Expedia Group, Inc. (EXPE) Deutsche Bank Technology Conference Call Transcript

Expedia Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE) Deutsche Bank Technology Conference Call August 29, 2024 5:45 PM ET

Company Participants

Ariane Gorin - CEO

Conference Call Participants

Lee Horowitz - Deutsche Bank

Lee Horowitz

I think that's our queue. So thanks so much for joining us. We're delighted to be closing out our 2024 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference today with Ariane Gorin, the new CEO of Expedia Group.

Prior to her role as CEO, Ariane has held multiple executive leadership roles at Expedia over 11 years, most recently serving as the President of the highly successful Expedia for Business Unit, which we will learn more about today. Prior to '21, Ms. Gorin served a number of senior positions, including President of Expedia Business Services, Expedia Partner Solutions, amongst others. Ariane will do a brief presentation and then we'll open it up for Q&A.

So Ariane, the floor is yours. Thank you so much.

Ariane Gorin

Okay. Thank you so much, Lee. So as we said, I'm going to start out by just sharing a bit more about our B2B business. As I've gotten spoke some time with our investors over the last few months in my new role. I get a lot of questions about B2B. And so what I wanted to do ahead of our conversation with Lee is just share a bit more about the business.

I won't go through the normal safe harbor disclosure. But just, again, for those of you who may be less familiar with Expedia Group, as a reminder, we are a travel and technology company. We've got a number of big consumer brands Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo. And we have a big B2B business where we power partners, and that's what I'll talk about for the next few minutes.

We also have a large media and