Munich, 25 September 2023 – The FTI GROUP, Europe’s third largest tour operator group, is in talks
with investors about injecting fresh capital to implement its corporate strategy. As already announced,
the FTI GROUP will invest the capital in the digital transformation of the company to further strengthen
the business. With the planned entry of an investor, the company also intends to terminate granted
Corona support measures.

As one of the leading companies in the German travel market, the FTI GROUP benefits from the
positive market development. For the current financial year, which covers the period from
1 November 2022 to 31 October 2023, the group expects a pleasing revenue result of around 4.1 billion
euros. Bookings for the upcoming winter season 2023/24 are today 26 percent above last year’s level.

_{About the FTI GROUP
With its numerous brands and subsidiaries, the FTI GROUP ranks third among all tour operators in Europe. It includes FTI Touristik as well as the short-term tour operator 5vorFlug, the car rental broker Drive FTI, the destination management company Meeting Point International, which is active at more than 40 locations worldwide, and the tour operator for promotional products BigXtra. Under the umbrella of the hospitality company Meeting Point Hotels, the company bundles its hotel brands Labranda Hotels & Resorts and the Design Plus Hotels, the Kairaba Hotels & Resorts, Lemon & Soul Hotels, Club Sei as well as the Meeting Point managed Hotels. TVG Touristik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH combines the franchise systems with the brands sonnenklar.TV Reisebüro, 5vorFlug and Flugbörse. Around 10,000 partner agencies distribute FTI products throughout Germany. Important sales channels are also the TV travel shopping channel sonnenklar.TV, an FTI GROUP partner, as well as the online B2B accommodation provider Youtravel. The consolidator FTI Ticketshop is responsible for the sale of scheduled flight tickets. In Austria, FTI Touristik is represented by a branch office in Linz. The subsidiary FTI Touristik AG, based in Basel, represents the tour operator in Switzerland. Since 2012, the French tour operator FTI Voyages has been part of the FTI GROUP. With FTI Reizen, the group has also been active in the Netherlands since 2016. The total of eight service centres, such as erf24 and travianet, handle numerous bookings for the FTI GROUP as well as external customers. The group, headquartered in Munich, employs over 11,000 people worldwide. More info at www.fti-group.com.}