{"id":12688,"date":"2013-05-23T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/hapag-lloyd-cruises-appoints-new-ceo\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:49:00","slug":"hapag-lloyd-cruises-appoints-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/05\/hapag-lloyd-cruises-appoints-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapag-Lloyd Cruises appoints new ceo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Karl J. Pojer, ceo of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seatrade-insider.com\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/7e0bf47d438efaf5f69e6fc4c9ed4a54_M.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>Karl J. Pojer, ceo of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>    <span>                <\/span>              <span><br \/><\/span>                  <\/div>\n<p>Karl J. Pojer has been appointed the new ceo of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, the German luxury and expedition cruise operator and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TUI AG. <\/p>\n<p>With immediate effect, 58-year old Pojer is taking charge of the cruise line&#8217;s business development, operations, marketing, sales and distribution, product management, tourism as well as corporate communications. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Wolfgang Fl\u00e4gel, who took over the management of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises when long standing md Sebastian Ahrens left last June, remains in charge of finances, HR and IT. <\/p>\n<p>The new ceo has been working with TUI since 1996, initially as md of wholly-owned subsidiary Robinson Club GmbH. In 2003, he took charge of the TUI Hotels &#038; Resorts division, which manages the World of TUI hotel subsidiaries throughout the world. Currently with 248 hotels and 157,000 beds, TUI Hotels &#038; Resorts is the biggest holiday hotelier in Europe. Prior to joining TUI, Pojer worked for various hotel companies including Kempinski Hotels, Sheraton Hotels as well as Pestana Hotels, Resorts &#038; Casinos. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Karl J. Pojer is one of the most experienced operations experts in the vacation industry. He will continue the reorientation which has already started at Hapag-Lloyd Cruises,\u2019 commented Friedrich Joussen, ceo of TUI AG. <\/p>\n<p>Pojer described Hapag-Lloyd Cruises as \u2018a strong brand full of tradition that we want to further develop in a careful way but in keeping with the times\u2019. The brand currently charters five ships: Bremen, Columbus 2, Europa, Europa 2 and Hanseatic. Columbus 2 (ex Insignia) will be returned to Oceania Cruises next year.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl J. Pojer, ceo of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises Karl J. Pojer has been appointed the new ceo of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, the German luxury and expedition cruise operator and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TUI AG. With immediate effect, 58-year old Pojer is taking charge of the cruise line&#8217;s business development, operations, marketing, sales and distribution, product management, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-12688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hapag-lloyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}