TUI managing director to leave after 20 years
TUI managing director UK and Ireland Nick Longman is to leave the business after 20 years to ‘pursue new business challenges’.
In a statement, TUI said: "Under Longman’s leadership, TUI UK & Ireland has achieved commercial success, launched two new cruise ships, seen developments in the Retail estate, the e-Commerce programme, Contact Centre operations and he led the business through the rebrand to TUI."
It said all members of the UK & Ireland board will report into David Burling until a new managing director for TUI UK & Ireland is appointed.
David Burling, CEO TUI Northern Region said: "Nick has been a fantastic colleague and has continually strived to do the best for the business and all those who work for it. I want to thank him for his support and thank him for all he’s done and wish him the very best for the future."
Longman was appointed MD of TUI UK & Ireland at the beginning of June 2015.
Before that he held various leadership roles in the business since 1998 when he joines as head of audit for First Choice.
He was integration director for the merger of Thomson and First Choice in 2006 and UK distribution director in 2008, overseeing the move to direct distribution, the growth of online sales and the ‘revitalisation’ of TUI’s retail estate.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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