Similarly, This is Beyond's flagship events, We Are Africa and L.E. Miami, delivered exceptional experiences in Q2, convening a highly curated global community of luxury travel leaders. Their focus on premium, purpose-driven experiences aligns with evolving B2B customer expectations and further strengthens Emerald's position in the high-growth global luxury travel market.

Aug 4, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Herve Sedki, CEO | earnings call 2025-08-04 | transcript 5cc9f96a-1d31-48a1-a3c5-3cc9c20296e3 | chars 8735-9109 | segment 8

The year-over-year decline is largely due to lower compensation and travel expenses in both our content and commerce businesses, offset by incremental expenses from acquisitions.

May 1, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / David Doft, CFO | earnings call 2025-05-01 | transcript f8ce316e-bd32-4ff9-8a77-1a3f8d6561cc | chars 10067-10245 | segment 10

Its two largest events are Pure Life Experiences, which is focused on high-end experiential travel sector, LA Miami, which focuses on the high-end contemporary travel sector and caters to a creative and consumer base, Other notable events include We Are Africa, which supports high-end travel to Africa, Further East, an event held in Bali for the high-end APAC travel region, and Specialists in Entertainment Travel, which addresses the entertainment travel sector for touring, music, and other entertainment acts, among others.

Mar 14, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Herve Sedki, CEO | earnings call 2025-03-14 | transcript 3f8a34b5-9f02-47ce-b1e0-4a1b9b6b2910 | chars 5625-6154 | segment 5

For example, Our exposure to the luxury category, now across high-end jewelry and travel, among other subsectors, has increased over 13% of revenue on a pro forma basis from less than 8% before, while our exposure to the technology sector has increased to 15% on a pro forma basis from 13% before.

Mar 14, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / David Haas, CFO | earnings call 2025-03-14 | transcript 3f8a34b5-9f02-47ce-b1e0-4a1b9b6b2910 | chars 17310-17607 | segment 17

I'd answer that in two ways. One is, yes, it is our first travel acquisition. But I really see this acquisition just as much as being in the luxury sector than it is in the travel sector. So I really make that distinction. It's really in luxury and it's also in travel. One of the most exciting opportunities, in addition to it being an outstanding growing business, is really, as I mentioned in my prepared remarks, the entrepreneurial spirit of the founder and the team that have really been extraordinarily successful through launches. So they started with one event and then expanded from there. And in the discussions that we've had with them over the last few months, there are some very interesting and unique launch concepts that we will be exploring together. And so we will, I expect, that, as I mentioned, that this will be a good contributor to our accelerator strategy and that we will be launching alongside the This is Beyond team. In terms of other travel acquisitions, we, as I mentioned, we have a rich pipeline. We don't go through the detail of our pipeline clearly and the sectors that they're in, but we do have a rich pipeline. And we're not necessarily focused on the travel sector as a sector in and of itself, but if there are some growing assets, long-term growth assets in the travel sector, and there are a couple out there, then, of course, those would be interesting to us.

Mar 14, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Herve Sedkey, other | earnings call 2025-03-14 | transcript 3f8a34b5-9f02-47ce-b1e0-4a1b9b6b2910 | chars 30889-32293 | segment 31

In 365-day engagements, we are providing multiple entry points to the customer engagement cycle through trade shows, conferences, webinars, media content, and commerce. This reinforces our brands in their respective markets, increasing their reach and driving down the acquisition cost of attendees to our events. This is where we're seeing the most opportunities to scale by leveraging artificial intelligence, where we have numerous tests across our content and marketing teams. We're excited about some of the early results and expect to fully implement it in certain areas of the business in 2025.

Aug 8, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / Irvi Sedky, CEO | earnings call 2024-08-08 | transcript 631cd97d-4ecb-435e-8a00-fbe5f74094fc | chars 5094-5695 | segment 5

So Hotel Interactive is a series of events that are called hosted buyer events. We've talked about these from time to time. They're smaller events where we invite a small group, of in-market executives that have budget authority, buying authority to a resort location for a couple of days. We pay for them to come. That's why it's called hosted buyer because we host them. And it's funded by sponsors who want to get in front of them with their products and services.

Aug 8, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / CEO, CEO | earnings call 2024-08-08 | transcript 631cd97d-4ecb-435e-8a00-fbe5f74094fc | chars 24742-25209 | segment 25

The year-over-year increase is largely due to the impact of the acquisition of Hotel Interactive, which closed in January, severance expense related to recent changes to de-layer some of our senior leadership teams, acquisition integration costs, and a $1.5 million increase in estimated contingent consideration payments for past acquisitions, which flows through the PML at an expense, even though it will be purchase price when ultimately paid.

May 7, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / David Doft, CFO | earnings call 2024-05-07 | transcript e7d92778-9b51-4ed5-8757-ccb18227650d | chars 10126-10573 | segment 10

We expect that the reopening of international travel, the easing of supply chain constraints, and their removal of the COVID overhang will help drive incremental attendance and revenue growth in 2023 and beyond.

Mar 14, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Irve Sedky, CEO | earnings call 2023-03-14 | transcript c366ef7e-625d-4727-ad4d-56446d575146 | chars 3086-3297 | segment 3

In contrast to business meetings, many of which have shifted permanently to virtual formats, In person, B2B trade shows remain an essential part of customers' marketing and travel budgets.

Nov 3, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Hervé Sedky, CEO | earnings call 2022-11-03 | transcript d7038da3-1ad0-403a-9fa1-4450b937ecad | chars 5806-5994 | segment 5

We consolidated over 50 plus disparate sources into one. Not only will our modernized and highly efficient database improve our ability to cross-sell and up-sell to customers who are natural fits for multiple trade shows and content brands, it also provides Emerald with opportunities to leverage our substantial data assets related to building and consumer spending.

Aug 8, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Hervé Sedky, CEO | earnings call 2022-08-08 | transcript 77e253fd-3d04-457b-a30e-b2dc6c9d8b9a | chars 7650-8017 | segment 7

Trade shows remain an integral part of our customers' marketing budgets and provide a high return on investment as they are often the biggest selling events of the year for companies that exhibit.

Aug 8, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Hervé Sedky, CEO | earnings call 2022-08-08 | transcript 77e253fd-3d04-457b-a30e-b2dc6c9d8b9a | chars 3459-3655 | segment 3