We note that traffic and revenue improved in July versus June, and while we are mindful of the variance and their potential impacts on travel and the high percentage of domestic traffic, half of the year and 2022, when the recovery broadens as both urban and international travel return in full.
Aug 6, 2021 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / Steve Kaufer, CEO | earnings call 2021-08-06 | transcript b2c23f45-960d-4ad5-a5f8-304ac8dc9f18 | chars 2175-2470 | segment 2
And given the size of our global audience and the amount of inventory they have, there's not going to be anything manual about the whole process. so uh we aim to scale you know we have experience working with uh ota's and bringing breadth of inventory on board to trip advisor uh in our sort of past lives and trip.com has distributed their inventory to other players as well so uh again i i think it's a a pretty good match the Trip.com has global inventory. They literally have tons of hotels in every single country in the world. Historically, Trip.com has served more outbound travel from China, but with their acquisitions, they've established a much more global footprint of travelers as well.
Aug 6, 2021 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / Steve Kaufer, CEO | earnings call 2021-08-06 | transcript b2c23f45-960d-4ad5-a5f8-304ac8dc9f18 | chars 28218-28917 | segment 28
As you know, we just launched the product a couple months ago in the US. So the question I guess you're asking is like, what have we learned so far? Well, I'd say the biggest thing absolutely above our expectations is that we're saving a lot of money for travelers.
Aug 6, 2021 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / Steve Kaufer, CEO | earnings call 2021-08-06 | transcript b2c23f45-960d-4ad5-a5f8-304ac8dc9f18 | chars 7438-7703 | segment 7
And as a matter of fact, we're testing an expansion into our experiences booking flow not just the hotel booking flow as we really want to kind of expand the offering as you know we have discounts on not only hotels but experiences and we want to leverage all the traffic to help even more travelers take advantage of these savings but to be fair no product ever launches without some pitches and so while I'm excited about the traveler savings exceeding our expectations You know, to be candid, we haven't made as much progress signing big chains as I would have hoped.
Aug 6, 2021 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / Steve Kaufer, CEO | earnings call 2021-08-06 | transcript b2c23f45-960d-4ad5-a5f8-304ac8dc9f18 | chars 8043-8613 | segment 8
Travel recovery is underway.
Aug 6, 2021 / CEO / receipt, needs a key / Steve Kaufer, CEO | earnings call 2021-08-06 | transcript b2c23f45-960d-4ad5-a5f8-304ac8dc9f18 | chars 30311-30339 | segment 30