Company type | Public |
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LSE: TT. | |
Industry | Transport |
Founded | 2007 |
Defunct | 2014 (Merged with TUI AG) |
Headquarters | Crawley, England, UK |
Key people | Friedrich Joussen (Chairman) Sir Michael Hodgkinson (Deputy Chairman) Peter Long (Chief Executive) |
Products | Passenger transport, travel agency, accommodation |
Revenue | £15,051 million (2013)[1] |
£297 million (2013)[1] | |
£63 million (2013)[1] | |
Owner | TUI AG (56.4%)[2] |
Number of employees | 54,000 (2013)[3] |
Subsidiaries | Thomson Airways Thomson Holidays |
Website | www |
TUI Travel PLC was a British leisure travel group headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex. The company was formed on 3 September 2007 by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the Tourism Division of TUI AG, which owned 56.4% of it.[2] The company operated in 180 countries and claimed 30 million customers.[4]
The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange, and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. TUI Travel merged with its German parent in 2014 to form the TUI Group.[5][6]