Richard Vogel, CEO of the Hamburg based premium cruise market line TUI Cruises, has decided to leave the company and assume a senior position in a company outside the TUI group, TUI Cruises said in a statement.
“We have built TUI Cruises to a successful and profitable enterprise. With Mein Schiff 3, we will introduce our first newbuilding into service. For me personally, this is a good point in time to chart a new course,” Vogel said in the statement.
Mein Schiff 3 is a 99,300 gross ton ship that will officially becommissioned on Thursday. Vogel will leave the company at an unspecified time this year, TUI Cruises said.
The company is 50/50 owned by TUI AG, the German travel to shipping group and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, the Miami based company that is the second largest cruise shipping company in the world.