The Swiss Hotelplan Group will in future be headed by Laura Meyer. The manager is already a member of the board of directors and will succeed Thomas Stirnimann at the beginning of 2021. In future, he will assume a role on the Group's Board of Directors.
"I am delighted that we have found an ideal CEO for the Hotelplan Group. Laura Meyer has extensive digital and entrepreneurial know-how with international experience," says Fabrice Zumbrunnen, President of the General Management of the Migros Cooperative Association and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hotelplan Group. "Due to the serious consequences of the coronavirus, the travel industry is undergoing an unparalleled structural change towards digitalization. I am convinced that, thanks to her background of experience in this area, Laura Meyer will provide important new impulses for the future of the Hotelplan Group that are geared towards the needs of customers," says Fabrice Zumbrunnen.
Thomas Stirnimann has led the Hotelplan Group since November 2012 and has successfully developed the travel group over the past eight years despite constantly new challenges in the tourism business. "Under his leadership, Hotelplan Group and its various business units have not only moved closer to travel-loving customers, but have also remained on the road to operational success despite strong competition before the setback caused by the effects of the coronavirus," says Fabrice Zumbrunnen. "I would like to thank him very much for his many years of tireless commitment and am pleased that Hotelplan Group can continue to count on Thomas Stirnimann's extensive industry experience." Thomas Stirnimann will continue to lead the Hotelplan Group until the end of the year, pending the long-planned CEO change, and will then strengthen its Board of Directors from January 1, 2021.