Three senior executives at Tui Travel UK are to step down at the end of September and will not be replaced.
Customer director Tim Williamson, strategic planning director Neil Morris and IT director Keith Newman will leave and their responsibilities be shared among remaining members of a management board slimmed from 10 to seven.
The departures will accompany that of UK managing director Dermot Blastland, announced in early July, with Blastland also quitting the board on October 1.
Blastland’s successor Johan Lundgren has been shadowing the managing director role for some time as head of Tui Travel’s northern region.
He will head a board that comprises Thomson Airways managing director Chris Browne, distribution director Nick Longman, commercial director David Burling, communications director Christian Cull, finance director Colin McKinlay and the new director of human resources Martin Gash.
Williamson’s role will be split between Lundgren and Longman. Burling will take responsibility for aviation planning from Morris, and McKinlay will handle IT. The changes follow a strategic review of management roles by Lundgren.
Morris, Williamson and Blastland all held senior roles at First Choice – which merged with Thomson parent Tui to form Tui Travel in 2007 – as did Tui Travel group chief executive Peter Long, although Newman was not at First Choice.
However, Cull refuted suggestions that the departures represent a clear out of former First Choice executives.
He said: “This follows a strategic review of the board. The merger was a long time ago. Many people across the business have arrived since then and have no sense of there being two businesses. We don’t think in terms of Thomson and First Choice.”
It is understood Williamson is seeking another role within the group.