GAMECHANGER: How Peter Long, Joint CEO of TUI, changed the game of the leisure industry.

Today’s fast-paced and more globally interconnected business environment creates the need for leaders who not only make significant improvements to their business, but are capable of re-engineering the fundamentals of how a business or a whole industry runs. Stanton Chase, as a global leading executive search firm, work with these game changers on a daily basis.

The GAMECHANGERS series of Stanton Chase presents these leaders, their history and how they became a game changer.
In the first video of this series, Nicholas Wylde, Managing Director of Stanton Chase London talks to Peter Long, Joint CEO of TUI Group, the largest tourism company in the world.

Peter Long, Joint CEO of TUI Group and Nicholas Wylde, Managing Director of Stanton Chase London, first met in 1996, when Nicholas placed Peter as Managing Director for First Choice Holidays, which later merged into TUI. In September 2007 Peter Long was appointed a member of the TUI AG Executive Board and CEO of TUI Travel PLC. He transformed TUI Travel into the world’s largest leisure and tourism business serving over 30 million customers each year, offering holiday experiences in more than 180 destinations. The group has annual revenues of €19 billion and operating profit of €870 million.

In this exclusive interview with Nicholas, Peter Long explains his turn around strategy.

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