And why is that important? That's important because it represents a pretty meaningful part of our business, but not only in addition to hotel rooms, but out-of-room spend. And so we are very hopeful and we see evidence of that not only groups come back, but out of room spend continues to increase.

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Well, probably a question a little bit above my pay grade, but what we're seeing down on the ground is there is wage inflation now. It is difficult to higher source quality employees our wage rates are moving up in certain areas we are offering small small sign-on bonuses etc and we are limiting in several of our hotels we're limiting the number of services that we could provide as a result however based on what we've seen in some of those markets where they have cut off the incremental unemployment benefits, the supplemental unemployment benefits. There seems to be an easing in the hiring process, and that gives us some hope that following Labor Day, following the sunset of some of those benefits, that we should start getting some relief on the labor side.

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