Welcome to The Priceline Group's Second Quarter 2016 Conference Call. The Priceline Group would like to remind everyone that this call may contain forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from those expressed, implied or forecasted in any such forward-looking statements. Expressions of future goals or expectations and similar expressions reflecting something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements. For a list of factors that could cause the Group's actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the Safe Harbor statements at the end of the Group's earnings press release as well as the Group's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unless required by law, The Priceline Group undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. A copy of the Group's earnings press release together with an accompanying financial and statistical supplement is available in the For Investors section of The Priceline Group's website, www.pricelinegroup.com. And now, I'd like to introduce The Priceline Group's speakers for this afternoon, Jeffery Boyd; and Daniel Finnegan. Go ahead, gentlemen. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you very much and welcome to The Priceline Group's second quarter conference call. I'm joined this afternoon by our Priceline Group's CFO, Dan Finnegan. I am pleased to report that the Group produced another solid quarter despite an often challenging market backdrop. Execution was consistent across the brands as we achieved several important milestones as a…

Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets. Your line is open.

Thanks. Can I ask you to talk about two growth areas? One, the China outbound market – just an update there and then on the alternative accommodations market, you gave some numbers there for total number of room nights. Could you just talk about traction? And what you're doing in terms of trying to include that in the purchase path? To what extent you're trying to do that and just a general update on end market. Thanks a lot. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Mark. The China outbound market continues to be a market that is large and growing and that we all view has great potential because of the demographic factors that are well known affecting China. We have a number of different ways to participate in it. We participate in it through our partnership with Ctrip where our international hotels are shown to their customers, and Booking.com and Agoda also participate directly in selling outbound to international travelers coming from China. I know there's been a lot written about a slowdown in overall economic growth in China, but we still view it as a very, very attractive market that will have substantial macro tailwinds helping build both the middle class and travel demand, and we want to participate in it. With respect to alternative accommodations, as you can see by the numbers that we disclosed and sort of the ongoing property counts on Booking.com in particular, we have built a very large inventory of dynamically-bookable non-hotel accommodations, and we view it as a growth opportunity for our brands and for Booking.com in particular. And most importantly, our customers have gotten used to having a world-class content and a great experience both in booking and at stay, and that's something that we're determined to deliver. With respect to alternative accommodations, we also have, I think, one of the best distribution networks; in other words, one of the best ways to market those properties of any player in the space and look forward to doing that. In terms of how those are presented on the website, that's something that's determined by technology and the experience we have with users on the website. There's always an opportunity to select those properties for customers who want to use the various filters that are available. So there's a lot of different ways to get to them. But the most fundamental element of it is that we are trying to show the particular customer what they're most likely looking for and that drives the presentation.

Thank you, Jeff.

Our next question comes from the line of Justin Post of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Your line is open.

Thanks. I would like to focus on the performance advertising. One of your competitors, Expedia, mentioned maybe a competitor benefited from some of their challenges. Has that helped at all in your third quarter outlook? And then on a bigger picture basis, guiding to margin deleverage picking up there, what's causing that and how do you think about margins longer-term for the Group? Thank you. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: Hey, Justin. So for performance advertising, we specifically called out in Q2 that one of the drivers of the pressure – in fact, the principal driver as it relates to performance advertising – was growth in those channels outpacing growth overall in the business. So we did have some success there. For Q3, that is part of the assumption again, but we are also seeing some pressure on ROI trends relative to prior year. And we think that's principally due to the fact that we're now lapping the period where ROIs started to improve year-over-year a year ago. And – I'm sorry. What was your second question?

Just longer-term, it looks like you are going to have some marketing pressure maybe over the next year. How do think about long-term margins? Can you keep them stable or how are you thinking about that? Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: So similar to what we've said in the past in that regard, we feel if you break it into three pieces, brand advertising, although we've had deleverage pressure from that from time to time, for the long run, we feel that we will be able to deliver operating leverage there. Similar story for non-advertising OpEx where the business has typically grown more quickly than those expenses have, and we feel good about being able to control that for the future. So that leaves the performance advertising, which is by far the biggest expense bucket. We've had several years now of pressure on that metric. Our Q2 results show some pressure and our guidance for Q3 expects there will again be pressure. So beyond that, we don't have a forecast for you. You can make your own prediction as to how that will play out, but that's been the track record to date.

Great, thank you. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: You're welcome.

And our next question comes from the line of Brian Nowak of Morgan Stanley. Brian Nowak - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Thanks a lot. I have got two. Just to go back to the performance marketing and the incremental pressure you are seeing, can you just help us out a little bit? Are you seeing deteriorating ROIs on a like-for-like basis or is this more geographic mix or channel mix? Just kind of talk a little bit about the drivers of the extra pressure you are seeing? And then secondly, on cancellations, I think last quarter, Dan, you talked about cancellations picking up a bit. I don't think I heard any mention at all this quarter. Just talk about cancellation trends you are seeing. Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: So, Brian, I'll take the first one and Dan can take the question on cancellations. With respect to getting into more detail on performance marketing, we typically have tried to shy away from that because very often the color that we could give you would essentially be – tip our hand in terms of what we are doing in the market. We're such a large player in the marketplace that a lot of times, the trends are in part driven by what we're doing. So I don't want to get into a lot of detail on that. I think as Dan said, we have seen pressure on that over the last several years, and I think it's fair to say that some of that is competitive pressure with scale players like Expedia being able to be more aggressive in the market as their operational execution has improved. And essentially, our goal is to continue to build market share of the business at reasonable ROIs, and our outlook has not changed on that in any fundamental way over the last several years. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: And in terms of cancellation trends, Brian, no big change from last quarter. So the longer-term trend has been that our cancellation rates have increased. There was a little bit more volatility in it last quarter, and so we called that out, but the cancellation increases that we've seen are built into our gross bookings and room nights booked, which were all net of cancellations. So we feel like the growth even net of that increase in cancels is pretty solid. Brian Nowak - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Great. Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: You're welcome.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Douglas Anmuth of JPMorgan. Your line is open.

Hi. This is (27:36) for Doug. Thank you for taking my question. My question is on the brand spend. I think you made a comment about trimming brand spend in 2Q. Is this (27:47) pushed back over a change in strategy? And then for the brand spend going forward, are you guys planning on doing any more brand spending in the U.S.? And as a follow-up, can you talk about the growth in U.S. versus Europe, given the macro and security uncertainty in Europe? Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: So I'll answer the first question on brand spend, and Dan can talk about the macro impact on the U.S. versus Europe. We said in the prior – in our prior call that we expected to have a seasonally higher brand spend than we typically would have in the second quarter as spend in Q1 was essentially shifted into Q2. We did experience a higher brand spend than we typically would, but just not to the degree that we forecast. The spending in the United States in general will continue. I think you will continue to see brand advertising by Priceline.com and by Booking.com in particular in the United States. So our outlook on making that investment over the long-term hasn't changed, but the absolute amount of that investment in the second quarter was a little bit less than we had forecast. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: And in terms of performance by region between the U.S. and Europe, and Europe is our biggest market by far. It's our most mature, so it's growing more slowly than our consolidated growth rate typically. We're pleased with the growth performance for Europe in Q2 and year-to-date. There were impacts in France and Belgium from terrorist attacks, but overall the region is still growing well. U.S. is one of our newer markets, and it's typically growing faster than our consolidated growth rate. And Booking.com in particular continues to build its business in the U.S., and so we're pleased with our overall growth rate in the U.S.

Thank you. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: You're welcome.

Our next question comes from the line of Lloyd Walmsley of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Thanks. I had a couple questions on the vacation rental, the non-hotel business. The last few years, you have given us a room night number or a booking number in that channel over the last 12 months. Wondering if you can give us an update there. And then, as a follow-up, just curious, as you get more regulatory pressure on that type of inventory, I am curious what your approach is to listing in markets where they have made certain types of it illegal. Are you still taking a really conservative approach? And then, have you seen any – I guess any tick-up in your core hotel business in markets where they have gotten more restrictive on regulation of alternative accommodations? Curious what you are seeing there. Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: With respect to the first question on quantifying the number of room nights in the non-hotel business, that's not something that we have done in the last couple of quarters, and we're not doing it this quarter. We've given the room counts, but we haven't given that level of detail. With respect to regulatory pressure, the Group is not taking the position that we would operate this business in markets and with properties where it's contrary to the law. We're a law-abiding company and we're not trying to disrupt the legal system. So I guess, if you would characterize that as being a relatively more conservative approach to it, that is our approach. And what was the third question? Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: Pickup in hotels. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Oh...

In terms of impact to the core hotel. Some markets that have gotten perhaps more restrictive on alternative, are you seeing a benefit in your core hotel business? Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: No. I don't think that the size of the non-hotel accommodation business that's being done away from us is big enough where that level of disruption would be visible to us in the positive sense.

Great. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chris Merwin of Barclays. Your line is open.

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. So, I guess last quarter, Expedia talked a bit about spending more dollars on Facebook and I think in your 10-Q, you listed Facebook as a brand advertising partner. So just curious if you have any plans to increase spend in that channel going forward? I know obviously, it is not quite a performance-based channel like Google, but if you can still track ROI in a platform, does that make it easier to scale up spend there? Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: I think we would like to spend more money on Facebook going forward. We have a good relationship with them, and we've found that a number of things that we've done on Facebook works well, particularly retargeting, which really is more of a performance-based analysis the way we look at it. So, I would look for us to be doing more. As you could see by Facebook's announcement, the scale of their advertising business is growing, and while it traditionally has been more of a brand advertising platform, we like to work closely with Facebook to find ways to make more performance-oriented placements work for us. And that's something that we continue to be interested in doing.

All right. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tom White of Macquarie. Your line is open. Tom White - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Great. Thanks for taking my question. Just one on the corporate travel opportunity. You guys have been quietly innovating there recently. And I think a few quarters ago, you said one in five bookings was corporate or business travel. How do you guys think maybe that mix looks like in three years to five years? I mean, can you guys kind of ever get to 50-50, you think, with the product offering you have now? And then just a quick follow-up, in terms of the marketing efficiency of some of your newer customer cohorts, specifically for some of your newer geographies, just curious where you think you are or where they are trending relative to your more mature markets in areas like return on investment or repeat purchase behavior, direct traffic, those types of metrics? Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Tom. On the corporate travel opportunity, we always suspected that we had a substantial number of business users that were using our product, but we didn't until more recently have data on it, which is where that one in five number comes from. And that intuition gave us reason to look at the market more aggressively and try to build some functionality that would be targeted directly at corporate travelers. And so that one in five number represents the self-reported usage of our customers, and what the opportunity is, is to build a business of business travelers using the tools that we provide for them and to try to get that share to go up. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to whether it would ultimately be 50-50. In the United States, the average hotel has 30% business traveler, 30% leisure traveler and 30% large groups for big hotels, so that gives you sort of a breakdown at least in the U.S. market as to what the market kind of looks like. But we think there's a great opportunity to build awareness among business travelers that Booking.com in particular is a great place to go and for business owners to use the tools that we're building which we think will help us build share there. With respect to marketing efficiencies in newer markets, it's traditionally been the pattern that we have been willing to invest in marketing in new markets in order to build share and to build awareness of our brands until we got to a point where we'd achieved enough scale where the more normal ROI patterns would obtain. I don't have anything particular to report to you on that front. There may still be some markets where we're not long-tenured and are doing some investing, and that would be very, very consistent with how we've run the business over the long-term. Tom White - Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc.: Thank you.

Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Brian Fitzgerald of Jefferies. Your line is open.

Thanks. Jeff, you talked a bit about performance advertising on Facebook and maybe just wondering, are you currently using dynamic product ads for travel there on Facebook and Instagram? Any dynamic to call out with those formats specifically? And then you also mentioned KAYAK's Facebook Messenger service in your prepared remarks. What's been there the traction initially on that product? Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: So, I'll answer the second one first, which is the KAYAK product on Facebook is fairly new as are most of the technology that's interacting with either with robotic texting or natural language processing with a voice like an Alexa. So that stuff is all in the very early stage and I think it's terrific for our teams to be innovating on those platforms because it puts us in a position to participate and benefit if those platforms ultimately grow to be meaningful sources of demand for e-commerce like ours. With respect to the particular advertising products that are available on Facebook, our teams look at everything. I don't have any particular comment on dynamic product ads or others. Dan, I don't know if you have any comment to make on that. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: No. No, we're working closely with the Facebook team. Our teams are very innovative and they're looking hard to spend as much in those channels as they can at a reasonable ROI.

Got it. Thanks, guys.

Our next question comes from the line of Ed Sheridan (sic) [Eric Sheridan] (39:37) of UBS. Your line is open.

Thanks for taking the question. Maybe just two. One that we get a lot from investors, Jeff, I'd love to get your take is how the competitive environment might be changing as a result of some of the hotel groups pivoting more towards trying to drive direct booking awareness either through couponing or discounting or loyalty reward programs, how you think that's impacting the competitive environment? And the second one on BookingSuite. Wanted to know if we can get an update there on how the product set continues to evolve, what that might be doing more broadly for the platform, especially with respect to driving loyalty around inventory? Thanks, guys. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. Thank you, Ed (sic) [Eric] (40:22). So with respect to the competitive environment and the hotel direct book, the hotels have consistently been working hard over the years to maximize the traffic that goes to their own direct websites, and they've done it over the years through driving single image pricing, through a very substantial investment in their own web experience, and we look at the availability of different prices for their members on the website as an evolution of that effort. Our approach is to try to make sure that our customers have the best prices that are published and available, and I think we're doing a pretty good job of accomplishing that. And I think that given the scale of our business, we're in a position where it's a reasonable ask that the largest player in the space be able to show competitive prices to its customers. My belief is that those efforts will continue, and we'll continue to press to make sure that we've got competitive pricing. And I will say that if over the long-term…

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Perry Gold of MoffettNathanson. Your line is open.

(43:47) question. At what point in the lodging cycle do you believe hotels are generally forced to lean in more aggressively to drive demand through your brands? Is it when RevPAR first goes negative, slightly before or some time afterwards? Thanks so much. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: We actually think it's good for the hotels to lean into our products in any market because ultimately if they use our channel to drive strong demand for their property, it puts them in a position to maintain or increase their ADRs even if the market is relatively strong. So, our look at it would be that hotels should participate aggressively at all times in order to maximize their RevPAR. There's no question that if ADRs start to drop, and in particular occupancy starts to drop, then hotels may have more of an incentive to participate in programs that could enhance the demand that they get from us, but we think it's a good idea regardless of market cycle.

Great. Thanks.

Your next question comes from the line of Kevin Kopelman of Cowen and Company. Your line is open. Kevin Kopelman - Cowen & Co. LLC: Hi. Thanks a lot. So you mentioned hitting about 24 million bookable rooms. Can you give us any color on how you are thinking about runway for properties and rooms and what kind of addressable market you have there? Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: We still think there is a substantial opportunity to increase the number of properties on our websites, and on the Booking.com platform in particular, and as we mentioned in the prepared remarks, a fairly substantial growth in the size of the platform over the last couple of years, I think, is evidence of that. You can tell from the math, and we've said on prior occasions a number of times that the typical average size of the property that we're bringing on to the platform now is smaller because we're dealing with non-hotel accommodations to a large degree, and those tend to be much smaller than the larger hotels, most of which we've already addressed although there still is opportunity in the hotel space as well. So in some, substantial opportunity to continue to increase the size of the platform, although diminishing return in terms of the number of rooms available per property. Kevin Kopelman - Cowen & Co. LLC: Thanks, Jeff.

Our next question comes from the line of Justin Patterson of Raymond James. Justin T. Patterson - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Great. Thank you very much. Going back to vacation rentals, we have seen one of your competitors put up some pretty solid results; you are still having solid results. Can you talk about just the advantage that you have from having the – not charging the consumer a fee here with bookings? How long do you think charging the consumer is actually sustainable in this market? Thanks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: I think we like our model compared to the other models out there. We have a scale customer base that's used to doing business with us on these terms, and I think we're doing a good job of building the relationships and the business processes and the automation to enable us to deliver the experience to the user when they're booking a non-hotel accommodation or a property that's not being managed by a professional owner. So we like that business model. We like that hand of cards that we've been dealt. I think that HomeAway's customer bases and their owners are chafing a little bit at a substantial increase in fees, and ultimately, in a competitive marketplace for these types of properties, consumers have been shopping around for hotels for 15 years, 17 years now. And it's probably the case that over time, they'll shop around for vacation rentals, and ultimately it'll be about finding the best value. And I'm hopeful that we'll be able to provide the best value. Justin T. Patterson - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Thanks.

And our next question comes from the line of Peter Stabler of Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Thanks. I got a quick follow-up to Eric's question on the hotel and direct initiatives. Is it safe to assume that, to the extent that hotels are offering significantly discounted prices on their direct channels, that they will suffer a negative impact in terms of their ranking position on Booking.com? Thanks very much. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: I'm not going to get into a conversation about, if they do this, will you do that? That's between us and the hotels, and judging by the questions, I just want to underscore that we have great long-term relationships with the hotel chains. We've been in business with them since I started in the business in 2000, and I would expect those relationships to continue to be strong, and we provide a lot of business for the hotel chains, and we provide business in languages and in destinations that it's hard for them to access directly, but we have a unique benefit that we provide, and we absolutely value the inventory that we're getting from our partners here. So I wouldn't express it as if they do this, we'll do that kind of a situation. This is a partnership.

Thanks for the color, Jeff.

Thank you. And our next question comes from Michael Millman of Millman Research. Your line is open.

Thank you. Following up some other questions regarding the effects of the economy and terror, particularly in Europe, would you suggest that you are seeing about the same number of travelers? Are you seeing – and in the U.S. However, particularly in Europe, are you seeing them move more to the south, where there are lower ADRs? And are you seeing an effect from that? And secondly, you talked about the long-term corporate, but is the conditions affecting corporate travelers; in other words, corporations are trying to keep their people – they think keep their people safe? Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: On the first question, Michael, we have seen some relative strength in the South Spain and Portugal have been very strong markets. Turkey is not. Turkey has been an impaired market, between terrorist attacks and then the attempted coup. Some of the other markets that have been strong, like Ireland and Germany, so people shying away from some of the markets where terrorist attacks have been taking place in the past, and where maybe they have more of a fear of safety for traveling there at the moment. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: Yeah. And, Michael, I wouldn't – there's nothing that we can see from our results that indicates a major trend of corporations pulling back travel because of safety concerns. I'm certain there are some business travelers who have canceled trips in the immediate aftermath of some of these events, but broadly speaking, a major pullback is at least not obvious in the numbers we're looking at.

And the Spain and Italy question, is that affecting your ADRs? Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: Well, Spanish ADRs have been very strong. So all of that demand shifting there is actually having a positive impact on the ADRs in those markets. And overall, you can see our ADR trend has been roughly stable, down slightly, less than a percent. So nothing really to call out there.

Great. Thank you. Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: You're welcome.

And our next question comes from the line of Naved Khan of Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is open.

Hi. Thank you very much. Jeff, I think in your prepared remarks you touched upon KAYAK and its strong performance. Can you give us some more color on what is actually working here and if you've launched in any new markets? And then I have a follow-up. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: So, KAYAK has had a good run of performance here this year. They've done a very nice job of not only building query demand in the United States and elsewhere, but they're doing also a good job of continually innovating with respect to their product and with respect to mobile in particular, which helps with the flow-through of the economics. So they're doing a very nice job and their international expansion continues. I don't have anything to tell you particularly about this market or that market but KAYAK continues to, I would say, in a measured way build its footprint internationally.

Okay, thanks. And then, Dan, can you talk a little bit about, what does your guidance include with respect to any kind of impact on the Olympics positive or negative? Daniel J. Finnegan - Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer: We don't see any major impact one way or the other on that, Naved. So we didn't call anything out. We didn't build anything specifically in there.

Okay, thanks. And then one more question, if I may, since nobody asked it. So, any update on the CEO search? Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Naved, the CEO search continues in the normal way with a committee of our board and the recruiting firm and they are right in the middle of it.

Thank you.

We have no further questions in the queue. This does conclude the question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back to The Priceline Group team for closing remarks. Jeffery H. Boyd - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you all very much for participating in the call.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating in today's conference. This does conclude the program and you may all disconnect.