On a year-over-year basis, flight reservations maintained a high double-digit growth. And travel activities in the APAC region rebounded very quickly in the past summer, with flight reservations up 400% year-over-year. And both our air and hotel reservations in the APAC region are making solid progress toward full recovery to the pre-COVID levels.

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On the sales and marketing side, we always follow a very strict ROI-driven investment protocol for our sales and marketing standings, and a large majority of our sales and marketing expenses is discretionary. In the Q3, we actually increased the investment in sales and marketing activities in both the China and overseas markets just to capture the very strong recovery momentum, especially at the beginning of the Q3. And our marketing spending in China was swiftly scaled down in the second half of the quarter as the travel demand declined due to the emergence of COVID cases and as well as the strict travel control measures. Going forward, we will keep an agile spending protocol and be adapted to the faster changing environment just to swiftly capture the recovery opportunities and to retain resources in the tough time.

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Outside of China, the recovery momentum in Europe and the US remains robust, while the Asia-Pacific region is accelerating. Our international brand showed further improvement in July and August, benefiting from the higher price and more long-haul travels. Although we are still catching up with the 2019 number, we expect to see a healthy revenue growth in Q3 on a year-over-year basis. which is driven by strong demand for summer travel in China and robust recovery in the global market.

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