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Can Blockchain technology liberate travel inventory?

By Viewpoints | August 25, 2017

This is a viewpoint by Trond Vidar Bjorøy, head of product development and implementation, Nordics for ATPI. The views expressed are the views and opinions of the author and do not reflect or represen Read More

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TUI's Blockchain initiative blips IBM's radar

By Martin Cowen | August 23, 2017

Fritz Joussen, CEO of European travel giant TUI, is convinced that Blockchain technology will dominate B2B within five to ten years, while the consumer-facing implications are further down the line bu Read More

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TUI reduces the seasonal swing

By Martin Cowen | August 10, 2017

TUI Group continues to improve its key financial and operational metrics and has returned its first-ever positive nine-month EBITA. Its year runs from October to September and for the first nine mo Read More

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TUI talks innovation as it partners with Plug and Play

By Linda Fox | July 10, 2017

It has been trendy for travel companies to create startup accelerators - think Marriott, British Airways-parent IAG and Travelport. A seemingly less well-trod route is partnering with an external e Read More

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Thomas Cook Group takes different route to rival TUI

By Martin Cowen | May 18, 2017

Thomas Cook's first-half results talk about its airline operations as a separate business unit, and claims that by carrying 17 million passengers a year it is one of Europe's leading leisure airlines. Read More

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TUI Group's online business continues to mature, Germany catching up

By Martin Cowen | May 15, 2017

TUI Group's six-month earnings to the end of March show an increase in not only the proportion of bookings taken online but also its number of customers. During the six months to end-March the busi Read More

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TUI scales its IT to drive global plans

By Martin Cowen | February 15, 2017

European travel giant TUI has announced plans for a digitally led expansion into new source markets, including China, with little indication that these plans involve opening TUI-branded retail outlets Read More

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KKR buys Travelopia for £325 million and targets Chinese outbound

By Martin Cowen | February 14, 2017

European travel group TUI has sold off a batch of specialist businesses for £325 million to KKR, with the new owner immediately looking to China as a source market. The Travelopia unit comprises 53 Read More

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TUI taps 600 in-house social media feeds for content hub

By Martin Cowen | January 19, 2017

European travel giant TUI is launching www.travel.me, a portal which aggregates content from 600 social media accounts across the group. The move is being positioned as part of its oneBrand strateg Read More

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Offline-to-online still to happen for TUI Germany

By Martin Cowen | December 8, 2016

European travel giant TUI Group continues to increase the proportion of holiday bookings made online in all its major markets other than Germany. In the year to end-Sept16, 43% of bookings across t Read More

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Thomas Cook Airlines gets cute with cats in latest digital-only campaign

By Martin Cowen | May 25, 2016

"Fluffy kittens" is a derisory phrase used by the high and mighty in their ivory towers who want to dismiss the internet as the home of the vacuous and trivial. But Thomas Cook Airlines hopes to ex Read More

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Hotelbeds sold for Euro 1.2 billion to Cinven and CPPIB

By Martin Cowen | April 27, 2016

After months of speculation, TUI Group has finally sold its Hotelbeds business, netting Euro 1.165 billion ($1.3 billion) in the process. The buyers are named as Cinven and Canada Pension Plan Inve Read More

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Cox & Kings sells LateRooms for £20m

By Martin Cowen | April 5, 2016

Indian-based tour operator Cox and Kings (C&K) has sold LateRooms.com for £20 million, less than six months after buying it from TUI Group for only £8.5m. TUI Group declined to specify how much Read More

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Hotelbeds sale on track says TUI, three times in one statement

By Martin Cowen | April 4, 2016

TUI Group's pre-close update issued last week talks up the total transaction volume (TTV) and room night growth for Hotelbeds, and says "the disposal process (for the business) is on track". The st Read More

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TUI looks to one brand future, puts LateRooms up for sale

By Linda Fox | May 14, 2015

A busy day for TUI Group yesterday as it unveiled half-year results as well as setting out its strategy for growth going forward for investors. The company, formed late last year by the merger of T Read More

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