TUI Confirms 2026 Targets as Geopolitical Uncertainty Remains


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TUI stays on course.

Despite an environment marked by geopolitical tensions, economic slowdown across several European markets and greater consumer caution, the travel group confirms its financial outlook for the 2026 financial year.

At the end of the third quarter, covering the period from April to June 2026, TUI reports an underlying EBIT of €235 million, compared with €321 million a year earlier. The result was notably affected by €20 million due to the direct consequences of the war in Iran on the cruise activity.

For the nine months of the year, the underlying EBIT reached €123 million, vs €165 million in the same period in 2025.

According to the group, the effects of the war in Iran and the hurricane in Jamaica weighed on the result by €81 million. Excluding these exceptional items, TUI believes its performance would have surpassed that of the previous year.


Late Reservations

Dans ce contexte, le groupe constate surtout une évolution des comportements d’achat. Les consommateurs continuent de voyager, mais prennent leurs décisions plus tardivement.

Après plusieurs semaines marquées par la prudence, TUI observe un redressement des réservations. Sur les quatre dernières semaines, les revenus réservés ont progressé de 7%, réduisant le retard enregistré depuis le début de la saison estivale. Le chiffre d’affaires réservé pour l’été 2026 reste toutefois inférieur de 6% à celui de l’année précédente.

Les destinations court et moyen-courrier restent les plus demandées, notamment la Grèce et l’Espagne, Baléares et Canaries comprises. La demande pour les destinations de Méditerranée orientale montre également des signes de reprise ces dernières semaines.

Pour Sebastian Ebel, directeur général de TUI, cette évolution confirme la résilience de la demande touristique. “Le voyage reste très important dans la vie des gens“, souligne-t-il, tout en constatant que le calendrier des décisions d’achat s’est déplacé vers des réservations plus proches du départ.


Hotels and Cruises Hold Up

L’activité Holiday Experiences, qui regroupe notamment les hôtels, les croisières et TUI Musement, continue de soutenir les performances du groupe. Elle a généré un EBIT sous-jacent de 278 millions d’euros au troisième trimestre, contre 294 millions un an auparavant.

Dans l’hôtellerie, TUI Hotels & Resorts affiche un EBIT de 121 millions d’euros au troisième trimestre. Le nombre de nuitées disponibles progresse légèrement de 1%, à 11,3 millions, tandis que le taux d’occupation recule de cinq points, à 77%. Le groupe explique cette évolution notamment par la montée en puissance de nouveaux établissements et par une demande moins soutenue en Méditerranée orientale, au Mexique et dans les Caraïbes. Le tarif moyen journalier reste, lui, stable à 88 euros.

Le segment croisières continue également d’afficher de solides performances opérationnelles. Son EBIT sous-jacent atteint 133 millions d’euros au troisième trimestre, contre 143 millions un an plus tôt. Le recul est entièrement lié à l’impact exceptionnel de 20 millions d’euros de la guerre en Iran.

Pour des raisons de sécurité, les navires Mein Schiff 4 et Mein Schiff 5 étaient restés dans des ports de la région du Golfe entre mars et la mi-mai 2026. Les itinéraires ont ensuite pu reprendre. Hors cet impact, l’EBIT du segment aurait progressé de 10 millions d’euros.

La demande reste par ailleurs soutenue sur les marchés allemand et britannique. Les tarifs moyens des croisières ont progressé de 4%, à 252 euros, tandis que le taux de remplissage, hors impact de la guerre en Iran, s’est amélioré d’un point pour atteindre 99%.


TUI Musement Continues Its Progress

Autre activité en croissance, TUI Musement enregistre une hausse de 10,8% de son EBIT sous-jacent au troisième trimestre, à 23 millions d’euros. Le groupe attribue cette progression notamment à l’amélioration de son activité B2B et aux gains d’efficacité opérationnelle.

Sur neuf mois, l’EBIT sous-jacent de TUI Musement progresse de 171%, à 17,3 millions d’euros, contre 6,4 millions d’euros un an auparavant. Le nombre d’expériences vendues reste quasiment stable, à 2,9 millions, tandis que les transferts diminuent de 10%, à 7,9 millions, dans un contexte de demande affectée par les incertitudes géopolitiques.

À l’inverse, l’activité Markets + Airline, qui regroupe les tour-opérateurs, les ventes et TUI Airline, reste sous pression. Son EBIT sous-jacent ressort à -16 millions d’euros au troisième trimestre, contre +50 millions un an plus tôt. Le groupe évoque une demande plus faible, une pression accrue sur les prix, la hausse des coûts du carburant et des capacités supplémentaires sur le marché.


France Still in the Red

Dans le détail régional, les trois principales zones commerciales de TUI restent confrontées à un environnement difficile.

La région centrale, qui comprend notamment l’Allemagne, l’Autriche, la Suisse et la Pologne, affiche un EBIT sous-jacent de -10 millions d’euros au troisième trimestre, contre +25 millions un an auparavant. La région Nord, qui regroupe le Royaume-Uni, l’Irlande et les pays nordiques, ressort à +10 millions d’euros, contre +45 millions.

La région Ouest, qui comprend les Pays-Bas, la Belgique et la France, enregistre pour sa part un EBIT sous-jacent de -16 millions d’euros, contre -21 millions un an auparavant. Malgré cette perte, le résultat s’améliore donc légèrement sur un an.


Mondial Tourisme Expands Mondi Club in the Canary Islands and Targets Egypt for Winter 2026–2027


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The new Winter 2026-2027 brochure from Mondial Tourisme is now being distributed to travel agencies and is available online.

For this new season, the tour operator continues to develop its in-house clubs while expanding its long-haul offerings and the options for departures from the provinces.

But before addressing the winter schedule, Mondial Tourisme also draws a few lessons from the summer of 2026.

While Tunisia and the Canary Islands stood out as some of the best-performing destinations, the summer period was mainly characterized by a shift in customer behavior.

According to Laure Chevrinais, head of communications at Mondial Tourisme, the traditional July-August peak is losing ground to the shoulder seasons. “We are increasingly realizing that July-August is no longer the peak season as we used to know it“, she explains.

The summer of 2026 was also marked by geopolitical tensions and concerns about air travel.

Announcements about possible fuel supply difficulties or flight disruptions may have contributed to delaying decision-making. Some customers reportedly favored waiting to book later, pushing more bookings to the last minute.


Three New Mondi Clubs in the Canaries

For the winter, one of the main development axes focuses on the Canaries. Mondial Tourisme unveils three new Mondi Clubs, bringing the brand’s total number of properties on the archipelago to seven.

In Lanzarote, the operator offers notably the Mondi Club Galeon Playa 3*, labeled Relax and available on a half-board basis, as well as the Mondi Club Beatriz Playa & Spa 4*, in all-inclusive format. In Tenerife, the Mondi Club Grand Muthu Golf Plaza 4* completes this new lineup.

This expansion follows a logic of growth in a destination capable of operating beyond the mere summer season.

The Canary Islands are indeed a destination that works year-round, both in summer and in winter. That’s why we want to strengthen a little more in this destination“, emphasizes Laure Chevrinais.

With these new addresses, Mondial Tourisme aims to consolidate a destination already well established in its portfolio and to offer more choices to agencies and clients.


Tunisia Remains the Operator’s Leading Destination

Tunisia remains the Mondial Tourisme’s main market. The tour operator claims more than 100,000 passengers per year to the destination, which is one of its historical focal points.

For the winter 2026-2027, the operator notably expands its lineup with the Welcome Meridiana 4* in Djerba. Already present in Mondial Tourisme’s programming, the property is now part of the Mondi Club range after several renovations.

The destination also benefits from a positioning particularly suited to the winter season, with a long-stay offer allowing travelers to chase sunshine a few hours from France.


Egypt Aims to Confirm Its Restart

Another market under close watch for the upcoming season is Egypt. Mondial Tourisme broadens its program with a new seven-night package titled “Treasures of the Nile to the Pyramids of Cairo“.

The product combines Cairo sightseeing and a Nile cruise, in a shorter format than the nine-night package “From the Pyramids to the Red Sea” that is offered elsewhere. The stay is marketed from €1,289 per week.

For Mondial Tourisme, Egypt had been one of the destinations showing signs of recovery before the recent slowdown linked to geopolitical context.

Before the conflict, it was really a destination that was rebounding very well. There was a small pause, but we hope it will start up again“, says Laure Chevrinais.

The choice of a new seven-night format should particularly help meet clients looking to combine several experiences without devoting too long to the trip.


Lapland: Regional Departures Reconfirmed

The Lapland is also among Mondial Tourisme’s bets for the winter.

Building on the success of the previous season, the operator is renewing departures to Finnish and Swedish Lapland from several French cities. Flights are scheduled from Deauville, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Marseille, in addition to Paris.

The Mondi Club Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland remains at the heart of the program, with stays that incorporate the main Arctic experiences: dogsledding, snowmobiling, meeting reindeer, ice fishing, and the aurora borealis.

This regional departure strategy already appears to be paying off. “We can already see that it’s working very well“, confirms Laure Chevrinais.


Aviation: Brussels Targets Carbon Quotas, Threatens Prices and European Airlines? [ABO]


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Hard times for the Gulf hubs.

While geopolitical tensions and thus instability persist in the region, affecting air traffic, the appeal of the Gulf’s strongholds— notably the Doha, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi hubs— could further diminish in the years to come.

Indeed, in a proposal for a directive from the European Parliament and the Council, it is learned that the European Commission plans to extend its Emissions Trading System, the ETS, beyond intra-European flights.

Eric Drésin, secretary general of ECTAA (the European association of travel agents and tour operators), told TourMaG that this project is very recent, “we are really at the very beginnings of discussions on these issues. But there could be an increase in costs for the airlines.

Briefly remind what the ETS are, Emissions Trading Schemes in English, which can be translated as: systems for trading emission rights. A system introduced in 2005 obliging companies to purchase rights to emit CO₂.



Chinese and Americans Spared by Brussels

Regarding air transport, these emission quotas apply only to flights within Europe.

But starting in 2029, Brussels aims to adjust the criteria and include the scheme for flights whose destinations are less than 5,000 kilometers from Frankfurt.

Would then be affected a portion of Africa, of Russia and especially the Middle East with carriers such as Emirates, Qatar, Etihad or even the “little” Riyadh Air. This extension, on the simple principle that the farther you go the more you pay, can be understood. However Brussels is up against the hard law of the strongest which seems to become the law “full stop.” The famous 5,000 kilometers thus completely spare the United States and China, which had suggested that in the event of new “taxes” there would be retaliations.


Carbon quotas: European airlines protest

With this proposed ETS extension, at first glance one might think Brussels is restoring a bit of fairness in the fierce competition between European carriers and those from the Gulf that will now be impacted.

But most major European-based airlines think the opposite. For groups like Air France-KLM, Lufthansa or IAG, this extension would cover hundreds of new routes among those they operate and thus ETS costs would truly explode.

In the columns of the Dutch daily De Volkskrant, the carrier KLM had said that it already pays €172 million for emission rights, i.e., 1.5% of its total costs, and viewed a massive price rise with dismay in the coming years.

By means of a note published last May, Air France-KLM informed Brussels that it opposesfirmly any extension of the EU ETS to all flights departing the European Union to destinations outside Europe.” The group asserts that such a measure would further increase the decarbonization burden already disproportionately borne by European carriers. It adds that it would amplify distortions of competition vis-à-vis non-European carriers and could provoke retaliation measures from third countries.

And this document, produced by Air France-KLM’s top management, goes well beyond a mere protest. It is also a counterproposal to Brussels’ upcoming revision of the European emissions trading system, to which the group says it would contribute more effectively and profitably to the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality goal.

Among the proposed measures, and besides maintaining the current geographic scope of the ETS, Air France-KLM also calls for extending the free carbon quotas granted to carriers using SAF to beyond 2030, a limit set by Brussels.

Known as FEETS (Fuel EU ETS Support), this temporary mechanism allocates free carbon quotas called SAF Allowances to carriers using SAF to reduce their ETS bill.

This transitional measure, designed as an encouragement to adopt SAF, is supposed to end in principle in 2030 but for Air France-KLM, that limit is incompatible with industrial SAF investments that are planned over 15–20 years and with the ramping up of SAF-fuel obligations, which remains for a long time far more expensive than kerosene and will have to be carried in the tanks at 70% by 2050.


Plans to Abandon Routes?

In Air France-KLM’s document, the group also seems ready for significant concessions, notably route abandonments, provided that this SAF Allowances scheme is extended to intermodal practices feeding the group’s hubs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam-Schiphol.

In other words, if Brussels were to reward airlines with free carbon quotas for transporting passengers by train to their hub, certain routes could simply be dropped.

The group would like to convert air passengers into rail passengers for those connecting to long-haul flights, replacing short- and medium-haul flights that fall under the EU Emissions Trading System.

We are thinking of certain links between French provinces and CDG, or other European cities near Amsterdam such as Brussels.

A little revolution.


MEININGER Hotels Accelerates Expansion, Targets 50 Properties by 2030


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MEININGER Hotels is pursuing sustained growth ambitions.

The group, which blends the codes of traditional hospitality and hostel-style accommodations, closed its 2026 fiscal year (April 2025 to March 2026) with revenues exceeding €200 million, while reporting almost 4.6 million guest nights, up by about 2% year over year.

The average occupancy rate stood at nearly 80%, in a context marked by softer demand due to the absence of major international events and rising living costs.

“We have recorded solid growth in our revenue and earnings compared with the previous year. This performance underscores the structural robustness of our business model,” said Ajit Menon, CEO of MEININGER Hotels, in a release.

The group’s group bookings segment remains a growth driver for the company. It now accounts for between 20% and 25% of revenue and rose by 10% in the last fiscal year.


Expansion Driven by New Openings

The group currently operates 37 hybrid hotels across 27 European cities, representing nearly 6,000 rooms and over 21,000 beds. Its target is now to reach 50 properties by 2030, with a priority given to Southern and Eastern Europe markets.

After the opening of a new hotel in Barcelona on June 25, several inaugurations are already planned: Edinburgh and Tel Aviv in 2026, Strasbourg in 2027, followed by Madrid, Dublin and Porto in 2028.

For the 2027 fiscal year, MEININGER Hotels is targeting around 5 million guest nights. The group expects to benefit from a more favorable calendar, driven by major international trade shows, sporting events and international artists’ tours.

Alongside its real estate development, the brand continues investing in digital transformation. Its chatbot named MILA now handles a substantial portion of recurring customer inquiries, while online check-in roll-out aims to streamline arrivals and enhance operational efficiency.

The group also plans to roll out Mobile Key, enabling guests to access their room via their smartphone. This feature is expected to be available network-wide by the end of 2028.

Investments are also directed at internal tools, with the phased deployment of a new cloud-based HR platform intended to harmonize recruitment processes and employee management.


Renovations Planned in Paris, Marseille and Strasbourg

Beyond new openings, MEININGER Hotels is also advancing the modernization of its existing properties.

Renovations have already taken place in Frankfurt, Salzburg, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

The MEININGER Hotel Berlin Mitte Humboldthaus has benefited from a full renovation of its rooms and public spaces, including the creation of a new bar.

In 2027, several properties will similarly undergo work, notably those in Munich, Vienna, Marseille and Paris.

According to Thomas Hagemann, COO of MEININGER Hotels, these renovations aim to harmonize the group’s standards and to offer a consistent guest experience across the entire portfolio.


Employee Retention and ESG Commitments

The group also highlights its achievements in human resources.

In 2026, staff retention rose by more than 10%, while the number of applications increased by 20%. MEININGER Hotels’ teams now bring together employees from around 90 nationalities.

On the environmental front, the company continues monitoring its greenhouse gas emissions to guide its CO₂ reduction actions.

For 2027, it plans to strengthen environmental training for its teams and to conduct climate risk analyses at certain properties to better integrate these issues into its development strategy.


Amelia Brille Published by Amelia Brille TourMaG.com Editor
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