Portrait of Christoph Debus

Management

9 January 2025

New line-up on the Executive Board of the DERTOUR Group: Christoph Debus becomes CEO

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Cologne/Frankfurt, 09.01.2025. With effect from March 1, 2025, Christoph Debus will become CEO of DERTOUR Group.

Debus will lead the international tourism group with over 10,000 employees as Chairman of the Executive Board of DERTOUR Group together with Dr. Ingo Burmester, CEO Central Europe, Patrick Lambertz (CFO from January 1, 2025) and Leif Vase Larsen, CEO International. Debus will also be a member of the extended REWE Group Management Board team as Divisional Director for Travel and Tourism at REWE Group – similar to those responsible for the strategic business units (such as PENNY, Lekkerland, toom, BILLA…). In this new function, he will report directly to the CEO of the REWE Group, Lionel Souque. The Management Board of REWE Group is thus emphasizing the strong role of the tourism unit and strengthening its management team in its operational and strategic clout.

Christoph Debus (53) has more than 30 years of experience in the mobility and travel industry. Most recently, he has been Group CFO of Flix SE since 2022. He started his career at Roland Berger and subsequently held positions including CFO of Condor Flugdienst GmbH, CCO and COO of Air Berlin, CEO of Thomas Cook PLC Group Airlines and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Serviceware SE. After three years as Managing Director of Condor Airline Group, he moved to Flix SE as Group CFO in 2022.

I am delighted that with Christoph Debus we have been able to gain an extremely dynamic and strategic international leader as CEO for the DERTOUR Group. We are thus optimally positioned to tackle the ambitious goals for our tourism division with full force. We are thus further strengthening the DERTOUR Group on its successful path and emphasizing its strategic importance for the REWE Group. With his diverse and relevant expertise, Debus is very familiar with the market environment in Travel and Tourism and will continue to successfully drive forward the ambitious growth course of our Travel and Tourism division in close cooperation with Dr. Ingo Burmester, Patrick Lambertz, Leif Vase Larsen and the entire (management) team, explains Lionel Souque, CEO of the REWE Group.

About DERTOUR Group

  • DERTOUR Group has its head office in Cologne, Germany, and is REWE Group’s travel and tourism division. As one of Europe’s leading travel groups, DERTOUR Group encompasses more than 130 companies and employs over 10,000 people in 16 European countries. Every year, millions of guests travel with one of the Group’s tour operators or specialists. DERTOUR Group includes tour operators such as DERTOUR, ITS, Meiers Weltreisen, Kuoni, Helvetic Tours, ITS Coop Travel, Billa Reisen, Koning Aap, Apollo, Exim Tours and Fischer, as well as around 2,000 travel agencies (such as DERTOUR, DERPART, Kuoni, Exim, and Fischer, plus franchises and partners), the hotel brands Sentido, Aldiana, and ananea and the online travel agency Prijsvrij Vakanties. The DERTOUR Group also offers on-site support: The company runs an agency network with 71 offices in 31 travel destinations. The staff in the destination agencies assist the guests of the DERTOUR Group from their arrival at their holiday destination until their departure. For more information, go to www.dertour-group.com.

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Marion ten Haaf

Director Group Communications and Spokesperson at DERTOUR Group

+49 69 9588 1600 [email protected]

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