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TUI Cruises Big Mein Schiff 6 Sneaks Into Port at Heraklion

2020-09-19 by Phil Butler

TUI Cruises

TUI Cruises’ Mein Shiff 6 steams into Heraklion’s port virutally unnotticed. The German company manages to become the first to redux cruising in Greece.

Tags: all inclusive, Crete citizens, Crete cruises, Crete ports, Crete tours, Fritz Joussen, German cruise line, Greece hotels, Greece restaurants, Greek cruises, Greek spas, Heraklion cruises, Heraklion port, Mein Schiff 6, sustainable tourism, TUI

Beijing Culture and Tourism Leads Post-COVID Era Via Online Forum

2020-09-18 by Argophilia Travel News

Beijing Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau is

As a global pandemic forces the world into a new era of international travel, Beijing Tourism is leading the way with a two-part online forum series.

Tags: AirBnb, Beijing Culture, Beijing Culture and Tourism, Beijing tourism, China, conferences, Lufthansa Group, MICE, PATA, Post-COVID travel, teleconferences, TripAdvisor, TUI, world tourism, WYSE Travel Confederation

Greek Finance Minister Beckons Foreign Investors to Come to Greece

2020-09-18 by Phil Butler

Χρήστος Σταϊκούρας / Christos Staikouras

Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras is inviting foreign investors to invest in Greece. But some fear outsiders already own too much of the country.

Tags: Christos Staikouras, ESM, European Stability Mechanism, Greek debt, Jörg Kukies, Klaus Regling, Lufthansa, TUI

The Greece Tourism Crisis: First Good, Then Bad, Now Worse

2020-09-16 by Phil Butler

Greece’s drive to promote tourism using the status quo, it is not going to work. Everything put forward from the tourism ministry and the rest of the current administration is about going back and appearing to go forward.

Tags: Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus Greece, coronavirus response, COVID-19 measures, crete, Fraport, Greece FDI, Greece SMEs, Greek hotels, Halkidiki, Harry Theoharis, hotel bankruptcy, Ioannis Giorgos, second wave, TUI, TUI Group

EU Commissioners Propose Disney-Dopey Style COVID Labels

2020-09-05 by Phil Butler

EU officials now want to do a “Disney” on the COVID-19 pandemic after member states show fragmented policies to defeat the virus.

Tags: border controls, EU, EU COVID response, EU rules, EU Travel, pandemic, travel, TUI, Ursula von der Leyen

Tourism Minister Tells CNN He’s Proud Greece Reopened to Tourists

2020-09-04 by Phil Butler

Greek Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis says he’s proud of tourism season redux. Citizens not so proud with COVID-19 cases rising.

Tags: CNN, COVID-19 cases, Greece economy, Greece travel, Greek pandemic response, Greek Vacation 2020, Harry Theocharis, Harry Theoharis, Kethimerini, Politico, Richard Quest, tour operators, tourism industry, tourism minister, TUI, Visit Greece

Was the TUI Deal a Bad Pandemic Bargain for the Greeks?

2020-09-01 by Phil Butler

Gatwick passengers

Many people are now convinced that Greece should have stayed shut to outside tourists until the coronvirus pandemic passed.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Europe travel, KfW, travel, TUI, TUI #, TUI Holidays, TUI stocks, UK travelers

TUI Announces the Closing of 166 Travel Branches in UK and Ireland

2020-07-31 by Argophilia Travel News

TUI Headquarters

TUI has announced it will close 166 high street stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. So far, the exact branches have not been named.

Tags: travel, TUI, TUI Group, TUI UK, UK jobs

TUI’s Mein Schiff 2 Sets Sail Into Wicked Public Relations Storm

2020-07-26 by Phil Butler

TUI Cruises' Mein Schiff

TUI, the world’s biggest tour company is back promoting cruises with a “business as usual” approach that has many concerned.

Tags: 2020 cruises, AIDA, Coronavirus, COVID-19 testing, cruise critics, cruise news, Marcus Puttich, Mein Schiff 1, Mein Schiff 2, TUI, TUI Cruises

Here We Go: TUI and Greece to Set “Strategic” Partnership

2020-06-30 by Phil Butler

Amalfi Beach

Tourism Μinister Haris Theocharis will announce a special agreement with the largest travel organizer in the world, TUI Group.

Tags: Alexei Mordashov, All-inclusive, Harry Theoharis, Sustainable Crete, sustainable tourism, Thomas Ellerbeck, travel industry, TUI, TUI Crete, TUI Group

TUI Announces Readiness for Holidaymakers Worldwide for Summer 2020

2020-06-30 by Argophilia Travel News

TUI headquarters

German tour giant TUI has started its summer holidays 2020 schedule, and Greece is among the first major destinations for clients.

Tags: Greece flights, Greece travel, Greece vacations, GreekVacation2020, Summer 2020, TUI, TUI flights, TUI Group, TUI vacations

Five Crete Hotels Sell to Investment Firms Henderson Capital and Hines

2020-06-25 by Phil Butler

Sitia Beach City Resort & Spa

Piraeus Bank announced today financing a property deal by property investment companies Henderson Park and Hines to buy five hotels on Crete.

Tags: Agios Nikolaos hotels, Apollonia Resort, Coral Hotel, Crete resorts, distressed hotels, Eleni Vrettou, Greece hospitality, Greece hotels, Henderson Capital, Hermes Hotel, Hines, hotel sales, Nick Weber, pandemic, pandemic 2020, Paul Gomopoulos, Piraeus Bank, Santa Marina Resort, Sitia Beach Resort, TUI

TUI’s CEO Friedrich Joussen Pokes a Nose Out After Months of Lockdown

2020-06-24 by Phil Butler

TUI Group

TUI CEO Friedrich Joussen calls Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Bulgaria, Spain, Austria, and Denmark “well prepared” for the summer 2020.

Tags: Blackrock, Crete hotel sale, Crete hotels, Crete properties, Friedrich Joussen, Greece hotels, Greece tourism market, Hotels for sale, TUI, TUI Greece

TUI Group to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Stocks Plummet Farther

2020-05-13 by Phil Butler

TUI Group logo

TUI Group has announced cutting 8,000 jobs in an effort to reduce costs amid the coronavirus crisis, even as stocks plummet farther.

Tags: Carnival, COVID-19, EasyJet, Fritz Joussen, tour companies, tourism, tourism industry, travel destinations, TUI, TUI AG/ADR, TUI Group, TUI shares, TUI stocks, TUI Travel

TUI Has Released a Ten-point Plan for Hotels for Post Coronavirus

2020-05-12 by Argophilia Travel News

TUI Headquarters

TUI Group has created a ten-point plan for hotel operations for the coming post coronavirus days and months.

Tags: Coronavirus, coronavirus response, Holidays, Robinson, TUI, TUI Blue, TUI Group, TUI Magic Life

TUI Pushing Hard for Early Tourism Invasion of Greece

2020-05-06 by Phil Butler

Mykonos

This week in Greece, citizens are emerging from a weeks long lockdown. Meanwhile, TUI and other big travel businesses push ahead hard.

Tags: Balearic Islands, Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus Greece, COVID-19, crete, Cyprus, Fritz Joussen, Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, portugal, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI profits, TUI stocks

The Hospitality Industry’s COVID-19 Ultimatum: Evolve or Die

2020-04-21 by Phil Butler

Virtual wedding

Tourism and hospitality are facing deconstruct. Here’s an encapsulization of the coming battle for survival in a key global industry.

Tags: Adrian Bejan, Booking.com, Brian Solis, capitalism, consumerism, COVID-19, Digital Darwinism, Drew Hansen, Franziska Altenrath, global tourism, hospitality industry, Hospitality Net, Jan Hein Simons, Jonathan Day, MRP Hotels, OTA, OTA's, Revinate, socialism, technology, TUI, TUTAKA, Willy Legrand

Revinate Tries Half-Hearted Coronavirus Campaign

2020-04-20 by Phil Butler

Frankfurt

Revinate is the latest hospitality firm to plop down a limited coronavirus strategy information campaign, just when the industry needs help.

Tags: Ariela Kiradjian, booking, Booking.com, Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association, Cara Federici, COVID-19, Hospitality Industry Club, Madison Melle Agency, Marc Heyneker, Rani Croshal, Revinate, travel, TUI

TUI Cancels TUI Holidays Over Coronavirus Situation

2020-03-23 by Argophilia Travel News

Marella Explorer 2

TUI will no longer be offering TUI holidays departing 17 March to 16 April 2020 on account of restrictions from the coronavisus pandemic.

Tags: airlines, Coronavirus 2019, cruise cancellation, cruises, Crystal Sky, flight cancellation, Marella Cruises, TUI, TUI Holidays, UK flights

TUI Temporarily Quits Operations Over COVID-19 Pandemic

2020-03-16 by Phil Butler

TUI Family Life

TUI has temporarily suspended most of its travel operations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Company spokespersons say the move is a “compliance” and “industry adjustment” move. The news comes as the whole industry is in a state of shock as to “next moves.” TUI is on a shortlist of companies investing gurus say may be […]

Tags: Bloomberg, COVID-19, COVID-19 cancellations, COVID-19 Italy, pandemic, tourism, travel agencies, travel agents, travel industry, travel stocks, TUI, TUI Group, TUI stocks, TUI Travel, Wall Street, world travel

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