Over 300,000 international guests and travellers vote each year during a four-week period to select the winners among luxury hotels across more than 99 different categories.

Today, holidaymakers can choose from 150,000 experiences around the globe at TUI. Around 50,000 of these are curated.

Island tours and city trips, hiking tours and diving courses, safaris in the desert: Experiences are now at least as important for holidaymakers as hotel, beach and pool.

The news of Thomas Cook's insolvency has also caused great consternation among the employees of TUI Group. Although competitors in the market, many employees of both companies were friends for many years.

TUI Group is contributing to the global fight against plastic waste, aiming to remove 250 million single-use plastic items across all businesses by 2020.

For the ceremony, the HANSEATIC inspiration became the stage: eleven high-performance beamers projected a 12-minute multimedia show onto the outside of the ship.

The international 5-star expedition ship was named by Laura Dekker.