SAFESTAY PLC (SSTY) — Interim Results

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning and welcome to the SAFESTAY PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may have been in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company will review your questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Peter Zilker, COO. Good morning, sir. Thank you very much, and good morning to everybody, and welcome to our presentation sharing our half year results for the first six months of twenty twenty three from SAFESTAY hostels and hotels. Thank you for tuning in this morning, and thank you very much for your interest in SAFESTAY PLC. Presenting today is my colleague, Paul Hinxton, chief financial officer, and myself. As for myself as a brief introduction, I joined SAFESTAY just under a year ago. My background of the last thirty years in hospitality industry is mainly branded hotel background. My last role was a director was director of operation for a UK company looking after their Southern UK and Central UK properties, mainly Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, and Marriott branded properties. And before that, I worked in various countries, mainly for branded properties as well. What attracted me to join SAFESTAY just under a year ago, I said, is is the the fantastic property portfolio we have, but also this somewhat niche market of the hospitality industry, which offers fantastic opportunities to grow, to to push further ahead. And, of course, SAFESTAY is in...