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Overview and Basis of Presentation (Policies) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Nature of Business | Nature of Business We are an international experiential services company with operations principally in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. We are committed to providing unforgettable experiences to our clients and guests. We operate through three reportable business segments: GES U.S., GES International (collectively, “GES”), and Pursuit. GES GES is a global, full-service provider for live events. GES’ clients include event organizers and corporate brand marketers. Event organizers schedule and run the event from start to finish. Corporate brand marketers include exhibitors and domestic and international corporations that want to promote their brands, services and innovations, feature new products, and build business relationships. GES serves corporate brand marketers when they exhibit at shows and when GES is engaged to manage their global exhibit program or produce their proprietary corporate events. Services and Products Offered GES offers a full suite of services and products for event organizers and corporate brand marketers through three main lines of business:
| • | Core Services. GES provides official contracting services and products, including the design and production of experiences to material handling, rigging, electrical, and other on-site services.
| • | Audio-Visual. GES offers a variety of high-impact multi-media services and technology, including video and lighting production, digital studio services, entertainment services and talent coordination, projection mapping, and computer rental and support.
| • | Event Technology. GES offers a comprehensive range of event technology services, including event accommodation solutions, registration and data analytics, and event management tools.
Markets Served GES provides the above services and products across four live event markets: Exhibitions, Conferences, Corporate Events, and Consumer Events (collectively, “Live Events”).
| • | Exhibitions facilitate business-to-business and business-to-consumer sales and marketing.
| • | Conferences facilitate attendee education and may also include an expo or trade show to further facilitate attendee education and to facilitate business-to-business and business-to-consumer sales and marketing.
| • | Corporate events facilitate attendee education of the sponsoring company’s products or product ecosystem.
| • | Consumer events entertain, educate, or create an experience, typically around a specific genre.
Pursuit Pursuit is a collection of iconic natural and cultural destination travel experiences that enjoy perennial demand. Pursuit offers guests distinctive and world renowned experiences through its collection of unique hotels, lodges, recreational attractions, and transportation services. Services and Products Offered Pursuit is comprised of four lines of business: Hospitality, including food and beverage services and retail operations; Attractions, including food and beverage services and retail operations; Transportation, and Travel Planning. Services offered to these lines of business (or a subset of these) include accommodations, admissions, transportation, and travel planning. Products offered include food and beverage and retail. Markets Served Pursuit provides the above services and products across the following geographic markets:
| • | Banff Jasper Collection. The Banff Jasper Collection is a leading travel and tourism provider in the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada with two lodging properties in Banff National Park, one lodging property in Jasper National Park, five world-class recreational attractions, food and beverage services, retail operations, sightseeing and transportation services.
| • | Alaska Collection. The Alaska Collection is a leading travel and tourism provider in Alaska with two lodging properties and a sightseeing excursion in Denali National Park and Preserve, a lodge in Talkeetna, Alaska’s top-rated wildlife and glacier cruise, and two lodging properties located near Kenai Fjords National Park. The Alaska Collection also provides food and beverage services and retail operations.
| • | Glacier Park Collection. The Glacier Park Collection is an operator of seven lodging properties, 12 retail shops, and 11 dining outlets in and around Glacier National Park in Montana, and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, with a leading share of rooms in that market.
| • | FlyOver.
| o | FlyOver Canada, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a recreational attraction that provides a virtual flight ride experience that combines motion seating, spectacular media, and visual effects including wind, scents, and mist to give the unforgettable experience of flying across Canada.
| o | FlyOver Iceland is a recreational attraction under construction in Reykjavik, Iceland that will provide a virtual flight ride experience over some of Iceland’s most spectacular scenery and natural wonders with the same effects as FlyOver Canada. The new attraction is expected to open in 2019.
Basis of Presentation | Basis of Presentation Viad’s accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X for interim financial information. Accordingly, these financial statements do not include all of the information required by GAAP or SEC rules and regulations for complete financial statements. These financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of the results for the full year. We have recast certain prior period amounts to conform to the current period presentation due to the adoption of new accounting standards. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the SEC on February 28, 2018 (“2017 Form 10-K”). The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Viad and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany account balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements | Impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements The following table provides a brief description of recent accounting pronouncements:
Standard |  | Description |  | Date of adoption |  | Effect on the financial statements
Standards Not Yet Adopted
ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) |  | The amendment requires lessees to recognize on their balance sheet a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for leases with lease terms greater than one year. The amendment requires additional disclosures about leasing arrangements, and requires a modified retrospective approach to adoption. Early adoption is permitted. |  | January 1, 2019 |  | We are currently evaluating the potential impact the adoption of this new guidance will have on our financial position or results of operations including analyzing our existing operating leases. Based on our current assessment, the adoption of this standard will have a material impact on our Consolidated Balance Sheets as we will be required to record right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for our leases. Our Consolidated Statement of Operations is not expected to be materially impacted. We expect the most significant impact will relate to facility and equipment leases, which are currently recorded as operating leases. We are continuing our assessment, which may identify other impacts. We will adopt the standard on January 1, 2019.
ASU 2018-02, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income |  | The amendment addresses the effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) on items within accumulated other comprehensive income (“AOCI”). Under current GAAP, the effects of changes in tax rates and laws on deferred tax balances are recorded as a component of income tax expense in the period in which the law was enacted. When deferred tax balances related to items originally recorded in AOCI are adjusted, certain tax effects become stranded in AOCI. This amendment allows a reclassification from AOCI to retained earnings for stranded tax effects. Early adoption is permitted. |  | January 1, 2019 |  | We are currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this new guidance on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. Refer to Note 16 – Income Taxes for additional information.
Standard |  | Description |  | Date of adoption |  | Effect on the financial statements
Standards Recently Adopted
ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) |  | The standard established a new recognition model that requires revenue to be recognized in a manner to depict the transfer of goods or services to a customer at an amount that reflects the consideration expected to be received in exchange for those goods or services. |  | January 1, 2018 |  | We adopted ASU 2014-09 and its related amendments (collectively, “Topic 606”) on January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective transition method. The cumulative effect of initially applying the new standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings was determined to be immaterial (less than $0.2 million) and, therefore, no adjustment was made. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. The impact primarily related to the deferral of certain commissions which were previously expensed as incurred but are now capitalized and amortized over the period of contract performance, and the deferral of certain costs incurred in connection with trade shows which were previously expensed as incurred but are now capitalized and expensed upon the completion of the show. The new guidance resulted in expanded disclosures and processes to identify performance obligations. Refer to Note 2 – Revenue and Related Contract Costs and Contract Liabilities for additional transition disclosures.
ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments–Overall: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities |  | The amendment includes a requirement for equity investments (except those accounted for under the equity method of accounting or those that result in consolidation of the investee) to be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income. |  | January 1, 2018 |  | We adopted this guidance prospectively in the first quarter of 2018 and recorded a cumulative-effect adjustment of $0.6 million to beginning retained earnings.
ASU 2017-04, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350) - Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment |  | The amendment eliminates the requirement to estimate the implied fair value of goodwill if it is determined that the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value. Goodwill impairment will now be recognized by the amount by which a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, not to exceed the carrying amount of goodwill. The amendment should be applied prospectively and is effective for annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. |  | January 1, 2018 |  | We early adopted this new guidance on January 1, 2018 on a prospective basis. As a result, we expect the adoption to reduce the complexity surrounding the analysis of goodwill impairment during our annual goodwill impairment tests as of October 31, 2018, or if an event occurs or circumstances change that would more-likely-than-not reduce the fair value of a reporting unit below its carrying value.
ASU 2017-07, Compensation - Retirement Benefits (Topic 715) - Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost |  | The amendment requires an employer to disaggregate the service cost components from the other components of net benefit cost. The service cost components are required to be presented in operating income and the other components of net benefit cost are required to be presented outside of operating income. |  | January 1, 2018 |  | We adopted this new standard retrospectively. As a result, we recorded the nonservice cost component of net periodic benefit cost within other expense and $0.5 million was reclassified from operating expenses to other expense for the three months ended March 31, 2017, to conform to current period presentation. See below for additional details on the impact of this adoption on our results of operations.
ASU 2018-05, Income Taxes (Topic 740)—Amendments to SEC paragraphs pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 |  | This amends ASC 740 to incorporate the requirements of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118, which provides guidance on accounting for the tax effects of the Tax Act for SEC registrants who do not have the necessary information available, prepared, or analyzed in reasonable detail to complete the accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act. |  | Upon issuance |  | We recognized the provisional tax impacts of the Tax Act in the fourth quarter of 2017. During the first quarter of 2018, we did not receive any additional information regarding these provisional calculations. As a result, we continue to anticipate finalizing our analysis in connection with the completion of our tax return for 2017 to be filed in 2018. Refer to Note 16 – Income Taxes for additional information.
Prior to January 1, 2018, we presented revenue in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations in three separate line items as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |
(in thousands) |  | March 31, 2017 |
Revenue: |  |  |  |
Exhibition and event services |  | $ | 275,948 |
Exhibits and environments |  |  | 41,923 |
Pursuit services |  |  | 7,936 |
Total revenue |  | $ | 325,807 |
In connection with the adoption of Topic 606, we changed the presentation of revenue in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and now present total services revenue and total products revenue. As a result, we changed the prior reporting period to conform to the current period presentation as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |
(in thousands) |  | March 31, 2017 |
Revenue: |  |  |  |
Services |  | $ | 290,643 |
Products |  |  | 35,164 |
Total revenue |  | $ | 325,807 |
As a result of the change in presentation of revenue in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, we also made the following conforming changes to the presentation of cost of services and cost of products. The following table also summarizes the impact of adopting ASU 2017-07 on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, 2017 |
(in thousands) |  | As Previously Reported |  |  | Reclassifications to Conform with Revenue Presentation |  |  | ASU 2017-07 |  |  | As Newly Reported |
Cost of services |  | $ | 273,609 |  |  | $ | 7,412 |  |  | $ | (383 | ) |  | $ | 280,638 |
Cost of products |  | $ | 39,514 |  |  | $ | (7,412 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 32,102 |
Corporate activities |  | $ | 2,610 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (69 | ) |  | $ | 2,541 |
Other expense |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 452 |  |  | $ | 452 |
Use of Estimates | Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reported period. Estimates and assumptions are used in accounting for, among other things, the fair value of our reporting units used to perform annual impairment testing of recorded goodwill; allowances for uncollectible accounts receivable; provisions for income taxes, including uncertain tax positions; valuation allowances related to deferred tax assets; liabilities for losses related to self-insured liability claims; liabilities for losses related to environmental remediation obligations; sublease income associated with restructuring liabilities; assumptions used to measure pension and postretirement benefit costs and obligations; assumptions used to determine share-based compensation costs under the fair value method; assumptions in the redemption value of redeemable noncontrolling interests; and allocation of purchase price of acquired businesses. Actual results could differ from these and other estimates.
Revenue Recognition | Revenue Recognition Beginning January 1, 2018, revenue is measured based on a specified amount of consideration in a contract with a customer, net of commissions paid to customers and amounts collected on behalf of third parties. We recognize revenue when a performance obligation is satisfied by transferring control of a product or service to a customer. GES’ service revenue is primarily derived through its comprehensive range of services to event organizers and corporate brand marketers including Core Services, Audio-Visual, and Event Technology. GES’ service revenue is recognized when we have a right to invoice, net of commissions paid to customers, at the close of the event. GES’ product revenue is derived from the build of exhibits and environments and graphics. GES’ product revenue from the build of exhibits is recognized upon delivery of the product while graphics is recognized at the close of the event when we have the right to invoice. GES’ service revenue and graphics product revenue are recognized over time as they are considered part of a single performance obligation satisfied over time. GES’ product revenue from the build of exhibits is recognized at a point in time. Pursuit’s service revenue is derived through its accommodations, admissions, transportation, and travel planning services. Pursuit’s product revenue is derived through food and beverage and retail sales. Pursuit’s revenue is recognized at the time services are performed or upon delivery of the product. Pursuit’s service revenue is recognized over time as the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits. Pursuit’s product revenue is recognized at a point in time. The following table summarizes the impact of adopting Topic 606 on our unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2018:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, 2018 |
(in thousands) |  | Balances without Adoption of Topic 606 |  |  | Effect of Change |  |  | As Reported |
Revenue: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
GES services |  | $ | 237,793 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 237,793 |
GES products |  | $ | 29,913 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 29,913 |
Pursuit services |  | $ | 7,755 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 7,755 |
Pursuit products |  | $ | 1,967 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 1,967 |
Costs and expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Costs of services |  | $ | 258,142 |  |  | $ | (847 | ) |  | $ | 257,295 |
Costs of products |  | $ | 31,122 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 31,122 |
Income tax benefit |  | $ | (4,852 | ) |  | $ | 214 |  |  | $ | (4,638 | )
Net loss |  | $ | (10,468 | ) |  | $ | (633 | ) |  | $ | (9,835 | )
Noncontrolling Interests | Noncontrolling Interests Non-redeemable noncontrolling interest represents the portion of equity in a subsidiary that is not attributable, directly or indirectly, to us. Our non-redeemable noncontrolling interest relates to the 20% equity ownership interest that we do not own in Glacier Park, Inc. We report non-redeemable noncontrolling interest within stockholders’ equity in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The amount of consolidated net income attributable to Viad and the non-redeemable noncontrolling interest is presented in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Noncontrolling interests with redemption features that are not solely within our control are considered redeemable noncontrolling interests. The Esja Attractions ehf. (“Esja”) purchase agreement contains a put option that gives the minority Esja shareholders the right to sell (or “put”) their Esja shares to us based on a calculated formula within a predefined term. This redeemable noncontrolling interest is considered temporary equity and we report it between liabilities and stockholders’ equity in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The amount of the net income or loss attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests is recorded in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and the accretion of the redemption value is recorded as an adjustment to retained earnings and is included in our earnings (loss) per share. Refer to Note 20 – Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest for additional information.
Insurance Recoveries | Insurance Recoveries Receipts from insurance up to the amount of the recognized losses are considered recoveries and are accounted for when they are probable of receipt. Anticipated proceeds in excess of the recognized loss are considered a gain contingency. A contingency gain for anticipated insurance proceeds in excess of losses already recognized is not recognized until all contingencies relating to the insurance claim have been resolved. Insurance proceeds allocated to business interruption gains are reported as cash flows from operating activities, and proceeds allocated to impairment recoveries are reported as cash flows from investing activities. Insurance proceeds used for capitalizable costs are classified as cash flows from investing activities, and proceeds used for non-capitalizable costs are classified as operating activities.

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