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      "text": "Most recently, on the Company’s Q4 FY2025 earnings call, Tripadvisor announced a formal evaluation of strategic alternatives for TheFork. We are left confused as to what Tripadvisor has been doing on this front over the last several months, as management addressed this topic on the Q3 FY2025 earnings call, stating that they “consistently evaluate all options to unlock value in all of our assets, and that includes TheFork”, and that “nothing is off the table”. If that was truly the case, why does it take three additional months to simply announce a formal exploration of strategic alternatives for a single business unit when shareholders have been waiting for decisive action for years? In fact, months ago, we specifically expressed our view to management and the Board that selling TheFork was an obvious decision, as it is non-core and based on our belief that there were numerous parties interested in potentially acquiring the business. Once again, this action is too little, too late, and represents the same type of incrementalism that has plagued the Company’s decision making for years. How can the Board allow this to happen? How is this possible?",
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      "text": "Moreover, despite Liberty TripAdvisor being bought out at a premium and at a price far higher than the current stock price, its representatives remain on the Board, where Mr. Maffei continues to serve as Chairman of the Board. How is this possible?",
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      "text": "In fact, despite announcing its transition away from being a controlled company more than 1 year ago, Tripadvisor has made only minimal changes to its Board. How is this possible?",
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      "text": "Over the past 12-24 months, Tripadvisor has witnessed the rapid advancement of Generative AI technologies. Trip planning has become a popular LLM use case, and Tripadvisor is actually one of the most cited websites by LLMs. However, despite the risk of AI disintermediation increasing daily, Tripadvisor has been massively late and incredibly slow to develop and launch a compelling AI-enabled version of Tripadvisor. In a period of such rapid innovation and change, and with such an advantaged position, Tripadvisor appears to be squandering its lead. Once again, shareholders are left to ask, how is this possible?",
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      "text": "As such, during the Company’s upcoming window for shareholders to submit director nominations with respect to the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders, we intend to nominate a highly-qualified slate of directors representing a majority of the Board. We look forward to sharing more details with the Company and our fellow shareholders in the coming weeks.",
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