TUI’s Russian Oligarch Turmoil and More Top Travel Stories This Week
Photo Credit: Alexey Mordashov, who recently resigned from TUI Group's supervisory board, meeting with students in 2013. Despite his resignation, he remains the company's largest shareholder. Flickr / worldsteel
Skift Take
In Skift's top stories this week, TUI Group's largest shareholder is a prominent supporter of Vladimir Putin, Expedia stops offering travel to and from Russia, and hotels and hostels set aside beds for Ukrainian refugees.
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World’s Largest Tour Operator TUI Has a Russian Oligarch Problem: Does TUI Group really want to be associated with a Russian oligarch who sits on its strategy committee and who is close to and allied with Putin during Russia's invasion of Ukraine? That sort of publicity could hammer the company's reputation and its customers won't take the news well.
Fallout From Mar
