Booking Holdings
Q3 2022 Earnings Call
Nov 02, 2022, 4:30 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Welcome to Booking Holdings' third quarter 2022 conference call. Booking Holdings would like to remind everyone that this call may contain forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from those expressed, implied, or forecasted in such forward-looking statements.
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And now, I'd like to introduce Booking Holdings' speaker for this afternoon, Glenn Fogel and David Goulden. Please go ahead, gentlemen.
Glenn Fogel -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, and welcome to Booking Holdings' third quarter conference call. I'm joined this afternoon by our CFO, David Gould. I am encouraged by the strong results we are reporting today and by the record level of travel during our peak summer season. In the third quarter, our customers booked 240 million room nights, a little under a quarter of a billion results, which was 8% higher than in Q3 2019.
We saw an improvement in room night growth during the third quarter from 4% growth in July to 10% growth in both August and September relative to the comparable months in 2019. We note that, sadly, the war in Ukraine continues. And as you know, we suspended our operations in Russia and Belarus routes shortly after the war began. If we exclude these suspended areas, as well as Ukraine, our room night growth for the quarter would have been 11%.