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MoonC wrote:As far as the website is concerned, you can always select your branch of the group from TUI.com. Just click on the flag on the upper-right corner.
Polot wrote:MoonC wrote:As far as the website is concerned, you can always select your branch of the group from TUI.com. Just click on the flag on the upper-right corner.
That said, TUI could do better job redirecting you to the correct branch based on IP address, or have TUI.com be a splash page were you select the site suitable for your needs.
PatrickZ80 wrote:Seems like they do have some kind of location detection. When I open Tui.com here in the Netherlands I'm being taken to the Dutch site. However I can switch to other sites by clicking on the flag in the upper right corner. However, not sure how the site reacts if you're from a country they don't have a site for.
XLA2008 wrote:the question is why paint TUI.com on the side of all the aircraft from the entire group when the website automatically takes you to TUI Deutschland...
oldannyboy wrote:This is terrible re-branding exercise that screams vengeance from day one. Doing away with the Thomson name for a blunt schizoid acronym like TUI is bad, but doing the same to a classy name with a heritage (Britannia, that is) was inexcusable. What is the big deal of keeping separate names for separate markets?
At least Thomas Cook grew a pair and reinstated the Condor brand for German flyers.
LTH wrote:oldannyboy wrote:This is terrible re-branding exercise that screams vengeance from day one. Doing away with the Thomson name for a blunt schizoid acronym like TUI is bad, but doing the same to a classy name with a heritage (Britannia, that is) was inexcusable. What is the big deal of keeping separate names for separate markets?
At least Thomas Cook grew a pair and reinstated the Condor brand for German flyers.Its just far more expensive to maintain dozens auf different brands. As you might have noticed TUI is shifting a lot of planes around during the different seasons between their airlines and for the winter period over to Sunwings in Canada.
PatrickZ80 wrote:XLA2008 wrote:the question is why paint TUI.com on the side of all the aircraft from the entire group when the website automatically takes you to TUI Deutschland...
That's just the thing, it doesn't. It takes you to the website of your country of origin. I'm in the Netherlands and it takes me to the Dutch website. Not sure why you're taken to the German website, but I suppose that's got something to do with you and not with the site.
I admit a splash screen would be better, but it's not as bad as you describe.
XLA2008 wrote:PatrickZ80 wrote:XLA2008 wrote:the question is why paint TUI.com on the side of all the aircraft from the entire group when the website automatically takes you to TUI Deutschland...
That's just the thing, it doesn't. It takes you to the website of your country of origin. I'm in the Netherlands and it takes me to the Dutch website. Not sure why you're taken to the German website, but I suppose that's got something to do with you and not with the site.
I admit a splash screen would be better, but it's not as bad as you describe.
I'm not the only person that gets directed to the German website....
Virginblue4 wrote:XLA2008 wrote:PatrickZ80 wrote:
That's just the thing, it doesn't. It takes you to the website of your country of origin. I'm in the Netherlands and it takes me to the Dutch website. Not sure why you're taken to the German website, but I suppose that's got something to do with you and not with the site.
I admit a splash screen would be better, but it's not as bad as you describe.
I'm not the only person that gets directed to the German website....
I'm in the UK. Today, I visited tui.com from two different computers, at two different locations and both times it took me to the Thomson website. So there must be something wrong your end?
oldannyboy wrote:LTH wrote:oldannyboy wrote:This is terrible re-branding exercise that screams vengeance from day one. Doing away with the Thomson name for a blunt schizoid acronym like TUI is bad, but doing the same to a classy name with a heritage (Britannia, that is) was inexcusable. What is the big deal of keeping separate names for separate markets?
At least Thomas Cook grew a pair and reinstated the Condor brand for German flyers.Its just far more expensive to maintain dozens auf different brands. As you might have noticed TUI is shifting a lot of planes around during the different seasons between their airlines and for the winter period over to Sunwings in Canada.
Well, I don't really think it is. It just needs stickers with different names on the outside of an aircraft. The basic livery (however ghastly) could remain the same.
At the end of the day it's all about how much value you put into a brand. Britannia Airways was a great, internationally-recognized brand. Thomson was a brand in the UK...and a pretty huge one. TUI might be a brand in the German market, but to the outside world (with the exception of maybe Northern Europe) it remains a meaningless acronym, even when you know how large and powerful it is....Touristik Union Internazional??