TUI continues to expect a successful full year 2025 and reaffirms its targets and outlook after six months. The second quarter (January to March) was concluded with a good result despite the economic challenges in Europe. Group revenue for the reporting period (January to March 2025) amounted to €3.71 billion (previous year: €3.68 billion).
TUI Group CEO Sebastian Ebel: "The environment was challenging. And the second half of the year will also remain demanding for the overall economy in Europe. Our integrated and diversified business model with its activities in Europe and increasingly also outside Europe, proved its worth again in the second quarter. The Hotel, Cruises and activities business benefited from strong tour operator and travel sales. Our focus is now on the important summer business. We are offering more and more products in more destinations for existing and new customers. In times of economic and political challenges, we are focusing on securing margins, driving forward the transformation of the Markets + Airline business (tour operators, retail and TUI Airline) and consistently reducing costs. Travel agencies remain an important partner and distribution channel.We are expanding our tour operator business and travel agency sales, as well as our own app, in particular with our dynamically compiled product offerings. We see that customers appreciate the flexibility and significantly greater choice. More individuality, flexibile options and the proven security of package holidays are the strengths of dynamically sourced travel offerings. This enables us to optimise the customer lifetime value and offer customers more frequent leisure activities and trips with TUI all year-round – from summer holidays and city breaks to event activities. We are continuing to expand the synergies from our integrated business model and are leveraging the sales strength of our Markets + Airline division strategically and operationally. This will further strengthen the already highly successful Holiday Experiences, as well as the overall profitability of the Group. Our global platforms are increasingly helping us to achieve this.”
Mathias Kiep, TUI Group CFO: “We are in a good financial position as a Group. We were able to further reduce our net debt. In March 2025, we successfully refinanced our central financing instrument, the sustainability-linked revolving credit facility (RCF). The new RCF, which has a term of five years and matures in March 2030, has a volume of around 1.9 billion euros and improves our financial flexibility and liquidity position."
Holiday Experiences remains on track, supported by higher average prices in the second half of the year. In the Hotels & Resorts segment, occupancy is up 1 percentage point with an average price increase of 8 per cent. The number of available passenger days for cruises is up 23 per cent thanks to two new additions to the TUI Cruises fleet. Global occupancy is at the previous year's level. The daily rate is up 2 per cent. TUI Musement is benefiting from strong demand for its own differentiated products and expects bookings to increase in the high single-digit range. The number of transfers in the second half of the year is in line with our expectations for Markets + Airline.
For the upcoming Summer 2025, the Group's strategy focuses on growing dynamically packaged travel, securing margins and reduce cost. Due to the later Easter business in April, a later booking behaviour can be observed. In a highly competitive environment with capacities remaining unchanged, incoming bookings are slightly below the previous year's level at -1 per cent. Average prices are up +4 per cent.
TUI remains on course for growth – the focus continues to be on operational excellence, implementing initiatives for further transformation and profitable growth. The outlook is based on sustainable growth in the Holiday Experiences segment and transforming the Markets + Airline business. It is also supported by the overall good performance in the first half of 2025. Against this backdrop, the Group confirms its guidance for the 2025 financial year:
TUI is pursuing a clear strategy to accelerate profitable growth. The transformation is aimed at making TUI's business more agile and cost-efficient and achieving greater speed in market launches and global expansion. This will generate additional value for customers, shareholders and employees.
In the medium term, TUI therefore continues to expect:
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 MDAX index of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and in the regulated market of the Lower Saxony Stock Exchange in Hanover. TUI Group offers its over 33 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 18 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 125 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.