Good morning everybody Julia Tyson tourism director for snowmass tourism. Thank you for joining this morning. We wanted to go to the agenda here talk about a little bit of a business outlook for going forward. We are looking back a little bit on our key highlights from 2024. We have produced an annery report which I'll show you. Michelle is also going to link it in the chat for us this morning and we do have some limited hard copies of it and then Bill Thompson just kind of and they. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. I'm going to show you a little bit of the details. and a report which is available as I said digitally as a flip book. It'll be linked in the chat and then we do have limited copies of anybody, hard copies of anybody wants those. We did present it to the tourism board yesterday and we're presenting it to town council on Monday as just sort of a key highlights of what we accomplished in 2024. So there's a lot of good data in there. We're going to just kind of for the sake of time give you the highlights of that this morning. First of all, a little business outlook, how is snowmast doing and what's happening? Paid occupancy from the winter excluding April, we don't have those numbers yet. We were looking a little bit down at 4% down and paid occupancy. We were buoyed by rates up 2.2% for a total rev par of a negative 1.8. So not quite flat, but close. As of March 31st, the future six months are looking a little bit soft at 6.5% down and paid occupancy. Again, buoyed up by rate at 2.8%. Rev par is currently at negative 3.7. We would expect to see that fill in as we go through April and may certainly for the summer and fall season. And we'll talk about all the great efforts that we are working on to fill the summer season. In the wrap book, you'll see the historical occupancy. We have this chart that outlays out 2017 to 2024. As you'll see, not a ton of growth in terms of the growth of the overall occupancy. I've called out the highest winter occupancy in 1819 season at 67 percent and the highest summer occupancy was in 2021 at 55 percent. Definitely room for growth there. We'll talk about some of our efforts. Of course, this doesn't take into account the increase in inventory over recent years. That's just paid occupancy year over year where we have seen incredible growth, which is probably not a surprise to this group is in our total revenue based on the ADR currently in snowmass this this winter. Our average daily rate is excluding April. So we'll come down a little bit with the April month in there. We are at $824. Last winter we were at $727 average daily rate. Last summer we were at $277. So you can see in this chart just the staggering increases we've seen in total revenue, which is good for our tourism budget, which has been at about a little over $9 million with an additional $5 million going into the housing fund. You'll see the correlating graphs representing the sales tax that fuels our budget and the lodging tax with increases of over 100% there on sales tax and 97 and 75% in the lodging tax. So, really strong numbers in terms of overall revenue. General tourism outlook, of course, there are some negative factors, particularly in the international market inbound into the US, which could certainly impact snow of their citizens and of course economic pressures with the trade wars and some shifts in exchange rates or it's really causing some downward pressure on the international market. I've grabbed this slide, which shows international arrivals into the US through 10 of the US busiest airports from January through March. The top bar there shows US citizens returning back into the country, which I would likely that peak there is spring break travel. US citizens, according to travel sentiment surveys, are still very eager to travel abroad. The orange bar is foreign arrivals into busiest airports in the US showing January through March at a negative 18%. So just a visual of what we're seeing in terms of the international impact on the global scale. I grabbed some stats from tourism economics. They're forecasting double digits, a nearly 13% decline in visitation into the US in 2025. That was formally prior to the inauguration. They were projecting a 9% increase. So pretty significant drop there from original projections. And you can see their inbound travel on the national level, pretty significant double digits, decline projected, amounting to a $22 billion annual loss into the US travel market. No surprise, our neighbors in Canada are forecasted to have the steepest decline. And as I mentioned, and I'm sure a lot of you are aware, the value of currency in our key markets against the US dollar is certainly creating some downward pressure there in terms of the cost of coming into the US and I just listed there what I saw last week in terms of decline against the US dollar again double did. you you I think while Julia has cut out, why don't we toss to Shane to see if he can take us through summer special events? No problem. That's a shame. Hey everybody, I'm Shane, that are the senior events producer for Snowmass Tourism. And we do have our official summer calendar that has been released. We just officially released our summer lineup as well. And we're really excited about all the fun activities we have coming for you. So if we can go to the next slide, I'll do a quick rundown of the calendar. I wonder if Julia is unable to advance. Michelle, can you take over? In a moment, I will get it up. Stand by everybody. Sorry for the technical difficulties. Sorry, everybody. I just had a long day to back out. I understand I cut out. See if I can pull this back up for everyone. Music Whoever is making coffee make one for me. Can everybody hear me now? Yes, we I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I I'm so sorry about the audio there and I'm gonna go to your first slide. Great, thank you. So kicking off the summer this year, we have Ragnar Relay race coming back, which everybody knows the 24 hour foot race that we have down by that basis out of town park. Snowmass rendezvous, which is our first tasting event of the season to kick off, we've actually moved to the next weekend of a summer, held balance out the calendar a little bit. We found that we had a great opportunity to fill that weekend when all the businesses are opening on the 14th. So rendezvous will officially set us set us off for the event season within the village. 20th and 22nd food and wine classic. And what we've decided to do to not compete with the food and wine, but have an alternative for some of our community members and for kids and families is having our snow mass community kickoff. This is also opening day for the gondola. So having all those things come together with bikers and everybody in the village, we thought that we would have a celebration of starting off the summer and being able to provide information to everybody as far as our events calendar. Trails, bus schedules, you name it, we're going to have city departments that are down there that are going to help distribute that information and get the summer kicked off. The mall block party is a new activation that we're doing. That's community activation is really promoting all the businesses up in the mall, reminding everybody of all the restaurants and all the retail and all the great things that are happening up there as well as having a fun day of activations, games, cocktails to go and all types of shenanigans that will be providing up there at the ball for that kickoff. We round out the month with the snowmast dog washing days. This is a new activation we did last We found it was really fun. We had a lot of success with a lot of participation from the community and we wanted to bring that one back. So everybody get ready at the end of the month bring their dogs out and have a fun day down the event salon. That moves us into July, which will start the month with our fourth of July celebration. And we do have a concert on Friday night. We will have our Thursday night concert traditionally on the third, but then on the fourth, we will have the spasmatics back. We played the fourth of July last year as well as a deja vu performance there for us. And that brings us into the height of the season and then snowmast comedy festival the next weekend. And with just I don't forget on the fourth of July celebration, we have the rodeo on Wednesday. We're going to have our Thursday night concerts on Thursday. We're going to have the 4th of July celebration at the big concert stage on Fannie Hill on Friday, as well as our Americana music series up at the rock garden there, which is the top of the skills area that will have another concert. So it's a music field weekend, and be a lot of fun for the Fourth of July celebration. Snowmass Comedy Fest is back for its second year and we are moving around the village at different locations. You will see activations at the Ranger Station, at Rock Islands, at the Collective, at the Base Village Conference Center for the Headline Act. We're really excited about the line up this year. Sarah Sanders and the Collective have done a really great job curating this festival for us in the village. Anders and Ranch will have their annual picnic in auction that will happen on July 12th. We always welcome that. I implored by you to go down there and check it out. There's some really great deals on some hards. It's a great time to walk around that campus store in that day as well too. Triple Crown World Series, which is a youth baseball league that has been coming here for a number of years, is back this year and it will be down at Town Park using the fields. And that starts on the 17th with their ceremony celebration. The games will continue throughout the weekend. In July now, we've got a lot of races that have come together. So we have the Audi Power 4-foot race that will happen on 19th, that also has a Snowmass 10K, which last year was the first year they had that. So still promoting that 10K part of the race. On July 26th, we'll go into the Snowmass 50 bike race. So back to back weekends for big races, whether we're on foot or on wheels, we gotta race for ya. And then we're gonna end that month around it out with another Snowmass dog wash day. Moving into August, Heritage Fire, which traditionally is the last weekend of July, where the calendar is worked out. We've pushed that just one weekend further into August here, and Heritage Fire will kick off that month. And then bring us into the Plan Air Arts Festival, which if anybody attended last year, we moved down to the events lawn. It was quite successful. And the most art sales that we've had yet with the festival. And we're looking to repeat that this year down the events lawn. And the sales will actually happen on the 9th and 10th Saturday and Sunday. But the artists will be here from the 4th all the way through the 10th, painting all over the valley and all over the village. In the eighth and ninth, the Snowmass Trio, which is our beer run, that's a great local's activation where you can take a walk with a dog, you can take it serious and run this class so you can, a walk with a dog, you can take it serious and run as fast as you can, but we've got the 2K, the 5K, and 10K race for everybody. That all happens right in front of the Ranger Station for the start and finish line, and it runs through the mall and through the course, and that is Friday evening as well as Saturday morning. Sider Mass is back again and we'll have that on August 16th at the snowmass mall. We'll have all of our cider vendors as well as Saturday morning. Sider Mass is back again and we'll have that on August 16th at the snow mass mall. We'll have all of our cider vendors as well as beer, wine and some other expos that are going on up there. We're really excited about Sider Mass this year, which we're actually partnering with Reed in the bottle shop and the producers of that to help keep this tradition going up at the mall. And we're really excited to have Sider Mass back. On August 29th through the 31st is the Jazz Aspen Liberty experience and as we don't necessarily program anything in town we will have a lot of people up here in the village that are attending the wonderful concerts that will be happening this year. It's a great lineup. Everybody check that out and that moves us into September which typically was a slower month but it's really starting to round itself out. We have some great activations and new events coming out, you in September, which we are starting them on the off with festival, Dell Rancho, which happens at Anderson Ranch is a Latin celebration. It's been very successful going into their third year. We're hoping for some great weather on that one. There's some great food entertainment down the range. So I ask everybody to go check that one out on that weekend. And then that is on a Saturday and then Sunday will round out the weekend with the main event, which is our nod to the ranching culture here within snow mass village. And that will be at the rodeo grounds, which will have everything from a petting zoo to horse exposed and just different elements of the ranching community coming together. And that's a free event. So family friendly bring all the kids down for the petting zoo and take some fun pictures. September 12 to the 14th we have our snowmass balloon festival and this year is a very special one is the 50th anniversary of the snowmass balloon festival, which is the longest running high mountain balloon festival in the country. We're really excited about this year. We're going to have a base launch, which is about 40 balloons, typically it's about 30 balloons. So even more balloons in the sky, we're adding to the venue. We're going to have more vendors than we've had in the past years, a bigger celebration. And I, well, everybody know that the night glow isn't bigger and better than ever. And we're really excited about that and ramping up the Berlin Festival for the 50th anniversary. That Saturday over balloon festival, we will have the Snowmass Wine Festival, which is wildly successful every year. And the Rotarians do an amazing job putting this festival together. So if you have not been to Snowmass Wine Fest, get ready to get your tickets because it sells out very fast. September 20th at the collective we'll have an ad-hatter community tea party which is a great community celebration of just art and music and culture and last year was the first year kickoff of that event. We will be bringing it back in our standards and the collective produced that so we're happy to have them part of the calendar again this year at the end of the season with that event. And for the first time ever, we are going to be hosting the first snowmass October fest, which we're really excited about. We've been developing this one and working on this one for a couple of years, so to have it come to fruition is very, very exciting for us to bring this type of event to the community to cap off the summer calendar. Golden Leaf Half Marathon will also happen during that weekend down at Down Park, and the celebration of October Fest is on Saturday and Sunday. So it'll be a full weekend celebration. And that will round out the summer and bring us into our last slide, which is the Snowmass Community Technique, which we now promote as being one of our events because it's grown substantially over the years, and really glad to help out with that one. and hope to see everybody at one of these events over the summer and go to snowgoesnomast.com for all information on our website for all the events. Great, thanks, Shane. We're going to toss it over to Virginia. Hi. How's everybody? I wanted to share a great team update to start. Our very own Rachel Falk is actually moving up in our own department. She's moving over to the digital marketing side. So we just hired for that role. And as we have learned with Rachel over the past three and a half years everything she touches she pretty much turns to gold makes it easier, better and more fun. So we are really excited to have Rachel moving into the digital space. She's going to handle our website, SEO and SEM, email marketing, digital campaigns, all of that good stuff. She'll be working really closely with Greta Brown, who's our digital marketing coordinator, and currently have her big shoes to fill. So her traditional marketing manager role, it's currently posted on tosv.com slash jobs. So if you know of anybody or you are anybody, who would be great for that role, call me. We're going to actually close the posting, I think Sunday or Monday, so please get in there. Let me know if you know of anyone. So just to move it along, I just wanted to share these results from our long love winter flash sale that we did. We partnered with SkiCo and Acra. We had a 10 day flash sale, March 10 to 20, and it was to book for long length of stay next winter season. And so we offered 30% off of lodging, seven nights or more, plus a $200 credit that people could use when they were here. And thanks to everyone who participated in that, Snowmass got 83% of the bookings that came in from that offer. So it was offered for both Aspen and Snowmass, but we're such a natural fit for that long length of stay such an appealing Resort and so we're really happy to see that booked about half a million dollars in lodging sales and SkiCo really used it heavily as a promotion with their international tour operators. So we got a lot of international bookings, primarily Brazil and Australia, which we really need to be filling, because as Julia mentioned, those are slowing down just a little bit. And then we also got quite a bit of domestic business from that as well. We promoted it direct to the travelers. It was a great way to get people thinking and dreaming of next season. So just really appreciate everyone's work on that. And the next time we do another one of these, you will certainly be hearing from us, from K2. She's the one who's typically knocking on the door saying, hey guys, will you promote this offer? So please get in on that the next time you can. I wanted to take you through a few notes about our summer campaign. It's actually been live for a few weeks now. So it kicked off on April 1st. It starts to ramp up as we get into May and June. It ramps down as we close out September. But we're always going out to extremely targeted audiences. I actually have a ton of detail behind who the audiences are. Happy to geek out with anyone who wants to talk targeting, but we have brilliant agencies and great data minds who work on this to figure out who's really the best prospective snowmass traveler. And so you'll see the list of geographies that we go after in the summer, usual suspects, right? Anyone with a non-stop flight direct to us, as well as, you know, a few places that connect through and are really strong for us in the summer, unsurprisingly, right? It's Texas, it's California, it's Florida, Illinois, and you know, a lot of those great markets that we are so strong in. One of the things that we do in our campaign is we're going out with beautiful scenic visuals, family messaging, adrenaline messaging, we're talking about getting out into nature. And this year we're expanding our event marketing campaign so that we're going to be promoting specific events even to our national audiences as a way to give them a real point on the calendar to think about coming out here. So we'll be doing that with concerts, rodeo, Americana Weekend. I'll tell you about that in a sec. Bloom Festival and October Fest. That October Fest is really a different kind of a market for us because that is that, you know, younger Traveler it's at the end of September. It's really to close out the season So we're gonna do a long-lead promotion on that Americana Weekend is what Shane was talking about where we have this group of days in July that are Spectacular it's the Wednesday night rodeo Thursday night concert Friday's the 4th of July with the Spasmatics, our first Americana concert on the 5th, and then a beautiful weekend to be in Snowmass. So we're going to be promoting that as well. So you'll see all of those start to hit the market. And hopefully we really get some strong interest because we want to see that occupancy number, not stay flat, but go up. If you want to take us through, thanks Julia. Our summer media mix is a lot, it really has a great variety. So we have airport video boards. These are inside the airports, inside the terminals where our nonstop flights come to Aspen Airport. So that's in Dallas, Houston and Austin. And we like to play a little bit with the messaging there because it is hot in Texas and it's nice and cool here. And so we really show that off quite a bit. You'll see a storyboard in just a minute. We're also on the usual suspects that have been top performers for us over the course of the last several years. That includes Expedia, Colorado.com. Props is a platform that we work with to do social spots. They're kind of content pieces, not quite influencer campaigns, but it will get us into, of course, Facebook and Instagram, but also TikTok and YouTube as well. Outside, 5,280 and Texas monthly are three print publications. We're not running print magazine ads with them anymore, but we're still getting in front of their audiences by doing digital newsletters, social promotions with them, and banner ads on their site. So those partnerships and those audiences are still valuable to us, but the print doesn't have as much value as it did before. We are always on Spotify. We have been for the last few seasons doing audio spots, which is really fun. Connected TV is where we run our TV spots. And then of course we're always going to be in the top performers anything on Meta YouTube and then display that's programmatic, chasing people around the internet. So looking at the next slide, I just wanted to share with you something new that we're doing. We are actually working with Matador Network. They're great travel content expert. They have a very cool AI kind of chatbot trip planner. If you haven't used it before, it's called Guide Geek. And you can use it really in any market, but we are teaching it how to work for Snowmass and implementing it onto our website, our social handles, and also in WhatsApp. And you can basically say to it, hey, I'm coming to Snowmass with my family in July. What are the fun things we should do? What are the free things to do? I want to go out for dinner tonight. Where should I go? It is an amazing AI chatbot, but we get to teach it and inform it and tell it where to pull data from so that it can really serve up the best possible results to our travelers. So it helps them at every stage in their kind of life cycle, whether it's the inspiration phase of trying to figure out whether or not snowmasses somewhere that they want to spend their time, or whether it's more on the information side of, I'm here right now, where should I go? So we're really excited to get this implemented. We'll be running it for about a year. It will also help us understand what the kinds of things are that our Travelers, our prospective travelers, don't know about snowmass so that we can do a better job of serving up that information more proactively moving forward. All right, on to the next. I just wanted to show you a few of our summer ad versions. These are some new versions that we have. You've seen a lot of the family and scenic and, you know, mountain biking and hiking things. This is all really that softer, really approachable family side that we wanted to make sure that we were showing it performs so well for us, particularly on social. So there's some really fun new ad versions that you will see out there. If you wanna continue us through, this is a storyboard, see, these are all little clips of video pieces that will be edited together. This is what's gonna run in the Texas airports and you can see it's all about looking kind of cool, breezy, easy, That is what we want to demonstrate to people that you can fly non-stop. Here you are and then you're just kind of out in nature with your family. So moving forward, I have, I'm going to take it from kind of the right brain to the left brain, but we have been working with a data platform called Placer and it actually tracks cell phone data, tracks people's cell phones as they're moving around within Stoomast Village and outside of it. And we wanted to use this data to kind of understand how, you know, what our visitors are doing and we're able to look back about five years and we were really happy to be able to share some insights with you. So if you want to take us in Julia, just a really quick look at visitation, I'm going to kind of put a little asterisk on these numbers. It's kind of funny how they track it. It's individual unique visitors who they can track. So don't get too married to the numbers themselves, but in the summer of the 140,000 visitors in unique visitors they tracked, 77% were from out of town and 23% were local. That is not people who necessarily are working here, but it is people who are spending time here. And so that for us is, you know, tells us a lot because in the summer, we have so many community members coming together, a lot of locals coming to snowmast to spend a day, spend a dollar, have some fun and connect. In the winter, that ratio is a little bit different. 89% are from out of town and 11% are local. Looking at the next slide, this is just sort of the seasonality that we're seeing over, you know, the last five years. This is not surprising in the summer that it starts low. We ramp up into June and July. It tapers down in August, a big bump when we get to Labor Day, and then a few more bumps on the weekends in September. So again, we're just kind of watching these trends because you know this August kind of slide down and then the inconsistency of the weekdays versus weekends in September is something that we're really trying to address with our long-term planning. If we look at the same thing for winter unsurprisingly, start slow. I mean, that starts on November 20th. Ramps up in December, kind of levels off throughout the course of the season. And then we get these bumps in on Presidents Weekend and in Spring Break season. Again, no surprises here, but what it does is it lets us look at these trend lines and make sure that we can start to do long-term planning to really fill the troughs. So as we look at summer and winter here, this is day, this is hour by hour, the average in the summer and the winter. And so what we're seeing is that people in the summer who sleep and stay in snowmass overnight tend to this spurs during the day. see there around noon and 2 p.m. where the lines go down. So people tend to disperse and leave the village and then come back in the evenings. Winter, as you can see, is much more consistent. And so, again, not a huge surprise. We see this all the time. But it's something that it gives us an opportunity now that the data supports it to address it more. How do we keep people in the village? How do we engage them when they're coming back into the village and really start to work with what the data's showing us? So we really got excited when we saw these numbers because it tells us a bit about what we understand for our event attendance. So we looked specifically at our top performers where people tend to come together. So this is our concert season. This is all of the Thursdays that people come to snowmast during this to to Fannie Hill. We can geofence Fannie Hill during the time period that the concerts are happening. So we saw almost 12,000 attendees keep in mind. This is unique visitors. So if I went to 10 concerts, I'm only counted as one person. It's just the way the data works, but it gives us a sense of who's coming. And so unsurprisingly, this actually makes us quite happy. 64% of concert attendees are from the Rohingya For fork valley. That's from Aspen to Glenwood. And we know that as a huge community gathering, and we love seeing that. 2% are regional, which is about a two to three-hour drive. Other Colorado would be other major markets in Colorado. And 28% come from outside of Colorado. So 19% of all of our total concert visitors are snowmast village residents. That makes us really happy. Just demonstrates what a strong community event it is. We have seen 80% growth in attendance at the concert since 2018. That is cool. That also, you know, if you guys have seen our lineup for this summer, it's incredible. I expect that we would see even more growth there. In terms of the rodeo, we saw in 2024, 18,000 unique attendees were tracked. 35% of those were from Aspen to Glenwood. We get a little uptick in the regional attendees that's probably heavily influenced by the competitors and their supporters. 54% of rodeo attendees were from outside of Colorado. So again, not surprising, but it does demonstrate that people are coming to Snowmass visitors to the valley are coming to Snowmass because they want to check that out. It's a really cool and unique experience that we're really putting our best foot forward for our visitors. I should say when they are from somewhere, it means that their device, their cell phone is registered or bills to a home location and that's how we're determining where they're from. So 15% of our attendees are from Snowmass village Village on that one. So for Bluen Festival, again, this number is lower in terms of the unique attendees tracked, relative to how many people are physically there on site, because a lot of people come back to where three days to Bluen Festival. But 15, 57% of attendees to the Bluen Festival are from the Roaring Fork Valley. 14% are regional. That says a lot that people want to come in to see it for the day or for the weekend. 13% from other locations in Colorado and 15% from outside of Colorado. So that is, it's a really strong drive market event is what that tells me. And then we also looked for the winter at New Year's Eve. And so we really, we again just did a geofence around the village during the hours that New Year's Eve festivities were going on to get a sense in the winter of what that looks like. And 16% of people in the village on New Year's Eve were from the Roaring Pork Valley, 78% were from outside of Colorado, so visitors to the Valley. Again, all these numbers for us just really support what we have understood for the most part about our events, about what is appealing to visitors and what the things are that we might have the opportunity to start to promote more and bring more people in. Great, great. There you go. Thanks, Virginia. Pass it over to Bill. Hey, good morning, everyone. How's it going? Brief update on what's happening with the airport. And in case you haven't seen the Aspen Times yet this morning, I was not expecting my remarks yesterday at the airport advisory board meeting to make front page headlines, but we had a tremendous month of March. First time ever that the Aspen Airport experienced over 100,000 passengers total. That's inbound and outbound combined. And that was about 9% ahead of the prior record March the year before. So what that really means when you look at occupancies being basically flat year over year for the month of March clearly we're gaining share and reducing leakage of passengers traveling in and out of other airports. I would submit that that's probably a combination of both more locals flying outbound as anybody who's tried to park at the Aspen Airport from probably a test. We've got a lot more people flying out, as well as more people flying in as opposed to flying into Denver and driving or Eagle and Grand Junction. And it's pretty clear that with more flights and more traffic pricing, it's and also improved reliability more people are flying to the Aspen Airport. If we can move to the next slide, please, this is just a snapshot of what the winter service looks like overall, which I think you're all familiar with. And I know we're kind of focusing on summer at this point in time. So basically the summer map looks exactly the same except you can erase Phoenix. American does not fly Phoenix in the summer months. Then that we're seeing all the same roots. And the other thing I might point out is the fact that without phoenix, the one thing that phoenix does do really well in the winter because we have a fair amount of travel in both directions. Not only do we have strong inbound demand from phoenix, but there are a lot of locals who like to go to phoenix in the winter. Not a lot of people like to go to Phoenix in the summer. And they have tried Phoenix Astroservice in the summer in the past. And the demand is just too lot-sided to keep it going. But other than that, we've got Delta flying year round. We've got United and American also all flying year round. American from DFW only. And United kind of staggers, which nonstop routes they fly year round. Of course, they always fly Denver when the airport is open and I'll speak to the airport closure here coming up soon. And right now they're also flying Chicago and LA while in terms of in the fall they'll fly Houston and LA from from Aspen. But now the big news is we also have new announcement that in case you haven't heard Americans are starting flying Charlotte next year. So if we flip to the next map that I saw you had there for just a second this is what the Charlotte root structure looks like for American Airlines it's gonna begin on December 19th and Charlotte is actually American's second largest hub behind DFW and it's also the home to a lot of skiers and a lot of advantage players. It's going to be now the new, not longest non-stop route out of the Aspen airport at just over 1,450 miles. And the reason they are doing this flight, I had to make this promise to the airport advisory board yesterday, I did not personally pursue this route, although we've always talked about Charlotte being the nearest hub that American doesn't already serve. But they've looked at the data that Delta Airlines has out of their Atlanta route and figuring that their hub serves a lot of the same markets as only 150 miles beyond Atlanta. If Delta could do it from Atlanta, then certainly Americans should figure out how to make a work from Charlotte. What I also want to point out are all these secondary markets along the East Coast. Virginia, you were talking about targeting some in-state New York, you know, outside of New York City. Look at all those other smaller markets that feed through Charlotte, like Buffalo Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany. I also want to point out some unique markets in Virginia, Roanoke, Lynchbridge, and Charlottesville. There lot of unique markets that will flow through the Charlotte Hook and the timing of the flight is perfect. It's not shot at the schedule down below. It's morning departure at 905 that will turn around midday. It's not really time to make Caribbean or international connections, although it will do return connections to the handful of markets they play in Europe, but it's really, really well timed for skier traffic and domestic connections. And I might also add that the only other two markets that have ski markets that have non-stop service for Charlotte for next winter are Denver and Salt Lake City. We can go to the next slide. I'll talk a little bit about the Embraer E175, which is a substantial aircraft upgrade that a lot of us have been enjoying from the United. The inaugural flight was in early December and now there have been more than 1,000 E-175 riles and departures that Aspen sits. They have now a sub fleet of 10 uniquely modified 175s that are now in service for our brand new deliveries from a braille that started in late December and And six are upgraded aircraft that actually have new engines and upgraded avionics. So you can tell the difference between the two because the six older aircraft are in the old colors, but they also have brand new interiors, new windows, new carpet, new bins. It's almost like being on a brand new aircraft other than the fact that it's got the old paint scheme and that will, those will be changed over time. But that aircraft is actually performing better than expected at ASPIT. And I'm told that much better than EGLE and when the airport reopens from the closure at June 1, all United Express flights will be flown at the Blend 75 and we're gonna say goodbye to the last CRJ 700 in United Colors on May 4th here, just a couple of weeks away. That'll be the last CRJ 700 flying from United, and that'll be flight from Aspenback to Chicago. And then finally, I just wanna talk about the airport closures. This actually, we got advancing some automation where I apologize for not remuting that. So if you can hit Arrow Forward a couple of times that it'll have some of the other information that I wanted to include on here. There we go. We got spring closure from May 5th at 9 AM until June 1st at 7 PM. That's now confirmed. I were expecting a similar closure in 2026. The dates are not yet confirmed, but we'll let you know as soon as they are. And of course, we are targeting 2027 for the runway replacement, which we're anticipating a full closure of the airport for up to eight months. So with that said, you know, we're also working on alternatives. You've got additional flights and upgraded flights at both Eagle and Grand Junction. In fact, I will add that United has upgraded two of their three daily Eagle flights from what were you 175 to main to mainline aircraft, Boeing 737X8's during the month of May because of the aspirin enclosure. I think I have a couple of more bullets here if we can advance further and talking about some other alternatives. We're trying to, oh, one-way rental car availability. All the rental car companies will remain open at the aspirin airport and most of them are offer pretty reasonable one-way car rentals. So if you're planning on traveling during the airport closure and you can always look at during a multi-city trip and flying back into Aspen after the airport reopens or flying out before it closes and doing a one-way car to Eagle or Grand Junction or even Denver. And long-term we're also talking about some other innovative long term ground transportation alternatives to and from Denver, stay tuned on what that's going to look like but we know we're going to have some little needs for that here particularly when the airport closes for full summer season in 2027. So unless there are any questions that kind of concludes my remarks for today. Great thanks so much Bill. Are there any questions for Bill? Otherwise, I do apologize for the audio issues this morning that was all me. My Wi-Fi was being moody. So I would just go back. I think I got through my tourism outlook. I did skip over group sales and I was just gonna present a couple of highlights for Drew who is traveling, representing Snowmass. There are a lot of reporting, a lot of data in the rap book, which will send out. I did see Deb Kelly your note there about making it download. I think we can just send it out to everybody on the group following this talk, because there is a lot of information in there. But just a quick update for group sales production. 2024 did wrap to be a really promising year. We finished with the second biggest year of total production on record since recording these numbers in 2017. So it was great. We also finished with really good business going into future years, not only 2025, but you'll see there in 2026 and 2027, we had strong numbers on the books with over 9,000 room nights on the books for 26 and over 6,000 on the books for 2027. So we were pacing really strong going into 2025, which is great news to start off the year like that. Overall, last year we finished at just over 33,000 room nights, which was up 11,000 room nights from the year prior in 2023. Going into 2025, we have seen similar, I'd say year-over-year production in Q1, the team's been doing a great job. They've just about met their quarterly goal. The actuals for the first quarter actually have come in substantially stronger than 2024, particularly due to ski groups. We've seen more than 4,000 room nights over actual bookings in 2024. Lead volume was strong in Q1, but Drew and the team are reporting other than ski groups, a little bit of a the dip in lead volume at the end of Q1 but Drew and the team are reporting other than ski groups a little bit of a dip in lead volume at the end of Q1 with various market segments including of course government with the government funding and corporate and we'll be focusing more strongly on association business which seems to remain strong and really focusing on that for the summer and for future business. So again, there's lots of reporting in the wrap up, but that's kind of key highlights for 2025 and a wrap up of 24. That really concludes, I think our tourism talk we tried to go quick and we actually have a little bit of time left. So if there's any questions or if anybody has any input, please jump in or put anything in the chat. If not, as I said, we can send out the wrap book to everybody to kind of look through more more detail if you'd like. Does anybody have anything they want to add or any questions? All right. Well, thank you everybody for joining us as we head into off season we will be in touch with the next tourism talk which will likely focus on our destination management transitional plan which currently is in revision right now based on all the feedback we've gotten and we did get great feedback from the tourism board town town council and many of our stakeholders. And we plan to come back this spring with a better revised plan. And we'll again present that for feedback and then final approval with the tourism board and town council. Hopefully before we get rolling into summer, we're excited to get rolling for summer all these great events and all these great initiatives. Reach out if you need anything or if you have any questions. And thank you again so much for joining us this morning and hope you all enjoy your off season if we don't see you. Thanks everyone. you