(Alliance News) - TUI AG on Tuesday said it was focused on driving profitable growth and improving cash flow as it reaffirmed financial guidance.
For financial 2025, the Hanover-based multinational leisure, travel and tourism company reiterated guidance to increase its underlying earnings before interest and tax by 7% to 10% from EUR1.30 billion in financial 2024.
TUI said its guidance is based on delivering further sustainable growth in Holiday Experiences and transforming the Markets & Airline business and is supported by the encouraging performance in the first quarter.
In addition, TUI expects revenue to increase by 5% to 10% year-on-year from EUR23.17 billion in financial 2024.
TUI said travel & tourism market fundamentals remain strong and consumer demand resilient with market growth continuing to outpace GDP growth.
Holiday Experiences is delivering further profitable and sustainable asset-right growth in differentiated content, serving strong global markets, it added.
The comments came ahead of TUI's Capital Markets Day on Tuesday.
Shares in TUI closed 2.6% higher at EUR7.40 in Frankfurt on Tuesday.
In its cruise business, TUI said it was exploring future options, including re-fleeting. In parallel it continues to explore partnership options for Marella Cruises.
In Markets & Airline, TUI is targeting an improvement in margin to more than 3% in the mid-term and thus above pre-pandemic levels.
TUI said it remains firmly committed to its capital allocation framework, focusing on driving profitable growth and improving cash flow, whilst maintaining disciplined capital investment and targeting a further improvement in balance sheet metrics.
It plans to define a shareholder return strategy by the end of 2025.
Chief Executive Sebastian Ebel said: "The goal is to strengthen the synergies between the various business areas, offer customers more products and significantly increase the number of customer contacts throughout the year."
"The next steps of the transformation offer new potential, and we will become more efficient, more profitable, economically stronger," he added.
By Jeremy Cutler, Alliance News reporter
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