TUI expands David Burling’s role
TUI executive board member David Burling will manage all the group’s tour operators worldwide following an internal re-organisation.
All the operators will be pooled together under Markets & Airlines and managed by Burling.
Alongside his existing responsibilities for Northern Region (UK & Ireland, Nordics, Canada and Russia), Burling additionally assume will responsibility for Central Region (TUI Deutschland, Austria, Switzerland and Poland).
TUI said the change would reinforce co-operation between the national organisations. "The new organisational structure follows the successful transformation of our Group and our business segments", said CEO Fritz Joussen."We are now further developing our management structure, forming the basis for TUI to become even more digital, global and agile and deliver continued growth in future."
A second reporting line to Markets & Airlines will be created for Western Region (France, Belgium, the Netherlands), which is part of Joussen’s responsibilities.
The goal is to leverage more synergies in distribution, marketing and market innovation and increase the pace of transferring successful models from a local to a global level to benefit the subsidiaries, said the Group.
Sebastian Ebel will assume responsibility for the Group’s products and holiday experiences, clustered in Hotels & Resorts, Cruises & Destination Experiences. Ebel will be in charge of the the hotel brands TUI Blue, RIU, Robinson, TUI Magic Life, TUI Sensimar, TUI Sensatori and TUI Family Life.
He will also be responsible for TUI Tours, while TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises will remain part of his responsibilities.
Kenton Jarvis will assume the role of CEO Aviation and report to Burling as member of the Group Executive Committee. He will additionally become business improvement director markets, focusing on leveraging and implementing the efficiency potential of the national organisations.
Peter Kruger, previously group director investor relations and M&A, will additionally assume responsibility for strategy. In that role, he will also join the Group Executive Committee.
Henrik Homann, previously in charge of Strategy and Airlines in the Group Executive Committee, will leave TUI after the completion of the reorganisation, which he has helped prepare over the past few months.
Joussen said: "I very much regret the decision taken by Henrik Homann and sincerely thank him for his valuable contribution to the development of our Group in many different roles he held over more than two decades, in particular as finance and HR director at TUI Deutschland and in his last role as the Group’s strategy and aviation director. I wish Henrik Homann all the best for the future."
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