already delivering tangible benefits. Our product and tech teams are using AI to design and build products, improving quality while shortening cycle time. Our supply teams are leveraging AI to speed up inventory onboarding teams, and our service team is using AI to resolve traveler issues faster and more effectively.๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†๋„์™€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ AI๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํŒ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ดˆ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฌํ–‰์ž์™€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํŒ€์€ AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ’ˆ์งˆ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํŒ€์€ AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์˜จ๋ณด๋”ฉ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ํŒ€์€ AI๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we grow our business and increase our use of AI, we're keeping a close eye on costs, and we've been able to optimize our cloud spend through technology improvements and a more disciplined cloud operating model. In closing, I want to thank our teams for their hard work and our partners for their continued trust in us. We enter 2026, our 30th year as a company, well positioned to extend our momentum. Looking ahead, we're confident in our strategy and our ability to execute to drive long-term value for all stakeholders. With that, I'll turn it over to Scott. Scott Schenkel
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Ariane, and good afternoon, everyone.
AI ํ™œ์šฉ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŒ€์›๋“ค์˜ ๋…ธ๊ณ ์™€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ 30์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋Š” 2026๋…„์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ ๊ณผ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹คํ–‰ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์Šค์ฝง์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šค์ฝง ์‰ฅ์ผˆ
์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž

์•„๋ฆฌ์•ˆ, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
I'm pleased to share our fourth quarter 2025 performance, which exceeded the high end of our guidance range with bookings and revenue up 11% and EBITDA margin expansion of nearly 4 points. As Ariane mentioned, our outperformance was driven by sustained market strength through year-end and disciplined execution across the company. We grew share in the U.S. for both hotel and Vrbo and held lodging share globally. We also saw continued strength from B2B, which was a meaningful driver to our overall performance in the quarter. Our booked room nights were up 9%, driven by continued strength in the U.S.2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒ๋‹จ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 11% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ  EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 4%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Ariane์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์€ ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€์†๋œ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฐ•์„ธ์™€ ์ „์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ˜ธํ…”๊ณผ Vrbo ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์‹œ์žฅ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์ ์œ ์œจ๋„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ B2B ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „์ฒด ์‹ค์ ์— ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๊ฐ์‹ค ์ˆ˜๋Š” 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐ•์„ธ์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
and sequential acceleration in EMEA, where B2C once again saw its fastest growth in nearly 3 years. Growth in rest of world slowed as geopolitical issues in Asia weighed on growth in multiple quarters. Gross bookings and revenue grew 11% to $27 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively. The impact from foreign exchange was roughly in line with expectations, adding slightly over 1 point to bookings growth and about 2 points to revenue. Moving to our segment performance. B2C gross bookings of $18.3 billion grew 5%, driven by sustained momentum both domestically and internationally. B2C revenue of $2.2 billion grew 4%.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  EMEA์—์„œ๋Š” ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, B2C๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 3๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์•„์‹œ์•„์˜ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์ด์Šˆ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 11% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ 270์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ 35์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธํ™˜์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์ผ์น˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์— ์•ฝ 1%ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ์—๋Š” ์•ฝ 2%ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2C ์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก์€ 183์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 5% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2C ๋งค์ถœ์€ 22์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 4% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Consistent with last quarter, bookings growth exceeded revenue growth primarily due to book-to-stay timing as the majority of our revenues are recorded at the time of stay. B2C EBITDA margins were 31.5%, up approximately 6 points from last year, driven by significant marketing leverage. Margins were further supported by disciplined overhead management as well as continued growth in our high-margin advertising revenues. B2B gross bookings grew 24% to $8.7 billion, with continued double-digit growth across all regions. Rapid API was again the largest contributor to growth and benefited from increased marketing activities with some of our largest partners.์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ, ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ-์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์ฐจ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ ๋งค์ถœ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์ ์— ์ธ์‹๋˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2C EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์€ 31.5%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 6%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B ์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก์€ 24% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 87์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Rapid API๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ ์š”์ธ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํ™œ๋™ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
B2B revenue grew 24% to $1.3 billion, while EBITDA -- B2B EBITDA margins were 24%, down approximately 1 point. As we have stated previously, we will continue to prioritize investments to support future growth, which may modestly weigh on near-term margins. Moving to our cost structure, where we again leverage meaningfully across all our categories. Cost of revenue was $342 million, up 3%, but leveraging 1 point as a percentage of revenue, driven by continued efficiencies in payments and customer service. Total direct sales and marketing expenses were $1.7 billion, up 10%.B2B ๋งค์ถœ์€ 24% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ 13์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, B2B EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์€ 24%๋กœ ์•ฝ 1%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ํ–ฅํ›„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์šฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€๋Š” 3์–ต 4,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋น„์œจ์€ 1%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์€ 17์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We saw significant leverage in our B2C business with direct sales and marketing down 5%, leveraging 0.5 point as a percentage of B2C gross bookings. This was offset by growth in B2B expense, which reflects partner commissions and is recognized at the time of stay. Overhead expenses were $640 million, roughly flat versus last year while leveraging over 2 points on revenue. As a reminder, last year, we implemented a series of cost reductions, which had a meaningful impact on the margin in the back half of the year and expect those actions to favorably impact the first half of '26.B2C ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์ด 5% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์—ฌ B2C ์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„ 0.5%ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” B2B ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์ ์— ์ธ์‹๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„๋Š” 6์–ต 4์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์ด ์—†์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ž‘๋…„์— ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹œํ–‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„์— ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ด '26๋…„ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Additionally, we've already taken action in January with our product and technology organizations to simplify and become more efficient. While we'll be using much of the savings to strategically rehire in key areas like AI and machine learning, these type of actions will favor margins as well. Turning to profitability. We delivered fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA of $848 million with a margin of 24%. The nearly 4 points of adjusted EBITDA margin expansion was driven by revenue growth, expense leverage and cost out, particularly within B2C direct sales and marketing. Adjusted EPS of $3.78 grew 58%, outpacing EBITDA growth due to share repurchases and a lower tax rate.์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ 1์›”์— ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์กฐ์ง์—์„œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ˆ๊ฐ๋œ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ AI์™€ ๋จธ์‹ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ ๋งˆ์ง„์—๋„ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 8์–ต 4,800๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ 24%๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ 4%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ํ™•๋Œ€๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๋น„์šฉ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŠนํžˆ B2C ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ 3.78๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 58% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…๊ณผ ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง„ ์„ธ์œจ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Moving to our cash position. We ended the quarter with $5.7 billion of unrestricted cash and short-term investments, and we remain committed to maintaining debt levels consistent with our investment-grade rating. Free cash flow for the year was $3.1 billion and reflects the strength of our operating model and disciplined execution of our strategic priorities. In Q4, we utilized $255 million to repurchase 1.1 million shares of our common stock. And since 2022, we have repurchased over 45 million shares, reducing our share count by 22% net of dilution. We remain committed to returning capital to shareholders.ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ 57์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋น„์ œํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํˆฌ์ž๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ ์‹ ์šฉ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ 31์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์˜ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•จ๊ณผ ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์˜ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹คํ–‰์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” 2์–ต 5,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณดํ†ต์ฃผ 110๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2022๋…„ ์ดํ›„ 4,500๋งŒ ์ฃผ ์ด์ƒ์„ ๋งค์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ, ํฌ์„ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•œ ์ˆœ ๋ฐœํ–‰์ฃผ์‹์ˆ˜๋ฅผ 22% ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ฃผํ™˜์›์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We intend to continue opportunistic share repurchases at a pace similar to recent years and today are raising our quarterly dividend by 20% to $0.48 a share. Turning to our outlook. Our guidance reflects strong bookings momentum as we enter Q1 while remaining appropriately cautious given ongoing macro uncertainty. For the first quarter, we expect gross bookings growth to be between 10% to 12% with revenue of 11% to 13%. At current exchange rates, this assumes foreign exchange tailwinds of approximately 3 points to bookings and 4 points to revenue and implies stability in growth at the upper end of the range. For EBITDA, we expect EBITDA margins to be up 3 to 4 points.์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์†๋„๋กœ ๊ธฐํšŒ์  ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ์ง€์†ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ฉฐ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๊ธˆ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น 0.48๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ 20% ์ธ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ง์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ง„์ž… ์‹œ์ ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•˜์—ฌ ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด 10%์—์„œ 12% ์‚ฌ์ด, ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด 11%์—์„œ 13% ์‚ฌ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ํ™˜์œจ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก์— ์•ฝ 3%ํฌ์ธํŠธ, ๋งค์ถœ์— ์•ฝ 4%ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ์™ธํ™˜ ์ˆœํ’ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒ๋‹จ์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. EBITDA์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์ด 3~4%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ƒ์Šนํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As a reminder, the first quarter is our lowest EBITDA quarter, so the benefits of our prior cost actions will have an outsized impact in Q1 relative to other quarters. For the full year, we expect gross bookings growth to be between 6% and 8% and revenue of 6% to 9%, including 1 and 2 points of FX tailwind, respectively. Similar to our Q1 guidance, the upper end of our range implies stability in growth on an FX-neutral basis, while the lower end of the range reflects a more cautious view given the dynamic macro environment. We experienced variability in bookings during 2025, and our '26 outlook assumes a more seasonal cadence similar to what we saw in 2024.์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ EBITDA๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ด์ „ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ์กฐ์น˜์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋”์šฑ ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ง์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก(gross bookings) ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด 6%์—์„œ 8% ์‚ฌ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋งค์ถœ์€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 1ํฌ์ธํŠธ์™€ 2ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ํ™˜์œจ ์ˆœํ’ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ 6%์—์„œ 9% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์™€ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์ƒ๋‹จ์€ ํ™˜์œจ ์ค‘๋ฆฝ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ž„์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ํ•˜๋‹จ์€ ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์•ก์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„ ์ „๋ง์€ 2024๋…„์— ๋ณด์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ ์ธ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Regarding EBITDA margins, as we noted last quarter, we expect a more moderate pace of expansion in 2025 as we lap the benefits from our 2025 headcount reductions and marketing optimization. With this in mind, we do expect full year margins to expand by 100 to 125 basis points as we maintain cost discipline while selectively reinvesting in growth initiatives. In closing, I'm proud of the progress the team delivered in 2025, driving faster site performance, a leaner cost structure and more efficient marketing, all of which strengthen our confidence in the outlook shared today.EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด 2025๋…„ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ถ• ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ตœ์ ํ™”์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 2025๋…„์—๋Š” ๋ณด๋‹ค ์™„๋งŒํ•œ ์†๋„์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ, ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ์„ ๋ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ทœ์œจ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งˆ์ง„์ด 100~125bp ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, 2025๋…„ ํŒ€์ด ์ด๋ฃฌ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋А๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ, ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ์‹คํ˜„ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ณต์œ ํ•œ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With clear momentum across our strategic priorities, we are well positioned for long-term profitable growth and remain confident in our ability to execute and create shareholder value in 2026 and beyond. With that, we will now open the call for questions.์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„ ์ดํ›„์—๋„ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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# Expedia Group Q4 2025 ์‹ค์  ์š”์•ฝ

## ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ
- **4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ**: ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๋ฐ ๋งค์ถœ 11% ์„ฑ์žฅ, EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„ ์•ฝ 4%p ํ™•๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒ๋‹จ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ. ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๊ฐ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ€(๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ, EMEA ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ง€์—ญ ๋‘์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ)
- **๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ**: B2C ์˜ˆ์•ฝ 5% ์„ฑ์žฅ, B2B ์˜ˆ์•ฝ 24% ๊ธ‰์ฆ, ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ 19% ์ฆ๊ฐ€. 3๊ฐœ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ
- **์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ **: ์กฐ์ • EPS $3.78(58% ์ฆ๊ฐ€), ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ $31์–ต. B2C ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํšจ์œจํ™”๋กœ ๋งˆ์ง„ 6%p ํ™•๋Œ€

## 2026๋…„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค
- **1๋ถ„๊ธฐ**: ์˜ˆ์•ฝ 10~12%, ๋งค์ถœ 11~13% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง(ํ™˜์œจ ํšจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 3%p, 4%p). EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„ 3~4%p ํ™•๋Œ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- **์—ฐ๊ฐ„**: ์˜ˆ์•ฝ 6~8%, ๋งค์ถœ 6~9% ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชฉํ‘œ(ํ™˜์œจ ํšจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ 1%p, 2%p). EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„ 100~125bp ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ „๋งํ•˜๋‚˜ 2025๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์†๋„๋Š” ๋‘”ํ™” ์˜ˆ์ƒ

## ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต
- **๊ธ์ •์  ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€**: ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ AI ํˆฌ์ž, ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฐœ์„ 


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Mark Mahaney with Evercore ISI.**Operator:** 5000

[์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์—๋ฒ„์ฝ”์–ด ISI์˜ ๋งˆํฌ ๋งˆํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Stephen Mahaney: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division I wanted to ask two questions, please. One, Ariane, could you just talk about the product or the features that you would want to try to roll out or are rolling out in order to really enhance the travel planning process on Expedia. It's always known as a booking site. But what can you do to kind of capture more people up the funnel and just kind of keep them there? And then secondly, Scott, a lot of leverage being shown in B2C marketing. Just talk about how much more leverage there is there going forward? Or are there other sources of leverage that are just as big as what you've been able to get out of that so far?**Mark Stephen Mahaney:** ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค ๊ฐ•ํ™”์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์ด์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ Expedia์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ฐ ์—ฌ์ •์˜ ์ƒ๋‹จ๋ถ€(upper funnel)๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ , ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋œ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋กœ๋งŒ ์ธ์‹๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ, ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ฉฐ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ „ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ธ B2C ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ด๋ค„๋ƒˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ฑ„๋„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„ ๊ณ ๋„ํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ… ์ •๊ตํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์™ธ์—๋„ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ , ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ํ†ตํ•ฉ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž๋™ํ™” ํ™•๋Œ€ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์—ฌ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Mark, I would start my answer saying it isn't just what we're doing in the product. It starts with marketing. And we're doing a lot of work to make sure we know travelers, we're targeting them. We're personalizing our marketing to them. So that when they're doing discovery, whether it's in social channels or anywhere else, and when they're seeing our brands, they see messages that resonate with them. And then when they land on our brands, we're giving them relevant context so that they then convert. So again, it starts with the marketing, knowing our travelers, having messages that resonate with them, so we are top of mind. Then in the product, obviously, we do a very good job when people land in converting them. But there are things that we can do, whether it's agents that can help look at if you have a certain budget, then how do we give you ideas. If you want to search by destination, if you want to search by themes, I think there's a lot of exciting things that can come both in the existing flows, but also in natural language flows. Right now, we've got an agent, sort of the AI agent in Hotels.com. What works the best is actually the point solutions like AI filters or property Q&A. And what the team is working on, and we'll have more to share later this year is how we can use natural language and sort of AI to allow people to go from the trip planning all the way into the booking. But again, I just reemphasize, it's not just when they land with us. It's also how are our brands known and what's the work we're doing in marketing.**CEO & Director:** ์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ , ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์†Œ์…œ ์ฑ„๋„์ด๋“  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณณ์—์„œ๋“  ํƒ์ƒ‰์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ „ํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ์„ ํƒ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ „ํ™˜์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ํŠน์ • ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋‚˜, ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€๋ณ„ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰, ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋ณ„ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์ฃ . ๊ธฐ์กด ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ์™€ ์ž์—ฐ์–ด ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ Hotels.com์— AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ž˜ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ AI ํ•„ํ„ฐ๋‚˜ ์ˆ™์†Œ Q&A ๊ฐ™์€ ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŒ€์ด ์ž‘์—… ์ค‘์ธ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ›„๋ฐ˜์— ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž์—ฐ์–ด์™€ AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: Mark, to your question on the marketing, maybe a few thoughts and then some context. We've leveraged about 50 basis points as a percentage of GBV in B2C. And we've done that through strong marketing discipline, by improving efficiency by holding the teams accountable and having a strong point of view about return levels, incrementality, detailed analytical insights and then reallocation. And I think we've done some really nice work to cut costs sharply accurately and then I think redeploy where we see upside between channels. And the improved targeting and measurement capabilities, I think, have allowed us to be more dynamic in terms of how we manage our direct B2C sales and marketing. And I think the reduced spend on lower-performing channels and reallocating has really helped kind of cut costs, take some leverage and then also reinvest for growth in other channels. So it feels very good. And as we look forward to the rest of towards '26, I think you can expect more of the same.**Chief Financial Officer:** ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2C์—์„œ GBV ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 50bp์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๊ทœ์œจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ค„๋ƒˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ํŒ€์— ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ  ์ˆ˜์ค€, ์ฆ๋ถ„์„ฑ, ์„ธ๋ถ€์ ์ธ ๋ถ„์„ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํญ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฑ„๋„ ๊ฐ„ ์ƒ์Šน ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ…๊ณผ ์ธก์ • ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๋•๋ถ„์— B2C ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ์—ญ๋™์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ฑ„๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ํ™•๋ณด์— ์ •๋ง ๋„์›€์ด ๋๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฑ„๋„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฌํˆฌ์ž๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 26๋…„์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์…”๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: And just to add to that, I would say at the highest level, we're taking a more disciplined and data-driven approach to our marketing, and it's even more grounded in customer insights. Scott and I challenged the team to improve the returns, and they've done a great job. We've significantly stepped up the measurement capabilities we have, our testing velocity and our understanding of incrementality, and that sits behind a lot of what Scott described. Also, the work that we've done to sharpen our brand value propositions with stronger creative makes our spend more effective. So last year was a big year for relaunching Hotels.com with the Bellboy, and we were able to move awareness and consideration numbers. For Brand Expedia, just last week with the Super Bowl, we launched the new campaign, which is, the one place you go to go places. It was actually the most watched ad on YouTube with over 200 million viewers. So that -- as the creative is good, that also helps our efficiency. And finally, the product and tech improvements that I talked about in my prepared remarks, the fact that our sites are faster, that they're converting better, that also makes our marketing dollars go further because when we bring traffic into our brands, they're converting better.**CEO & Director:** ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์ฐจ์›์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋”์šฑ ํ™•๊ณ ํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์ฝง๊ณผ ์ €๋Š” ํŒ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ  ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํŒ€์€ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธก์ • ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰, ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์†๋„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฆ๋ถ„ ํšจ๊ณผ(incrementality)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋„๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œ์ผฐ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์Šค์ฝง์ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋กœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•œ ์ž‘์—… ๋•๋ถ„์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง€์ถœ์ด ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์€ ๋ฒจ๋ณด์ด(Bellboy)์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ Hotels.com์„ ์žฌ์ถœ์‹œํ•œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ธ์ง€๋„์™€ ๊ณ ๋ ค๋„ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ์Šˆํผ๋ณผ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ๋ก ์นญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋‹จ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณณ(the one place you go to go places)"์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€์˜€์ฃ . ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์‹œ์ฒญ๋œ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ  2์–ต ๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์ด ์‹œ์ฒญํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌ๋ฆฌ์—์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉด ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋†’์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์ „ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ์„  ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค, ์ฆ‰ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ  ์ „ํ™˜์œจ(conversion)์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ ๋„ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์„ ์œ ์ž…์‹œ์ผฐ์„ ๋•Œ ์ „ํ™˜์œจ์ด ๋” ์ข‹์•„์ง€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from Eric Sheridan with Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ ์—๋ฆญ ์…ฐ๋ฆฌ๋˜ ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Eric Sheridan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Part of the answer to Mark's question, how would you characterize the current competitive positioning of your consumer-facing brands? And how much of them have been realigned for where you want them to be in the marketplace today? Or to the degree some level of work still needs to be done to sort of have them operating on a more normalized level from a growth standpoint as we go deeper into 2026?**Eric Sheridan:** ํ˜„์žฌ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋Œ€๋ฉด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์  ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์›ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์œ„์น˜์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์žฌ์ •๋ ฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๋˜๋Š” 2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ •์ƒํ™”๋œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์˜ ์ž‘์—…์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ์ง€์š”?
CEO & Director: Yes. I feel very good about where we are in the positioning of each of the 3 brands. And that's been a lot of work over the last 12 to 18 months. So positioning Expedia as the one-stop shop where you go to find everything, positioning Hotels.com as the hotel pure play with a great loyalty value proposition. And Save Your Way, which we launched at the end of last year was a key part of that. For Vrbo, positioning it as the trusted pure-play vacation rental marketplace. Last year, when we finally launched our promotion suite, that allowed us to basically expand our supply. In November, when we expanded VrboCare, it gave travelers more trust. So I would say sort of the positioning, I feel good about. We've done a lot of work that are just the basics of the marketplace around supply, around faster speed, all of those things are great. And now there's really just a lot of growth potential. There's growth as our marketing becomes more effective. There's international growth. As I shared in my prepared remarks, room nights were growing faster outside of the U.S. than in the U.S. So there's always work to be done. But I feel like especially relative to a year ago, we're in a good place for those brands and a healthy place to be able to grow.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์ €๋Š” 3๊ฐœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 12๊ฐœ์›”์—์„œ 18๊ฐœ์›” ๋™์•ˆ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Expedia๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์›์Šคํ†ฑ ์‡ผํ•‘ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ, Hotels.com์€ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ํ˜ธํ…” ์ „๋ฌธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„ ๋ง์— ์ถœ์‹œํ•œ Save Your Way๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ์˜€์ฃ . Vrbo๋Š” ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํœด๊ฐ€์šฉ ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์ „๋ฌธ ๋งˆ์ผ“ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋งค๊น€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ž‘๋…„์— ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์„ ์ตœ์ข… ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 11์›”์— VrboCare๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰, ๋ฐฐ์†ก ์†๋„ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋“ฑ ๋งŽ์€ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์™”๊ณ , ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์ด ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๊ฐ์‹ค ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜(room nights)๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•ด์™ธ์—์„œ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํŠนํžˆ 1๋…„ ์ „๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question is from Jed Kelly with Oppenheimer & Co.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Oppenheimer & Co.์˜ Jed Kelly๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jed Kelly: Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division I guess, Ariane, I mean, since you've been here or taken over, you've really done a nice job making the business a pretty consistent on EBITDA compounder and you consistent -- to generate consistent margin growth. And I don't want to get -- take you too far out, but can you just give us a vision on where you potentially see that like the margin trajectory of this business could go over the medium term?**Jed Kelly:** ์•„๋ฆฌ์•ˆ, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์˜ค์‹  ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์ •๋ง ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ์…จ๊ณ , ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด๋‚ด์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋จผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹Œ๋ฐ, ์ค‘๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„์ด ์–ด๋А ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๋น„์ „์„ ์ข€ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
CEO & Director: Thank you, Jed. Look, all I -- what I will tell you is there is more to come. And obviously, you can see in our full year guide that we see more margin expansion. And it's not only us executing more effectively, it's our marketing executing more effectively. It's us being able to deliver more from the teams that we have. And of course, the beauty of this business is as we grow, as we get more scale, I think the margins will come. So I would just say my confidence in the growth comes from the fact that we've got a lot of potential on B2C, like I just talked about. B2B, there's always more opportunity to get more partners. We're making investments in new lines of business, which, again, gives us -- it positions us even better to be the one-stop shop for our partners. There's more supply. We grew the number of lodging properties in the fourth quarter by 10% -- and there's still a lot to go. There are some geographies where we don't have the coverage that we would like. We can get more promotions. Obviously, last year, we added Southwest, we added Ryanair. So that gives me a lot of confidence in growth. And then the ads business, we -- I see a lot of potential, especially in using AI to make those ads even more effective. So again, I see growth on the horizon. I'm excited about the opportunities and AI just gives me even more confidence.**CEO & Director:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Jed. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์•„์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์ด ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ํŒ€์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์˜ ์žฅ์ ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์ปค์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋งˆ์ง„๋„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜จ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œ ํ™•์‹ ์€ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ B2C์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ผ์ธ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์›์Šคํ†ฑ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋„ ๋” ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์„ค ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ 10% ๋Š˜๋ ธ๊ณ , ์•„์ง ๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ปค๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜๋„ ๋” ๋Š˜๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค์›จ์ŠคํŠธํ•ญ๊ณต๊ณผ ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์—์–ด๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ ๋“ค์ด ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํŠนํžˆ AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์ด ํฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI๋Š” ์ œ๊ฒŒ ๋”์šฑ ํฐ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: Yes. I think just a couple of quick points. I think the dynamic that we're looking at is a really strong quarter for outlook for Q1 as well. So an extra 3 to 4 points on margin rate expansion for Q1. But for the rest of the year, as I pointed out in my prepared remarks, it'll be somewhat muted in the context of versus a 3% to 4% number. Just as we've taken a number of actions, and I'm going to come back to that, but a number of actions last year, not only on headcount, but also on marketing costs, on cloud costs. And those have kind of had a compounding effect over the course of the year and are hitting Q1 strongly. But I think the way Ariane operates is she challenges everyone on the team to get more for less. And so there's a constant drumbeat in the business of how do we think about operating smarter, how do we do it with less money and how do we do it in a way that then favors growth as we think about reinvesting some of those funds as well as dropping some of that through to the bottom line. And so as we look out over the course of '26 for certain, and I don't anticipate that culture to change as well.**Chief Financial Officer:** ๋„ค, ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์ด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ์ด 3~4%ํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ 3~4%๋ผ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์™„๋งŒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์„ ์ทจํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ธ๋ ฅ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ, ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๋น„์šฉ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ด ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์„œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ Ariane์ด ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ํŒ€ ์ „์ฒด์— ๋” ์ ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋…๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์ ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ์ž๊ธˆ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ์ˆœ์ด์ต(bottom line)์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 26๋…„์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Yes. And just to add, I talk a lot about being brilliant at the basics and also about making every dollar count. And it's important that we all look, whether it's in our cloud spend, whether it's in our marketing spend, whether it's just where we're allocating our time, are we doing it where we can have the highest returns and make the most impact.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ์ €๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์— ์ถฉ์‹คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž์ฃผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์ง€์ถœ์ด๋“ , ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์ด๋“ , ๋˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์–ด๋””์— ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ž„ํŒฉํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from Conor Cunningham with Melius Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฉœ๋ฆฌ์šฐ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์˜ ์ฝ”๋„ˆ ์ปค๋‹ํ–„๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Melius Research LLC: Just a helpful comment on the 10% supply growth that you gave for the fourth quarter. Curious on how that's actually trended into 1Q. I mean, obviously, there's a lot of debate around hotels going more direct with large language models and so on. And then maybe if you could just parse out branded hotel growth versus ones that aren't. I think that would be a helpful data point.**Melius Research LLC:** 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  10% ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ(large language models) ๋“ฑ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ํ˜ธํ…”๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํ˜ธํ…”์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ๊ณผ ๋น„๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํ˜ธํ…”์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Sorry, can you repeat -- I missed the first part of the question. You said 10% hotel growth, and I missed the end of it. Can you repeat, please?**CEO & Director:** ์ฃ„์†กํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋†“์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธํ…” ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  10%๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋’ท๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋ชป ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
Melius Research LLC: Just -- yes, sorry. So just on -- you talked about 10% supply growth. I'm curious on how that's progressed into 2026. Obviously, there's this debate around hotels going more direct with large language models and so on. So just curious on that versus -- and if you could parse it out a little bit between branded hotels versus ones that aren't, that would be helpful.**Melius Research LLC:** ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  10%์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, 2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ(large language models) ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ˜ธํ…”๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๊ณ ์š”. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํ˜ธํ…”๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์€ ํ˜ธํ…”๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์„œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Okay. Thank you. Look, we continue to add more properties. We've added airlines last year. There is -- even if we have a very good assortment, especially as we're growing internationally, there will be opportunity to do more. And in fact, some of the work we did on AI has sped up the time it takes to onboard properties. It's 70% faster than it was before. So I expect we will continue adding supply. We will continue adding rate plans. And as for the talk about large language models and what that can do, what we're seeing is our business continues to grow. We're doing work, obviously, with the large language models and with -- whether it's ChatGPT or Google and the like to make sure our brands are showing up well there. We're doing work in answer engine optimization in native integrations, work with agentic browsers. And all of the work that we do there benefits our suppliers because we're doing the complicated work to help them drive demand to them through our business. Obviously, in the same way that they could always get business directly through Google and the like, that will continue to be the case. But as long as we do the job of making sure that our brands have very strong value propositions that travelers know them, they trust the value they're going to get coming to us. The same thing in our B2B business that we're adding value to the B2B partners, I think the pie will expand.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ ์š”. ํŠนํžˆ ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋” ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ AI ๊ด€๋ จ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค ์˜จ๋ณด๋”ฉ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค 70% ๋‹จ์ถ•๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ๊ณ„์† ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์š”๊ธˆ ํ”Œ๋žœ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ(large language model)๊ณผ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ €ํฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ž‘์—…๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ChatGPT๋“  Google์ด๋“  ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์ €ํฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ์—”์ง„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”(answer engine optimization)์™€ ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ํ†ตํ•ฉ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ €(agentic browsers) ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง์ ‘ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ €ํฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  B2B ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์—์„œ๋„ B2B ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ, ์‹œ์žฅ ํŒŒ์ด๋Š” ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question is from Kevin Kopelman with TD Cowen.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ TD Cowen์˜ Kevin Kopelman๋‹˜์ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jacob Seed: TD Cowen, Research Division This is Jacob on for Kevin. I have two questions. Is Expedia seeing any changes on traffic from Google as they continue to roll out more advanced AI features within travel? And then on B2B direct sales and marketing costs, up 27% year-over-year. Can you talk about key drivers and how you see that playing out this year?**Jacob Seed:** ์ผ€๋นˆ ๋Œ€์‹  ์ œ์ด์ฝฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์—ฌํ–‰ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๊ณ ๋„ํ™”๋œ AI ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์œ ์ž…๋˜๋Š” ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์— ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  B2B ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 27% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ฃผ์š” ๋™์ธ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
CEO & Director: Sure. I'll take the first one and then hand it to Scott. Look, we're not seeing material changes right now. We are experimenting aggressively. We're working closely with Google and others as they're adapting their interfaces. We're making sure that our brands show up well, as I said, through many ways, whether it's answer engine optimization, native integrations, agentic browsers. I actually think that AI search opens up even more possibilities to reach more travelers. And as there's more context in those searches, there's an opportunity for us to better target and then as we bring those travelers into our ecosystem to better convert. So I think it's an exciting time right now. Again, it's a fast-moving time. We're clear-eyed about where we all are. But our strategy is to be in early to partner deeply to get learnings from these early integrations and to find opportunities because one thing we've always been good at is figuring out how to surface our brands and third-party experiences and then convert travelers that come to us, and we will continue doing that.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Šค์ฝง์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ์—”์ง„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”(answer engine optimization), ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ํ†ตํ•ฉ, ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ € ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ €ํฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๋„๋ก ๋งŒ์ „์„ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์‹ค AI ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์ด ๋‹ด๊ธฐ๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ํƒ€๊ฒŸํŒ… ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์„ ์ €ํฌ ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„๋กœ ์œ ์ž…์‹œ์ผœ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ „ํ™˜์œจ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง€๊ธˆ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํ†ตํ•ฉ์—์„œ ํ•™์Šต์„ ์–ป์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ž˜ํ•ด์˜จ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ์ œ3์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ์†์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ์ „ํ™˜์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: And for B2B marketing, it really is more aligned with the revenue number, so 24% versus anything else because the dynamic is we booked that with the time of stay. And it's more a commission model than it is a rev share model than it is a marketing spend. So it's pretty straightforward.**Chief Financial Officer:** B2B ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ ์ˆ˜์น˜์™€ ๋” ๋ฐ€์ ‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋™๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€ํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ 24%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ํˆฌ์ˆ™ ์‹œ์ ์— ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ธŒ์‰์–ด(rev share) ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ง€์ถœ์ด๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ปค๋ฏธ์…˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์— ๊ฐ€๊น์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from Ken Gawrelski with Wells Fargo.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Wells Fargo์˜ Ken Gawrelski๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kenneth Gawrelski: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division I want to stick on the B2B side. Could you talk about any kind of concentration or any specific drivers that has driven -- that continues to drive the robust growth you see there? And as you look throughout '26, any factors we should be thinking about on the top line? And then maybe staying on B2B, you touched upon the margins and perhaps some temporary investment pressure on margins. Could you talk a little bit about the kind of the key factors driving that potential pressure early this year? And then maybe the longer-term outlook is -- should we think about these -- the '25 B2B margins as kind of the right place to think about the long-term outlook for the B2B business on the margin side?**Kenneth Gawrelski:** B2B ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋™์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ์ง‘์ค‘๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  26๋…„์„ ์ „๋งํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ, ๋งค์ถœ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  B2B ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ๋งˆ์ง„๊ณผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž ์••๋ฐ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ดˆ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ž ์žฌ์  ์••๋ฐ•์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์ธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ „๋ง ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š”, 25๋…„ B2B ๋งˆ์ง„์„ B2B ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ „๋ง์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ ์ • ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Chief Financial Officer: Yes. Ken, let me work from the bottom up there. First off, on margins, and we talked about this last quarter as well. As we're redeploying a portion of the savings that we're delivering in other parts of the company, we're investing in B2B initiatives that will weigh in the short term -- on our near term, we'll be weighing on our margins there. But we'll continue to do those investments because that's one of the vectors that we see a strong growth opportunity for the company, and I'll let Ariane jump in on that in a second. That's factored into our Q1 and our 2026 guide. And so without getting into guiding by business unit or talking about specific numbers, we've had, what, 18 quarters now of strong double-digit growth in B2B. So I think it's relative -- been relatively consistent and strong double-digit growth. And as we invest in the new products and new lines of business, we feel like we can make that continue going forward.**Chief Financial Officer:** ๋„ค, Ken. ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฐจ๋ก€๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ๋ถ„ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, B2B ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ฃผ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ํ›„ Ariane์ด ๋ณด์ถฉ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 2026๋…„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ณ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋‚˜ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, B2B์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ 18๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ผ์ธ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: And I'd just add, we took actions to win wallet share with existing partners. The B2B business benefited from the supply work that I was referring to earlier. The fact that we had more partners participating in Black Friday, we had an increase in the number of properties, all of that flows through into B2B, plus some of our large partners made particular investments in marketing in the fourth quarter, which we then benefited from. Our travel agency platform (sic) [ Travel Agent Affiliate Program ], which we call TAAP, performed very well. We expanded the loyalty program. We grew the number of agents that were active in the fourth quarter. On our Template, which a number of partners use. We've improved the configurability. I mentioned we launched our first assurance offering. So it's really -- the team is innovating across the product and technology. We're adding supply. We're deepening our partner relationships. And that's been a formula that's worked for us. Now as I always tell the team, it's a competitive industry. We're going to win some deals. We're going to lose some deals. The important thing is that we keep on adding partners. We keep on innovating. I think the work that we're doing in the new lines of business is going to be very exciting for the years to come. And we really believe in this business.**CEO & Director:** ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ง€๊ฐ‘ ์ ์œ ์œจ(wallet share)์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์„ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•ž์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ž‘์—…์˜ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธ”๋ž™ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฐ์ด์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋งŽ์•„์กŒ๊ณ , ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์‹œ์„ค ์ˆ˜๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด B2B๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋”ํ•ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์— ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ์ž…์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ TAAP์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ œํœด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ(Travel Agent Affiliate Program)๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋’€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ์ˆ˜๋„ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ…œํ”Œ๋ฆฟ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์„ค์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ณด์ฆ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋„ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ€์ด ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋„ ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ณต์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํŒ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋“ฏ์ด, ์ด ์‚ฐ์—…์€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์น˜์—ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋”œ๋„ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ  ๋†“์น˜๋Š” ๋”œ๋„ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์† ํ˜์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋งค์šฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ์ง„์ง„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question is from Deepak Mathivanan with Cantor Fitzgerald.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Cantor Fitzgerald์˜ Deepak Mathivanan๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Deepak Mathivanan: Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Research Division So Ariane, can you talk a little bit more about the product development efforts on the AI experiences side? Are you approaching it -- generally using the current LLM architecture and your cloud partners? Or do you think you need to fundamentally build new AI capabilities specific to travel, maybe with Expedia data in a unique way? And then if I can ask one for Scott. How should we think about the tech and infrastructure investments that's required to build and support some of the AI experiences? Is the platform currently already well positioned to trade on AI capabilities? Or do you anticipate potentially making some investments on this front?**Deepak Mathivanan:** ๋จผ์ € AI ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ LLM ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜์™€ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด Expedia ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์— ํŠนํ™”๋œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด AI ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Scott์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํˆฌ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ํ˜„์žฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ AI ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”?
CEO & Director: Sure. So in the product, I think of AI in a couple of ways. One is just in the existing flows, how do we use AI to make a better traveler experience. So that is personalization. It's better recommendations. It's better ranking models. It's more personalized content. So if someone has -- always goes to properties that have spas, how do I make sure that, that is what -- that we're highlighting on properties. So that's one sort of real area of, I think, potential product improvement in performance. The other is everything related to natural language engagement with the product, which I talked about earlier. How do you introduce natural language, how do you make it both sort of typing and also spoken. And I would say it's earlier days on that, but that's also sort of a vector that we're going down. I'll give you an example, though, of why I believe both things need to live side by side. If you think about something like servicing, you can go into our app and you can go through the native flow and make changes, cancel, change your room type in a few clicks. You can also do that in the servicing agent. And we want to make sure that we give people the choice of which of those makes the most sense to them. In terms of the question about sort of the architecture and the technology, I would start by saying it is grounded in our data. So a lot of the work we've done in the last couple of years has been about making sure that we have clean data, we've got customer data, destination data and the like. And our tech teams are looking at the architecture. They're learning. They're obviously staying on the front foot on how things are evolving. And in fact, some of the partnerships that we're doing, whether it's around agentic browsers and the like, really does keep us on the forefront, and that's true both for our consumer business and for our B2B business.**CEO & Director:** ์ œํ’ˆ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ AI๋ฅผ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ์—์„œ AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”, ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ถ”์ฒœ, ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๋žญํ‚น ๋ชจ๋ธ, ๋” ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด์ฃ . ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ŠคํŒŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆ™์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ˆ™์†Œ์—์„œ ์ŠคํŒŒ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์˜ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์—ญ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์–ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋ž™์…˜๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๋ฐ, ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์—ฐ์–ด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋„์ž…ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€, ํƒ€์ดํ•‘๊ณผ ์Œ์„ฑ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ด๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ณต์กดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋น„์‹ฑ(servicing)์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์ €ํฌ ์•ฑ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ํด๋ฆญ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ, ์ทจ์†Œ, ๊ฐ์‹ค ์œ ํ˜• ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๋น„์‹ฑ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜์™€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์šฐ์„  ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์˜จ ์ž‘์—…์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ, ๋ชฉ์ ์ง€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋“ฑ์„ ์ •๋น„ํ•ด์™”๊ณ ์š”. ์ €ํฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ํŒ€์€ ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ง„ํ™” ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ์„ ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ . ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ €(agentic browsers) ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ์— ์œ„์น˜์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ B2B ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋‘์— ํ•ด๋‹น๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: You want to talk briefly about the platform and kind of how you see that, and then I'll pick up on the numbers.**Chief Financial Officer:** 200000

ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ํ›„, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ด์–ด์„œ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Sure. I mean, look, the platform, I mean anybody who tells you their platform is done is not truthful. At the same time, I don't foresee some kind of big platform transformation like we had in the company a few years ago at all. I think it's about understanding where the technology is evolving, understanding where are the pieces that we need to shift, where are the new architectures we need to look at. But I would say it's not on one end of the spectrum or the very other end of the spectrum.**CEO & Director:** ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์™„์„ฑ๋๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์†”์งํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์–ด๋””์ธ์ง€, ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŽ™ํŠธ๋Ÿผ์˜ ํ•œ์ชฝ ๊ทน๋‹จ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์ชฝ ๊ทน๋‹จ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: Yes. I think that's well said. I think the dynamic is it's not a majority of our spend, but it's a continual spend to make sure that our platform is contemporary and continues to evolve. I think the other thing I'd point to how we're thinking about it, and I think in the spirit of your question, as we think about reshaping the product and technology teams, what we're trying to do is look at how do we operate smarter, how do we operate in a way that's more efficient and effective, and simplify the organization and our decision-making and speed. And at the same time, bring new talent in around AI and machine learning that can develop -- help develop our products in ways that Ariane just talked about. So while there will be some net benefits to that, I think, in the margin rate, overall, I think that's a cut cost to invest and grow strategically.**Chief Financial Officer:** ๋„ค, ์ž˜ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง€์ถœ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ทจ์ง€์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํŒ€์„ ์žฌํŽธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋” ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์กฐ์ง๊ณผ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ • ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— AI์™€ ๋จธ์‹ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹(machine learning) ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ธ์žฌ๋“ค์„ ์˜์ž…ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ Ariane์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 87

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ(margin rate)์—๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ˆœํŽธ์ต์ด ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: And I said in my prepared remarks that even though we're using AI more and we're growing the business, we've optimized our cloud spend and some of our technology spend. And going back to the whole theme of discipline and making every dollar matter, you can just count on the fact that the way we are looking at the technology work, it's how do we make sure we have the platform that we need, and we're doing it with sort of the cost also in our mind.**CEO & Director:** ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, AI๋ฅผ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์ง€์ถœ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ด€๋ จ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทœ์œจ๊ณผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์˜๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘๊ณ  ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question is from Naved Khan with B. Riley Securities.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ B. Riley Securities์˜ Naved Khan๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Naved Khan: B. Riley Securities, Inc., Research Division Ariane, I have one question on alternative lodging. So you've had alternative lodging on Brand Expedia for some time. And I'm curious if you can provide any color on what the uptake is for -- what the mix looks like for alternative lodging versus hotels, today versus maybe a couple of years ago or just last year. Is that growing? Or are you still trying to get more adoption there? And then for Scott, maybe can you just maybe talk a little bit about CapEx for 2026? And how should we be thinking about that?**Naved Khan:** ์•„๋ฆฌ์•ˆ, ๋Œ€์ฒด ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„์—์„œ ๋Œ€์ฒด ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ ์ง€ ๊ฝค ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋Œ€์ฒด ์ˆ™๋ฐ•๊ณผ ํ˜ธํ…”์˜ ๋ฏน์Šค๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€, ํ˜„์žฌ์™€ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „ ๋˜๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์•„์ง ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์ž…์„ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Šค์ฝง์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” 2026๋…„ ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
CEO & Director: Sure. It's definitely growing. It's -- to me, it's not where it's not at its maximum potential, and that's why I believe that there's a real opportunity there. But we made great progress in 2025 on selling vacation rentals on Brand Expedia. We changed the UX. So if you go on to lodging, you now see sort of there's all lodging and then hotels and vacation rental. We brought on inventory. We made sure the servicing experience was great. So there was a lot of work that we did to drive more vacation rentals on Brand Expedia to support our one-stop shop value proposition, and there is still upside there.**CEO & Director:** ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์•„์ง ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์— ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„์—์„œ ํœด๊ฐ€์šฉ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค(vacation rentals) ํŒ๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํฐ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ค˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜(UX)์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ ์š”. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ˆ™๋ฐ• ์„น์…˜์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์‹œ๋ฉด ์ „์ฒด ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋‹ค์Œ ํ˜ธํ…”๊ณผ ํœด๊ฐ€์šฉ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ถฉํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋„ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›์Šคํ†ฑ ์‡ผํ•‘ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ต์Šคํ”ผ๋””์•„์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํœด๊ฐ€์šฉ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ƒ์Šน ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: On CapEx, it will be roughly in line with '25. I wouldn't -- I don't anticipate a material change one way or the other.**Chief Financial Officer:** ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์€ 25๋…„๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋А ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ๋“  ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question is from Lee Horowitz with Deutsche Bank.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋„์ด์น˜๋ฑ…ํฌ์˜ Lee Horowitz๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Lee Horowitz: Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division I guess, one, as you think about your 2026 outlook, can you comment at all if it assumes your B2C business accelerates relative to the 5% you delivered this year? And how you're thinking about the challenges you may face in terms of delivering acceleration while simultaneously bringing down the intensity of your ad spend? And then maybe just on AI, topic of the day, topic of the week. I guess how are you thinking about the potential urgency to invest more aggressively into loyalty in your B2C business as some of these general purpose chatbots take on more of the customer relationship and the travel funnel?**Lee Horowitz:** 2026๋…„ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ B2C ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ 5% ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์ง€์ถœ ๊ฐ•๋„๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋ฉด์„œ ๋™์‹œ์— ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง๋ฉดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ œ๋“ค์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  AI ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์š”์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ์ฃผ์ œ์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฒ”์šฉ ์ฑ—๋ด‡๋“ค์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„์™€ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ตฌ๋งค ์—ฌ์ •์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, B2C ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ์— ๋” ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ธด๋ฐ•์„ฑ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: I'll take the first -- I'll take the last part of the question, and then Scott can take the first. Look, we always feel a sense of urgency to make sure that we're delivering more value and more trust to our travelers. And travel is a high stakes purchase or it can be. It's complex. It's high stakes. It's not like a T-shirt where if you choose the wrong one, you can send it back -- is if there's something that happens in your trip, you never get your time back. And that's why we're investing a lot in making sure that not only we have a great selection and price and assortment, and the ability to add trip elements after you bought one, but also building trust. We've got proprietary verified reviews, and we know that 70% of travelers check reviews before they make a booking. So the fact that when they make their booking with us and they do their shopping, they're going to have that trusted information is really important or the fact that if something goes wrong in the trip, they're going to be able to either deal with it in our app or call us is important. I'll just add that during the winter storms and government shutdown, we were able to answer our calls on average between 1 to 3 minutes, which is the best in the industry, we believe. And travelers want to know that we've got their back. So of course, continuing to enhance the loyalty program is one piece of our offer, but there's a lot of different parts that we believe make travelers want to continue a deep relationship with us.**CEO & Director:** ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ Scott์ด ๋‹ต๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์—ฌํ–‰์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•จ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌํ–‰์€ ๊ณ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด์ฃ . ํ‹ฐ์…”์ธ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž˜๋ชป ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆํ•˜๋ฉด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ค‘์— ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ง€์™€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ , ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•œ ํ›„์— ์—ฌํ–‰ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์—๋„ ํž˜์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋…์ž์ ์ธ ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋œ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌํ–‰์ž์˜ 70%๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์ „์— ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์ €ํฌ์™€ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์‡ผํ•‘ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ค‘ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•ฑ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ „ํ™”๋กœ ๋ฌธ์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ฃ . ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง๋ถ™์ด์ž๋ฉด, ๊ฒจ์šธ ํญํ’๊ณผ ์ •๋ถ€ ์…ง๋‹ค์šด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  1~3๋ถ„ ๋‚ด์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ž๋ถ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ ๋“ ํ•œ ์ง€์›๊ตฐ์ด ๋˜์–ด์ค€๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋กœ์—ดํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ(loyalty program)์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ €ํฌ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ์™€ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ด ์™ธ์—๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Chief Financial Officer: Yes. Maybe to try and be helpful. I'm not going to get into by BU guide for '26, but maybe just some thoughts around guidance overall. First off, for Q1. We exited Q4 with strong clear momentum. I think we're all encouraged by our strong start to the year. And we expect our first quarter bookings growth of 10% to 12%. That, of course, includes 3 points from an FX tailwind, but we expect to be able to deliver that. I wouldn't expect a material difference in growth rates amongst the BUs, but obviously, it does vacillate up and down a bit even in '25. For '26, at the high end, our full year guide of 8% reflects stable, healthy growth on a constant currency basis at the high end again. As we -- we'll update you each quarter as we go along. But again, I wouldn't expect a material shift in an overall growth rate between business units, if you look at the last couple of years average -- last year's average, I should say.**Chief Financial Officer:** ๋„ค, ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ณ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์ฃผ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ 10%์—์„œ 12%๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ™˜์œจ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 3%ํฌ์ธํŠธ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ๊ฐ„ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์— ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ง€๋งŒ, 2025๋…„์—๋„ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋“ฑ๋ฝ์€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒ๋‹จ์ธ 8%๋Š” ๊ณ ์ •ํ™˜์œจ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ž‘๋…„ ํ‰๊ท ์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ๊ฐ„ ์ „์ฒด ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์— ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our last question will be from Trevor Young with Barclays.**Operator:** ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฐ”ํด๋ ˆ์ด์ฆˆ์˜ ํŠธ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„ ์˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Trevor Young: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division You spoke to supply growth earlier in your comments. Was that largely a B2B dynamic outside of the U.S.? Or are you seeing some of that in B2C domestically? We've had a few major hotel supply partners speaking to pushing more inventory to the OTAs in 3Q and 4Q and being sharper on pricing and so forth. And so we were just wondering if that was a tailwind for your U.S. room night growth contributing to that coming in at high single digits again. And then my second question is on the Tiqets acquisition, it appears to be more positioned on the B2B side. Is there an opportunity to leverage that on the B2C side as well to push into experiences more broadly across your customer base?**Trevor Young:** ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์™ธ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ B2B ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด B2C์—์„œ๋„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์ฃผ์š” ํ˜ธํ…” ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์ด 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— OTA๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ์‹ค ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์ผ์ˆ˜(room night) ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธ์ •์  ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Tiqets ์ธ์ˆ˜์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B ์ชฝ์— ๋” ์ดˆ์ ์ด ๋งž์ถฐ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ B2C ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฒดํ—˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๋” ํญ๋„“๊ฒŒ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
CEO & Director: Sure. So on the first question, the supply, it works on both parts of the business, B2C and B2B. So when I talked about 10% growth in number of properties and then also the promotions, that flows through to both. And that's just the way the platform works, and that's the way our business model works. And it's a value that we deliver to our supply partners is they have one connection and they can get access to all of the demand. In terms of Tiqets, yes, I did talk about it as part of our B2B business because it's going to be run by the person who's leading B2B. And we think it's a great value proposition to be able to extend what we're offering in B2B. But obviously, it is going to -- their expertise is going to have an impact in B2C. So while we're -- we'll keep our B2C product, when you bring in some expertise like that, it can only help us do even better.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” B2C์™€ B2B ์–‘์ชฝ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋‘์— ์ ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์‹œ์„ค ์ˆ˜ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ํ™œ๋™์€ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ์ž‘๋™ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ๋‹จ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜์š”์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์ธ (Tiqets) ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ œ๊ฐ€ B2B ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. B2B์—์„œ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ์€ B2C์—๋„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ B2C ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ์„ ์˜์ž…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: The Q&A is now over. I will now turn the call back to CEO, Ariane Gorin, for closing remarks.**Operator:** Q&A ์„ธ์…˜์ด ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ์œ„ํ•ด CEO ์•„๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ๊ณ ๋ฆฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: So I just want to thank you all for joining our call today. We closed 2025 strong. And as we enter '26, we remain focused on executing our strategy to deliver value for all of our stakeholders. So thank you all.**CEO & Director:**

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 2025๋…„์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026๋…„์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์† ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Operator: This concludes today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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# Expedia ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์š”์•ฝ (2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ)

## ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค
- **4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€ ๊ฐ•์„ธ**: 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ  10-12% ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ œ์‹œ (ํ™˜์œจ ํšจ๊ณผ 3%p ํฌํ•จ), 2026๋…„ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€ 8% ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง
- **๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„  ์ง€์†**: B2C ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์„ GBV ๋Œ€๋น„ 50bp ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ 3-4%p ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ (์—ฐ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์™„๋งŒํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„  ์ „๋ง)
- **B2B ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ**: 18๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ง€์†, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ 24% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ ์œ ์ง€

## ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต์  ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ
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