Conor Yang
Analyst · Goldman Sachs
Thank you, Donald. Hello, everyone. I’ll now walk you through our fourth quarter and full-year 2015 financial results in greater detail. Please note that all the monetary amounts are in RMB, unless otherwise stated. You can find U.S dollar equivalent of the numbers in our earnings release. Fourth quarter 2015 results. Starting from the fourth quarter 2015, that the packaged tour gross bookings for the quarter increased by 102.1% year-over-year to RMB2.7 billion, including 65.7% from outbound tours. For both quarter, net revenue were RMB1.9 million, representing 104.1% year-over-year growth. Revenues from organized tours substantially all of which are recognized on gross basis, were up 101.4% year-over-year to RMB1.8 billion, and accounted for 95.2% of our total net revenues for the quarter. The increase was primarily due to the rapid growth in demand for travel to certain international destinations, such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and for domestic tours. The number of trips for organized tours, excluding local tours, increased by 122.9% year-over-year to over 429,000 and the number of trips of local tours increased by 44.8% year-over-year to over 362,000. Revenues from self-guided tours, which are recognized on a net basis were up 82.4% year-over-year to RMB52.2 million and accounted for 2.8% of our total net revenue. The increase was primarily due to the growth in travel to both domestic destinations, certain islands, and Japan. The number of trips for self-guided tours increased by 174.7%, year-over-year, to over 319,000 in the fourth quarter of 2015. Other revenues which are recognized on a net basis were up 434.3% year-over-year to RMB47.3 million, primarily due to a rise in service fee received from insurance companies, revenues from tourist attraction tickets, online financial services and other travel-related products. Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2015 was 4.2% compared to 6.6% in the same period in 2014. The decline in gross margin was primarily due to Tuniu’s competitive pricing strategy and higher costs associated with new regional service center expansion. Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2015 were RMB641.1 million, up 169.3% year-over-year, excluding share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets. The non-GAAP operating expenses were RMB581.9 million, representing a year-over-year increase of 156.2%. Research and product development expenses for the fourth quarter of 2015 were RMB106 million, up 173.8% year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to investments for the implementation of additional product categories such as airline finance services, accommodation, reservation and transportation ticketing, increase in direct procurement related personnel at regional service centers, improvement of online technology, and the rise in technology and product development personnel-related expenses. Sales and marketing expenses for the fourth quarter of 2015 were RMB394.8 million, up 175.9% year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to branding campaigns and advertisements for our mobile business development, expansion of our VIP customer service center, and amortization and acquired intangible assets from the previously announced transaction with JD.com. General and administrative expenses were RMB146.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, up 147.5% year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to an increase in headcount of our administrative personnel as a result of our business expansion, such as regional service center expansion and product category expansion. Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders was RMB547 million in the fourth quarter of 2015. Non-GAAP net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets were RMB487.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2015. As of December 31, 2015, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments of RMB3.7 billion. In the fourth quarter, cash conversion cycle was negative 31 days compared to negative 44 days in the corresponding period last year. Capital expenditures for the fourth quarter of this year were RMB53.6 million. Now moving to our full-year 2015 results. Packaged tours, gross booking for 2015 increased by 114.6% year-over-year to RMB10.6 billion, including 65.1% from outbound tours. Organized tours accounted for 71.7% of the overall gross booking in 2015. In 2015, net revenues were RMB7.6 billion, representing 116.3% year-over-year growth. Revenues from organized tours substantially of which are recognized on a gross basis was RMB7.4 billion in 2015, representing 114.4% increase in 2014. The increase was primarily due to the record growth in demand for travel to certain international destinations, such as Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, and North America and for domestic tours. The number of trips for organized tours, excluding local tours increased by 129.4% to 1.63 million, up from 712,000 in 2014, and the number of trips of local tours increased by 58.4% to over 1.7 million, up from more than 1.7 -- 1.07 million in 2014. Revenues from self-guided tours, which are recognized on a net basis, were RMB194.2 million in the fourth full-year of 2015, representing a 108.5% increase from previous year. The increase in revenues was primarily due to the growth in travel to domestic destinations, certain islands and Japan. The number of trips for self-guided tours increased by 181.6% to 1,114,000, up from 395,000 in 2014. Other revenues, which are recognized on a net basis were RMB127.7 million in the full-year 2015, representing a 344.2% increase from 2014. The increase was primarily due to a rise in service fees received from insurance companies, revenues from tourist attraction tickets and other travel-related products. Gross margin was 4.8% in 2015 compared to 6.4% in 2014. The decline in gross margin was primarily due to Tuniu’s competitive pricing strategy and the higher costs associated with the new -- newly opened regional service centers. Operating expenses were RMB1.8 billion in 2015, representing a 161.1% increase from 2014. Excluding share-based compensation and amortization of acquired intangible assets, the non-GAAP operating expenses were RMB1.7 billion in 2015, representing, up from 158% from previous year. Research and product development expenses were RMB298.2 million in 2015, up 184.3% from 2014. The increase was primarily due to investments for the implementation of additional product categories and initiatives, increase in direct procurement related personnel at regional service centers, and improvement of online technology, and rise in technology and product development personnel-related expenses. Sales and marketing expenses were RMB1.2 billion in 2015, up 165.8% from 2014. The increase was primarily due to branding campaigns, and placement for mobile business development, and amortization of acquired intangible assets from the previously announced transaction with JD.com. General and administrative expenses were RMB385.4 million in 2015, up 130.8% from 2014. The increase was primarily due to an increase in the headcount of our administrative personnel as a result of our business expansion, such as regional service center expansion and product category expansion. Net loss attributable to the ordinary shareholders was RMB1.5 billion in 2015. Non-GAAP net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, was RMB1.3 billion in 2015. In 2015, the cash conversion cycle was negative 30 days compared to negative 34 days in 2014. Capital expenditures for 2015 were RMB130.6 million. First quarter 2016 outlook. Now let me provide a top line guidance for the first quarter of 2016. Tuniu current expects to generate revenues in the range of RMB1.9 billion to RMB2 billion of net revenues, which represents 58% to 63% growth year-over-year. This forecast reflects Tuniu’s current and preliminary view on the industry and its operations, which is subject to change. Thank you for listening. We are now ready for your questions. Operator?