Europe’s greatest tourism providers supplier, TUI AG, says there may be elevated demand for journeys to Greece and Turkey all through the autumn and, past that, for metropolis breaks over the winter.
TUI CEO Sebastian Ebel, speaking to analysts concerning the firm’s newest monetary outcomes, mentioned that the corporate is in talks with each Greek and Turkish resort house owners in what are usually summer time locations to maintain their lodges open a minimum of till the top of November.
TUI will even look to develop its share in metropolis break journeys.
“We are designing new offers for the post-peak season period and we aim to keep available hotels in Greece and Turkey until January,” Ebel mentioned.
TUI brings over 3 million guests yearly to Greece and is consistently seeking to develop that quantity by devising new packages that embrace actions tailor-made to its purchasers’ wants. It says that the outcomes of latest surveys present an elevated desire by vacationers, particularly from Germany and the UK, to keep away from peak warmth and peak guests, together with peak costs.
Greece is changing into an more and more standard vacation spot for the spring and fall months. So is Turkey, which is being promoted as a less expensive different to Greece. The demand for fall journeys and metropolis breaks has led TUI to upwardly revise its 2025 turnover. Operational revenue features will likely be even increased, it says.
It can be more and more concentrating on dynamic packaging, the place purchasers decide their very own mixture of flights, lodging and actions moderately than select from static packages. This permits TUI to additionally increase its costs; dynamic packaging is claimed to develop from 25% of the entire presents in 2025 to 50% in 2026. TUI’s technique is backed up by most large-scale analysis on Europeans’ altering journey habits. “Europeans are not prepared to compromise on travel; they increasingly prefer quieter destinations and off-peak travel,” says Miguel Sanz, president of the European Travel Commission.
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