"One stop shop" for UK customer facing roles

TUI Travel PLC, one of the world's leading leisure travel companies, announces it has changed the way it recruits for the majority of its UK customer-facing roles making it easier for potential recruits to find, apply and join the Group. Due to the sheer diversity of jobs and opportunities across the Company it has brought eight of its brands under one roof. The website tuitraveljobs.co.uk will now handle all recruitment for customer-facing roles in Thomson, First Choice, JCA, Sunsail, Travelbound, Crystal Ski, Ski Bound Holidays and Flexiski. The portal gives potential employees access to information about the specific brands and information on the 100 different customer facing roles that UK businesses are currently recruiting for.

Whereas previously, recruitment has been handled by the individual brand, TUI Travel has taken the decision to create this portal to provide a 'one stop shop'. This will show the breadth of choice when researching and applying for new opportunities, whilst ensuring a seamless application experience.

The businesses between them are looking to recruit more than 1,500 people for over 100 different job roles across nine different countries for summer 2014. TUI Travel has already opened the application for summer 2014 for the most popular roles, such as overseas customer advisors and childcare, with the aim of getting all 1,500 staff on resort by 1st April next year.

Jacky Simmonds, Group HR Director at TUI Travel explained, "This change will mean recruitment for UK roles at many TUI Travel businesses are now housed under one roof. This includes not only overseas roles, but also airline, retail and call centre opportunities. Our current and prospective employees will have the opportunity to move around the brands or roles within head offices.

"The benefit to our current employees is that they can easily move within the Group and develop an exciting lifelong career within TUI Travel. This is mutually beneficial to both our staff and customers, as employees will have a greater understanding of the business as a whole."

Due to the phenomenal demand, TUI Travel will be a launching a smart phone and tablet-friendly version of the website in October.

Enquiries:

Sophie Lister or Pema Seely
Hudson Sandler
Telephone: 020 7796 4133

NOTES TO EDITORS

TUI TRAVEL PLC

TUI Travel PLC is one of the world's leading international leisure travel groups operating in approximately 180 countries worldwide. It serves more than 30 million customers in over 31 source markets. Headquartered in the UK, the Group employs approximately 54,000 people and operates a pan-European airline group consisting of 141 aircraft.  The company is organised and managed through three business Sectors: Mainstream, Specialist & Activity and Accommodation & Destinations. In the financial year ended 30 September 2012 TUI Travel had revenues of £14.5bn and an underlying operating profit of £490m.

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