Hannover, 5 June 2023

Kathrin Möllers is TUI Group’s new Director Sustainability & ESG

Kathrin Möllers will become Group Director Sustainability & ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) of TUI Group. She will take over the leadership of the international team from Charlotte Wwiebe on 1 July 2023. 

In recent years, Kathrin Möllers has worked intensively on the topics of change, digitalisation and sustainability at TUI and successfully managed and implemented strategic transformation processes during her time in the Group's airline division. With her vast operational experience and extensive technical expertise, she will drive the practical implementation of the TUI Sustainability Agenda, which was presented at the beginning of 2023, and develop it further in all of the Group's business areas. With a degree in industrial engineering, she will be able to bring her extensive experience from the airline sector to bear. This will play a decisive role in achieving the Group's climate targets. 

Kathrin Möllers began her career at TUI in 2014 as a consultant in project and process management, later taking on various management positions in TUI's international airline organisation. She is currently Head of Aircraft Asset & Business Management. In her new role, Kathrin Möllers reports to Thomas Ellerbeck, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Chief Sustainability Officer of TUI Group.

The TUI Sustainability Agenda was published at the beginning of this year. Now that the strategy process has been successfully completed, the focus is on implementing the Sustainability Agenda in the various business areas. TUI aims to build on its leading position in sustainability in the tourism sector.

After successful years in management positions at TUI Group, Charlotte Wwiebe will contribute her knowledge and experience in various organisations as a consultant and Supervisory Board member in the future, as announced in February 2023.

About TUI Group

The TUI Group is one of the world's leading tourism groups and operates worldwide. The Group is headquartered in Germany. TUI shares are listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, in the regulated market of the Lower Saxony Stock Exchange in Hanover and in the FTSE 250, an index of the London Stock Exchange. TUI Group offers its 19 million customers integrated services from a single source and forms the entire tourism value chain under one roof. The Group owns over 400 hotels and resorts with premium brands such as RIU, TUI Blue and Robinson and 16 cruise ships, ranging from the MS Europa and MS Europa 2 in the luxury class and expedition ships in the HANSEATIC class to the Mein Schiff fleet of TUI Cruises and cruise ships operated by Marella Cruises in the UK. The Group also includes Europe's leading tour operator brands and online marketing platforms, for example for hotel-only or flight-only offers, five airlines with more than 130 modern medium- and long-haul aircraft and around 1,200 travel agencies. In addition to expanding its core business with hotels and cruises via successful joint ventures and activities in vacation destinations, TUI is increasingly focusing on the expansion of digital platforms. The Group is transforming itself into a global tourism platform company.

Global responsibility for sustainable economic, environmental and social action is at the heart of our corporate culture. With projects in 25 countries, the TUI Care Foundation initiated by TUI focuses on the positive effects of tourism, on education and training and on strengthening environmental and social standards. In this way, it supports the development of vacation destinations. The globally active TUI Care Foundation initiates projects that create new opportunities for the next generation.