HOSTELWORLD GROUP PLC (HSW) — Introduction to Hostelworld

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the introduction to HOSTELWORLD GROUP PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company will review all of the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. These will be available via your investor meet company dashboard, and we will notify you by email when these are ready for your review. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Gary Morrison. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you very much for the introduction, and welcome, everyone. It's wonderful to have the opportunity to be able to talk about our exciting company for the next twenty, twenty five minutes, and look forward to taking your questions. So if we start with a little bit about who's presenting to today. So, obviously, I'm Gary Morrison, chief executive officer of HOSTELWORLD GROUP. I joined in late twenty eighteen, and I'm joined by Caroline Sherry, our chief financial officer. So I thought I'd start just, you know, talking a little bit about who we are and what we do at a very basic level of detail. So we are a online travel agent focused on the HOSTELWORLD category. And the business was launched about twenty two years ago. And in that time, we've built up 13,700,000 reviews from other hostel travel...