Hapag-Lloyd announces new chief executive
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TUI AG has appointed Karl Pojer as chief executive of its cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten.
Pojer will be responsible for business development, operations, marketing, sales and distribution, product management tourism and corporate communications. The line’s current managing director, Dr. Wolfgang Flagel, will stay in charge of finance, human resources and IT.
Pojer has been at TUI since 1996, starting as managing director of Robinson Club and moving to head the company’s hotel and resorts division.
“Karl Pojer is one of the most experienced operations experts in our industry. He will continue with the reorientation that has already started at Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten,“ said TUI chief executive Friedrich Joussen. The TUI AG Executive Board thanks Pojer for his many years of successful work at TUI Hotels & Resorts.
“I am pleased that after decades of working in the business and holiday hotel industry on land I can now apply my experience at sea. Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten is a strong brand full of tradition that we want to further develop in a careful way but in keeping with the times,“ said Pojer.