The TUI Group has announced its key figures for the 2021 financial year. According to the report, the group achieved sales of 27 million euros with cruises, which is 445.6 million less than in the 2020 financial year.

The TUI Group owns three cruise brands: Germany-based TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and the British Marella Cruises.

TUI Cruises had 1,227,000 passenger days in 2021, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises 114,000 passenger days and Marella Cruises 153,000.

The group stated that TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises have been operating a sub-fleet since July 2020. This was made possible by Germany’s decision to allow cross-border travel to EU countries and the Schengen area since summer 2020. Britain, on the other hand, did not allow cruise lines to resume until May 2021, almost a year later, which affected Marella.

The average daily rates for TUI Cruises in 2019 (the last full year of operation before the pandemic-related break) were 132 euros, 514 euros for Hapag-Lloyd and 124 British pounds for Marella, a little less than 174.641 and 149 euros, respectively.

TUI’s cruise segment also reported an adjusted EBIT loss of EUR 277.5 million (loss of EUR 322.3 million in the previous year, including impairments of EUR 150 million).

“Taking into account the impairments of the previous year, the operating loss reflects an entire year of the sub-activities of TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and Marella, which were only operated in the last quarter of the financial year, compared to the previous year, the five months of normal operations before the Pandemic, “wrote the group.

According to the report, occupancy rates for TUI’s cruise brands were between 39 and 45 percent in the 2021 financial year, with some destinations still having an element of the limited occupancy requirements over the course of the year.

The TUI Group announced that fourteen ships from the total of 16 fleets (including the new Hanseatic Spirit expedition class) were in service on September 30, 2021.