Archive Press Conferences
A picture often says more than a thousand words. But it is still important in some cases to know exactly what was said. This section contains a compilation of the most important speeches given in the recent past – each available as an online version, PDF file or video.
Press documentations of Annual Press Conferences of previous years |
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| Annual Press Conference 2007 | Our Annual Press Conference 2007 took place on March 19th at the "Meridien"-Hotel in Hamburg. more ... |
| Annual Press Conference 2006 | TUI AG has successfully completed the 2005 financial year. The Group’s core businesses tourism and shipping continued the positive trend of the previous year. Turnover in the tourism division rose 5.8 per cent to 14.1 billion euros, outperforming the global travel market. In shipping, turnover grew by 42.7 per cent to 3.8 billion euros. Overall Group turnover by divisions stood at 19.6 billion euros, an increase of 8.7 per cent year-on-year. Prospects: TUI AG maintains its medium-term earnings goals for tourism. A further improvement in earnings is targeted in 2006. In particular in the large source markets Germany, UK and France, earnings have benefited from the cost-cutting and efficiency improvement programmes initiated in previous years. In shipping, the programme to integrate CP Ships is progressing according to plan. more ... Speech by Dr. Michael Frenzel more... Speech as PDF file Speech by Rainer Feuerhake more... Speech as PDF file |
| Annual Press Conference 2005 | Group turnover totalled 18.0 billion euros, falling by 6.1% year-on-year. On a like-for-like basis, Group turnover rose by 7.3%. In Dr Frenzel's view, tourism may again achieve double-digit growth in 2005. Following China and Russia, the focus will now be on India in order to tap an additional source market. more ... Speech by Dr. Michael Frenzel more... Speech as PDF file Speech by Rainer Feuerhake more... Speech as PDF file |
| Annual Press Conference 2004 | TUI AG has held its own well in 2003, which was a difficult year for the holiday industry. 'Against this uniquely difficult background, our Group has coped well with the challenges. We stand solid as a rock in a competitive environment', said Dr Michael Frenzel, CEO of TUI AG, at the annual press conference in Hanover. Thanks to the Group's successful divestments and positive operating results of the divisions, he was able to present an extraordinarily good result. Earnings were clearly positive, even in the tourism business which was extremely difficult in 2003. Group profit for the year also rose strongly. Net debt was significantly reduced, as planned.
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Speech by Dr. Michael Frenzel more... Speech as PDF file Speech by Rainer Feuerhake more... Speech as PDF file |
| Annual Press Conference 2003 | TUI AG has made major strides in focusing on its business areas of tourism and logistics. In fiscal 2002, the company divested other non-core business areas and continued to reduce its debt as planned. At an early point in time, TUI AG initiated extensive cost-cutting measures and introduced a number of innovations in order to achieve a sustainable increase in the Group's profitability.
Dr. Michael Frenzel, the CEO of TUI AG, pointed out in this context: "In the rapidly changing environment, we repeatedly demonstrated our flexibility and adaptability. The Preussag tanker has been transformed into the TUI speedboat that will continue to benefit from its manoeuvrability and speed in future." more ... Dr. Michael Frenzel's speech is archived in various formats: more... Speech as PDF file |
Press documentations of the ITB Press Conferences 2005 |
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| ITB 2005, Germany | ITB Berlin is a prime meeting place, a marketplace, and a driving force behind the entire industry. Once again TUI was represented at this year's ITB. At ITB Press Conference Dr. Michael Frenzel, CEO of TUI AG, made statements about the market situation and about "World of TUI in the internet". In this category you can have a look at the speeches. more ... |