Operator
Good day, and welcome to the Xenia Hotels & Resorts second-quarter 2021 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Danielle Burgoon, vice president of finance. Please go ahead.
Danielle Burgoon --
Vice President of Finance
Thank you, Andrew. Good afternoon, and welcome to Xenia Hotels & Resorts second-quarter 2021 earnings call and webcast. I'm here with Marcel Verbaas, our chairman and chief executive officer; Barry Bloom, our president and chief operating officer; and Atish Shah, our executive vice president and chief financial officer. Marcel will begin with a discussion of our quarterly performance, industry fundamentals, and the positioning of our portfolio.