Donald Yu
Analyst · Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead
Thanks Maria. Good day everyone. Welcome to our third quarter 2015 earnings conference call. I am pleased to report that we delivered excellent growth during the third quarter of 2015 with packaged tour GMV and net revenues increasing by 122% and 128% year-over-year respectively. Our growth rates continue to significantly outpace our industry peers and the overall growth of the travel industry. We’re also proud to announce the strategic investments by Hainan Airline Tourism, a leading Tourism Company in China with a reach [indiscernible] travel related resources throughout the travel supply chain in China. Following the US$500 million cash investments priced at US$15.5 [indiscernible]. Hainan Airline Tourism have becomes our largest shareholders with over 24% ownership. Our strategic cooperation with Hainan Airlines Group will benefit us in a number of ways. Following the partnership, we will be able to directly procure a number of Hainan Airline Group's airline and hotel resources at a preferential price. Some of the resources that will now be directly available to Tuniu will include Hainan Air, Capital Airlines, [indiscernible] and various hotel resources under Hainan Airline Group. This is a significant step in improving our direct procurement capability and this allows to directly procure competitively priced air ticket and to assemble it in our packaged tours. Tuniu now have the resource to better connect our 200 departure cities to our 140 destination countries and to better provide high quality travel products to meet the demands of our customers. Our business partnership with Hainan Airline Group marks the beginning of a new era for Tuniu. We will have improved access to resources throughout the travel industry and notably the ability to better connect our own resources. Going forward, the new alliance between Tuniu and Hainan Airline Group will allow additional catalysts that will support our rapid capital growth. Now I will walk through some of our key strategic focus that are essential to ongoing development of Tuniu. These include growing our financial services, capturing market opportunities, continuing our regional expansion, enhancing our direct procurement capabilities and improving our technology. First I would like to talk about one of largest initiative, financial services. Our financial services offering closely complement our all year travel business. We currently offer a range of financial products and services to both our customers and our suppliers. These financial services are designed to dramatically support the overall development of the leisure travel market in China promoting users to travel and supporting suppliers to growth. I’m pleased to announce that our progress in financial services continues to gain traction in both our customers and our suppliers. On the customer end, our traveling - travel financing product had made traveling more successful for many by enabling customers to travel with their initial down payment. This product has been especially popular among the younger generation of travelers who are more price sensitive. In addition to offering financial products, Tuniu also offers a range of wealth management products and insurance products to our customers. On the supplier side, we aim to provide our co-supplier partners with the working capital to provide a high quality travel products at an increased growth. Combined both our customers and supplier related financial services, total transaction volume maintained at over 200% quarter-on-quarter growth rate during the last three quarters with monthly transaction volume reaching over RMB1 billion in October. Additionally because of our large attraction [ph] update, our suppliers and customers there have been no default for any of our loan related products. In addition to the offering of financial services, Tuniu has been implementing a wide range of complementary travel related services and the products such as rail ticketing, air ticketing and hotel booking for our customers, and our packaged tour for business continues to rapidly grow. We continue to make long-term investments in additional business categories in order to create an ecosystem that will complement our whole year travel business. We strongly believe that these investments will grow into our competitive advantage and make positive contribution to our profitability in the long run. In terms of the leisure travel market, there continues to be many opportunities within the supply chain. In the future as our packaged tour business continues to replicate skill and at the same time as Tuniu becomes increasingly integrated into the supply chain, we will unlock additional profitability potentials. Once our long-term investments become fully integrated into our leisure travel ecosystem, we'll expand our margins to begin an upward trend. Now I would like to transition to our progress in regional expansion, which continues to be on pace with our plan. As of the end of October, Tuniu had 140 regional centers across China. That served as half of customer acquisitions and product localization. The positive impact of our regional centers strategy is increasingly clear as we continue to expand our coverage and increase their efficiency. During the third quarter, GMV contribution from the lower tiered cities surpassed the contribution from first tiered cities for the first time. Similarly, the regions covered 58 new regional centers that we opened in 2014 contributed to 17% of our Tuniu GMV. This is up from 6% during the third quarter of 2014. We are excited about the results of our regional expansion path. Going forward increasing the coverage of our regional centers and increasing the efficiency of our established centers will add Tuniu’s call competitive advantage. As our regional expansion continues our direct procurement capability is also improving. Last Monday, Tuniu had its Annual Global Procurement Conference and invited our procurement suppliers from all over the world. The conference was very successful as we were able to sign a number of new suppliers to our direct procurement program and to expand business relationship with existing suppliers. Tuniu’s direct procurement products have always been structured based on the extensive base we have with our travelers demand characteristics and assembled by leveraging our extensive relationship with travel service suppliers. During October and November, Tuniu’s overall direct procurement reached one-third of our total GMV, up from the 25% during the second quarter of 2015. We continue to receive benefits from our increased direct procurement capabilities in terms of pricing competitiveness and as well as the ability to more closely and quickly match the demand of our customers. As example of our direct procurement product is the air ticket plus local tour package which was initially introduced in 2012. This product bundled air ticketing with destination based local tours in order to allow organizers towards – to efficiently gather travelers from various cities and to growth locally. While traditional organizer tours require a minimum number of sign ups, our direct procured package has remote less constraints. During the third quarter of 2015, direct procurement product contributed to approximately 60% of our domestic packages towards GMV. Lastly I want to touch on mobile and technology. In the third quarter of 2015, mobile contribution remains strong while mobile convergence rate continues to be an option. We remain committed to staying ahead of the mobile chain by continuously improving our mobile technology platform so that our customers have a seamless booking experience and have access to crucial travel information on the go. In addition to improving our mobile application for our customers, we have also upgraded the back-end systems for our suppliers. We introduced the latest order of our N-Booking system which is an Internet and mobile supply management system for our suppliers. The new orders of the N-Booking system features interface improvements, infrastructure upgrades as well as English language support for our global suppliers. Additionally, we introduced our own API for N-Booking systems, now our suppliers can have Tuniu integrated into their systems. We’re excited about the progress that Tuniu has made over the years while leisure travel market continues to grow, we will work hard to strengthen our long-term call competitiveness, our progress in brand development, regional expansion, direct procurement, complementary travel related services and the mobile technology are all playing important role in our development. With our order customer contribution rates reaching more than 37%, along our GMV during the third quarter up from 30% during the same period last year. We are confident that Tuniu will be able to continue providing high quality new travel product to our customers. I will now turn the call to over to Conor Yang our CFO for the financial highlights.