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FRITZ


JOUSSEN Tui Group


New Tui chief executive Fritz Joussen outlined his vision for the group at an exclusive Travel Weekly dinner. Ian Taylor reports


leadership with Peter Long that followed Tui Travel’s merger with German-based Tui at the end of 2014.


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Joussen’s background in the mobile phone industry played a significant role in his taking the job and in shaping the vision he has set for the company. He explained: “I started with the


first private mobile company in Germany [Mannesmann].” When the firm was acquired by Vodafone in 2000, Joussen worked as strategy director, looking to answer the question ‘What happens if the internet comes to mobile?’ He subsequently ran Vodafone Germany from 2005 to 2012. When he left, he contemplated a job in private equity. But the board of Tui, then the controlling shareholder in Tui Travel, approached him and, in his words, said: “We have a trading business that is potentially disintermediated by the internet.


14 travelweekly.co.uk 25 February 2016


ritz Joussen took over as sole chief executive of Tui this month, ending a period of joint


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