TUI
TUI Group, one of the world’s largest integrated travel and hospitality businesses, is rapidly expanding its hotel portfolio, with ambitions to grow from over 430 to 600 properties. Our news coverage tracks key developments across its brands — including TUI Blue, TUI Magic Life, and Robinson — as well as new market entries, concept innovations, and financial results. We report on how TUI’s activity shapes international tourism and informs investment trends relevant to hotel industry professionals.
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Sep- 2024 -19 SeptemberFeatures
How Chicostay Boosts Hotel Revenue: Interview with Owner Tony Barker
In the fast-evolving world of hospitality, Chicostay is making waves by addressing a fundamental issue: the hotel industry has remained surprisingly resistant to the changes technology has brought to so many other sectors. Tony Barker, the new owner behind Chicostay, aims to tackle this inertia head-on, using technology to streamline…
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Aug- 2022 -11 AugustEconomy
Tui suffers Q3 loss despite positive hotel performance
Tui has revealed underlying losses before tax of €27m (£22.8m) for the third quarter of the year as flight cancellations dented its earnings. However, this still marked an improvement compared with the prior year when it recorded a loss of €669.8m (£566.8m). The group also saw revenues for Q3 2022…
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Jun- 2021 -22 JuneCoronavirus
International travel restrictions to cost UK £639m a day, warns WTTC
An open letter to Boris Johnson from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has warned of £639m daily UK losses should international travel remain off limits in July. The global tourism body told the prime minister that the UK faces up to £19.8bn worth of losses if international travel…
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May- 2021 -28 MayHotel Brands
Riu acquires Tui’s Riu Hotels & Resorts stake for £576m
Riu Group, a Spanish hotel chain, has announced the acquisition of Tui’s 49% stake in the Riu Hotels and Resorts brand for a sum of €670m (£576m). Riu will now control the entire 100% stake in the brand, which stretches across 19 hotel properties in four different continents, as well…
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Oct- 2020 -8 OctoberAppointments
TUI announces new CFO
Holiday operator TUI has announced Sebastian Ebel as its new chief financial officer. Ebel, who takes up the post on 1 January 2021, is an experienced TUI manager, according to a statement. Dr Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the supervisory board of TUI, agreed to the change on Tuesday along with…
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May- 2020 -13 MayCoronavirus
TUI introduces 10-point post-lockdown plan for hotels
TUI has introduced a 10-point plan with a set of measures and standards in order to guide its hotel reopenings as lockdown measures begin to ease. The travel agency said these new measures will “enable guests to enjoy their holidays in the knowledge that the highest hygiene standards in relation…
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Feb- 2020 -28 FebruaryBusiness Bites
Coronavirus sends ripples through markets, governments, companies and the public
Apologies for the repetition, but the new coronavirus is causing such a serious global reaction today it would be silly to focus on other things, so here are four key stories about what looks to be developing into a full blown international crisis. The FTSE 100 has lost nearly £200…
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Sep- 2019 -9 SeptemberAdvice
The blockchain challenge: how should hotels respond?
As with most innovations, there is a “hot mess” phase while bugs get worked out, infrastructure and protocols are developed – look at the crash of the dot-com boom. But does that mean you should throw the baby out with the bathwater? Imagine if people had stopped using the internet…
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May- 2019 -17 MayAdvice
The rise of monster ‘cardboard cookie cutter’ hotels
The landscape in the western world is dotted with so many bland, cheaply built, ‘cardboard’ big brand hotels that many areas are reaching saturation point. (Pun intended on soggy cardboard) There are literally hundreds of synonyms for ‘cookie cutter’ and all of them would be suitable to the way I…
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7 MayHotel Brands
TUI Group to expand high-margin hotel business
The TUI Group has announced it is further expanding its position as a leisure hotelier, strengthening the group’s high-margin hotel segment. In the next few weeks, the group revealed it is set to open more than 20 new hotels across eleven countries in Europe, Africa and Asia with “strong growth”…
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