On the sports strategy, when you think about the Miami Open or Madrid, if you've ever been to the Madrid Open, it's kind of, I mean, one of the biggest attractions, they sell these packages for the food festival that happens outside. In addition, we're adding a music festival. So those are not, yes, they're sports, but they're really events, cultural events surrounding. Same thing with Miami. So when you think about those sports, as you define the sports, those are actually really events. A sport is the UFC, a sport is WWE. Yes, PBR is there. But that's also an event, a country kind of event that travels.

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Reportedly, This event is projected to set a world record for the largest number of Americans traveling internationally for a single sporting event.

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And whether it comes to pruning our portfolio or just freezing hiring in T&E, you can bet we're lifting all levers.

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In the first quarter, we sold out every pay-per-view at the UFC. saw an increase of 40% year over year of out-of-town fans actually coming and traveling to our events.

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As more states and countries loosen travel and gathering restrictions and vaccination rates increase, we are beginning to experience accelerated demand across our 800-plus global events portfolio.

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And an increasing number of fans are traveling to fight from out of state. On average, about 40% of fans in the quarter, nearly double pre-pandemic figures.

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