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trivago N.V.: Trivago Collaborates with TUI to Offer New Activities Feature
more than Countries
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY - April 27, 2021 - trivago, a leading global accommodation search platform, announced today a collaboration with TUI Group, the world s leading tourism group, to provide trivago users with direct access to more than 55,000 excursions, activities and tickets. As trivago s activities partner, TUI will power the new Activities section on the trivago website.
trivago users will have direct access to a diverse portfolio of experiences, from guided tours and tickets for world renown landmarks and attractions, such as the One World Observatory, Colosseum and Harry Potter Studios, to unique activities, including sunset stadium climbs and double-decker bus dining. The majority of experiences will have immediate email confirmation and can be cancelled up to 24 hours before they start, offering peace of mind when booking.
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Tour operator TUI is relying on the UK, its biggest market, to lead a bounceback this summer, and predicts growth for its Musement activities app, following a dismal 2021 first quarter.
For the three months to Dec. 31, 2020, TUI’s fiscal first quarter, the group reported an underlying loss of $1.21 billion. In that quarter it received another loan, worth $2.18 billion. So far, its bailouts come to almost $6 billion.
For the next quarter it estimates it will burn through $302 million to $363 million per month, and it has $2.5 billion in the bank to see it through until the summer.
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What happens when a legacy tour operator, Germany-based TUI Group, acquires a Milan-based tours and activities startup, Musement, and tries to get digital street cred in growing the business?
The result is TUI Musement, which rebranded from TUI Destinations in September, and has become an important if unheralded European player in tours and activities, although not necessarily a thorn in the side for well-funded European market leader GetYourGuide.
In his first interview since the rebranding, and the maiden in-depth conversation with the press since becoming CEO of TUI’s tours and activities business unit in April 2018, David Schelp thinks the brand isn’t getting its due.
TUI Group focuses on Tours and Activities
20 January 2021
TUI, the world s leading tourism group, is strengthening its commitment to Tours & Activities across all distribution channels.
A total of over 170,000 excursions, activities, tickets and transfers are now available to partners, travel agents and customers in more than 140 countries. The global Tours & Activities market will start to recover as early as 2021, and the previous record year of 2019 will be eclipsed by 2023, said
TUI Musement CEO David Schelp. Up until now the market has been characterised by a multitude of small, very local suppliers – a large brand like TUI can provide security and reliability as a common platform.