Donald Yu
谢谢,Mary。各位好,欢迎参加我们2019年第一季度财报电话会议。2019年,途牛专注于保持和扩大其长期竞争优势。在供应端,我们继续整合和加强供应链,以便为客户提供高质量且价格具有竞争力的产品。2019年第一季度,直接采购占我们打包旅游GMV的比例达到60%。我们还继续完善我们的地接社,以便为客户提供最高质量的服务。截至2019年3月31日,途牛运营着31家地接社。在销售渠道方面,我们继续通过社交营销、线下门店和B2B分销,在渠道多元化方面取得进展。截至2019年3月31日,途牛在中国各地运营着536家线下零售门店。我们还通过进一步整合专业且专注的客服代表,对线下和线上体验进行了投资。技术方面,途牛继续大力投资创新旅游产品的开发和生态系统的强化。多年来,途牛在[听不清]技术开发上投入了超过[20亿元人民币][ph]。我们的动态打包系统继续保持行业领先地位,允许客户将我们的产品(如机票、酒店预订和目的地产品)动态打包成一个捆绑产品。总体而言,我们的服务、销售和技术网络对于我们长期区别于同行的能力至关重要。今年我们还进一步强调改善客户体验。我们自有品牌产品的用户体验、动态打包系统的价格竞争力以及客服代表的服务质量等领域将成为重点关注的议题。我们将利用我们广受认可的品牌和广泛的用户偏好数据,通过新工具提供高质量产品,这些工具正在组织由途牛直接设计和采购的旅游产品。以及途牛精选,这是我们顶级供应商的最畅销产品。2019年第一季度,我们还调整了公司架构,以便更好地执行未来的战略。我们的领队旅游事业部主要专注于为客户提供高质量服务。我们的笛风系统专注于供应链和B2B分销。通过这些调整,我们能够更好地协调各业务部门的利益,并为每个事业部制定更详细的战略和目标。长远来看,这些变化将使途牛能够更好地适应中国旅游行业的变化。现在我想更详细地更新我们的一些核心重点。首先,我想谈谈产品供应。我们认为途牛在旅游产品方面的核心优势可以分为三个主要组成部分:多元化、质量和价格。途牛的直接采购产品、我们的新旅游产品为中高端客户提供高质量服务。途牛根据市场需求创建旅游产品,主要关注热门目的地。我们的旅游产品基于我们在每个目的地多年的经验设计,为客户提供真正独特的体验。对于我们的供应商,我们最近推出了新类别——来自我们供应商的顶级产品,这些产品具有较高的用户评分、复购率和一致的服务质量,可以被归类为途牛精选。途牛将为这些高质量产品提供优先展示和推广。在满足客户多元化需求方面,途牛提供广泛的产品SKU选择,包括我们的新旅游产品和途牛精选产品。质量方面,途牛继续提高产品的最低要求。产品需要保持超过80%的用户评价分数才能继续在途牛上架,此前为75%。我们重新确定了产品供应的优先级,专注于热门目的地的最畅销产品。这使我们能够进一步将用户流量集中到最畅销的产品SKU上,改善旅游体验并提高客户复购率。此外,通过对这些畅销产品进行集中采购,我们可以提高议价能力并有效增加产品利润率。通过强调产品,我们能够通过提供与同行差异化的产品来保持竞争优势。此外,通过进一步将产品重新分类到不同类别,我们能够根据客户的偏好和人口统计数据更有效地推荐产品。途牛的动态打包系统,将单个产品和服务打包成一个捆绑产品,继续得到完善。该系统利用了我们多年来在整合旅游供应链和系统开发方面的积累。通过我们的动态打包系统,两个产品捆绑在一起的价格比单独购买这两个产品更便宜。我们认为这个功能对[听不清]旅游者有很高的价值,因为它提供了一种明确的省钱方式和简化的预订流程。接下来,我想谈谈我们在改善途牛整体用户体验方面的进展。我们通过进一步将线上专业客服整合到线下体验中,继续完善线下门店的用户体验。像我们的社交营销应用这样的工具,具有许多应用和增长,使我们的线下门店员工、线上客服代表和社交营销零售商能够有效地向各自的社交圈销售途牛的产品和服务。这进一步将途牛的销售网络扩展到本地社区、社交增长和各种消费场景。第一季度,线下零售门店贡献了我们打包旅游总销售额的20%。我们的线下零售门店使我们能够积累更强大的销售渠道,并将长期受益。今年我们将放缓新线下零售门店的开店速度,以提高现有门店的效率,尽管我们的线下门店模式已经明确定义。我们相信在产品供应和门店管理方面仍有改进空间,可以进一步释放这些门店的盈利潜力。社交营销是本季度的另一个亮点。我们去年开始开发社交营销分销工具,以便为我们的线下门店提供更广泛的产品选择能力,并有效地将我们的产品和服务分销到他们的社交网络。该工具已获得社交营销分销商、社区影响者和塔楼分销商等可操作方的强烈关注。我们的社交营销工具用户在销售过程中具有优势,因为他们能够轻松地将途牛的产品分销到他们的社交圈。我们的社交营销分销应用也在本季度推出。该应用为分销商提供了更广泛的功能,使他们能够更轻松地浏览可用产品和服务,并分享到各种渠道。截至第一季度末,我们的社交营销工具上已开设了超过5,000家店铺。2019年3月,这些店铺中有78%是活跃的。我们还整合了社交营销工具的使用,通过微信与客户互动,提高现有客户的复购率。最后,我想简要谈谈我们的不同B2B分销。笛风仍然是中国唯一提供完整旅游产品和服务套装的旅游B2B分销商。因此,笛风继续在供应商和分销商中获得广泛欢迎。本季度,笛风上产生的打包旅游同比增长约58%。由于B2C旅游是相对低频的消费,而B2B分销是高频的,我们相信笛风将帮助我们提高分销的一致性。展望未来,笛风将继续成为我们销售渠道和中国旅游行业的关键部分。途牛在2019年将专注于保持并进一步扩大其竞争优势。我们将在关键领域投入更多资源,例如改善旅游产品和客户体验。我们相信,提供更高质量和多元化的产品以及提供卓越的客户体验,是途牛真正区别于市场同行的两个关键领域。现在我将把电话交给我们的CFO Maria Xin,介绍财务亮点。
Donald Yu
Thank you, Mary. Good day, everyone. Welcome to our 2019 first quarter earnings conference call. In 2019, Tuniu focused on maintaining and expanding its long-term competitive advantage. On the supply side, we continue to consolidate and strengthen our supply chain in order to offer high-quality and competitively priced products to our customers. During the first quarter of 2019, direct procurement as a percent of our packaged tour GMV reached 60%. We also continued to refine our local tour operators in order to provide the highest quality services to our customers. As of March 31, 2019, Tuniu operates 31 local tour operators. For our sales channel, we continue to make strides in diversifying our distribution channels through our social marketing, offline stores and B2B distribution. As of March 31, 2019, Tuniu operates 536 offline retail stores throughout China. We also made investments to our offline and online experience by further integrating our professional and dedicated customer service representatives. Technology wise Tuniu continued to heavily invest in the development in innovative tours and the strengthening of our ecosystem. Over the years Tuniu invested over [RMB2 billion] [ph] in the development of [indiscernible] technologies. Our dynamic packaging system continue to be industry-leading allowing our customers to dynamically packaging where we have our products such as air tickets, hotel booking and destination-based products into a one bundled product. Overall, our service sales and the technology networks are essential to our long-term ability to differentiate ourselves from our peers. This year we are also put further emphasis on the improvement of the customer experience. Areas such as user experience of our prior tired products, price competitiveness of our dynamic packaging system and the service quality of our customer representatives will be key topics of focus. We will leverage our widely recognize the brand and extensive data, our user preference to provide high quality products through a new tool which are organizing tours that are directly designed and procured Tuniu. And Tuniu section which is our best selling products from our top suppliers. During the first quarter of 2019, we also made adjustments to our corporate structure in order to better execute our strategies in the future. Our leader travel division. We are primarily focused on providing high quality service to our customers. Our Difeng system, we are focused on the supply chain and the B2B distribution. With these adjustments in place, we are able to better align the interests of our business departments and to set more detailed strategies and goals for each division. In the long run these changes will give Tuniu the ability to better adapt to the changing in travel industry in China. I would like now to give an update on a few of our core focuses in greater detail. First, I would like to talk about the product offering. We believe Tuniu's core advantage in travel products can be categorized into three main components; diversification, quality and the price. Tuniu's direct procurement products, our new tour offers high-quality services to medium to high-end customers. Tuniu creates tours based on the market demand and primarily focus on popular destinations. Our tours are design based on our years of experience in each destination and provide a truly unique experience for our customers. For our suppliers, we recently launched the new category, top products from our suppliers that's how higher user ratings, repurchase rate and consistency in service quality can be categorically [read] [ph] as Tuniu selection. Tuniu will provide listing -- priority revisions and promotions for these high quality products. In terms of catering to the diversified demands of our customers, Tuniu offers a wide selection of products SKUs to the commitment of our new tour and Tuniu selection products. Quality wise, Tuniu continues to raise the minimum requirements products. Products are required to maintain a user review score of more than 80% in order to remain listed on Tuniu. This is up from 75% previously. We have reprioritized our product offerings to focus on the best selling products in popular destinations. This allows us to further concentrate our user traffic into the top-selling products SKUs improving the travel experience and increasing customer repurchase rate. Also by collectively making procurements of these bestselling products, it allows us to improve our bargaining power and effectively increase our product margins. By emphasizing products, we are able to maintain our competitive advantage by offering differentiated products from our peers. Additionally by further reclassifying our products into different categories, we are able to more efficiently recommend products to our customers based on their preference and demographics. Tuniu's dynamic packaging system, which packaged together individual products and services into one bundle continues to be refined. This system leverages our years of accumulation in consolidating the travel supply chain and the system development. Through our dynamic packaging system, the price of two products bundled together is cheaper than individually purchasing the two products. We believe the feature is a highly valuable to [sub-guiding] [ph] tour traveler's as it provides a clear way of saving money and simplifying booking process. Next, I will like to talk about our progress in improving Tuniu's overall user experience. We continue to refine the user experience of our offline stores by further integrating our online dedicated and professional customer service into the offline experience. Tools such as our social marketing app, which have many applications and which had growth allow our offline store employees, our online customer representatives and the social marketing retailers, the ability to effectively to sell Tuniu's products and services to their respective social circles. This further enhances Tuniu's sales network into local community, social growth and various consumption settings. During the first quarter, offline retail stores contributed to 20% of our total package tour January during the quarter. Our offline retail stores allow us to accumulate a stronger sales channel and will benefit us in the long-run. This year we will slowdown the opening of a new offline retail stores compared to last year in order to enhance the efficiencies of our existing stores although our offline store model is all already clearly defined. We believe this continues to be room for improvement in product offerings and in store management that can further unlock the profitability potential of these stores. Social marketing is another highlight during the quarter. We started developing our social marketing distribution tool last year in order to provide our offline store with the ability to provide a wider range of products selection and efficiently distribute our products and services to their social networks. The tool has gained strong traction with actionable parties such as the social marketing distributors, community influencers and the tower distributors. Users of our social marketing tour has advantage during the sales process as they are able to easily distribute Tuniu's product to their social circle. Our social marketing distribution app also launched during the quarter. The application provides a wider range of features for distributors allowing them to more easily browse through the available products and services and to share into various channels. As of the end of the first quarter over 5,000 stores have been opened on our social marketing tool. During March of 2019 78% of these stores are active. We have also integrated the uses of our social marketing tool to improving repurchase rate of our existing customers by engaging with our customers through WeChat. Lastly, I want to briefly talk about our different B2B distribution. Difeng continues to be the only travel B2B distributor in China to offer the complete suits of our travel products and services. As a result, Difeng continues to gain popular retail among suppliers and distributors. During the quarter packages tour generated on Difeng increased by approximately 58% year-over-year. Because B2C travel is a relatively low frequency consumption, while B2B distribution is high frequency. We believe Difeng will help us increase the consistency of our distribution. Going forward, Difeng will continue to be a crucial part of our sales channel and in the Chinese travel industry. Tuniu in 2019 will focus on maintaining and further expanding its competitive advantage. We will put increased resources in key areas such as the improvement of our travel products and the customer experience. We believe that in the offerings our higher quality and diversified products and providing a superior customer experience our two key areas that we have in Tuniu truly differentiate itself from market peers. I will now turn the call over to my Maria Xin, our CFO for the financial highlights.