TUI Group’s Awkward Company History

TUI Group: the mining company that got into tourism okay TUI Group you know the natural way you run a business during that thing we don't want to talk about we may have given phosphorus oxychloride to somebody Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi and unfortunately

A young man in glasses and a tweed cap plays an awkward interviewer and answers questions as TUI Group, explaining that the German travel company began as a mining business and was involved in weapons-related chemical sales before investing in Russia and Ukraine. The joke comes from presenting TUI’s disturbing historical associations with cheerful corporate small talk, while the increasingly shocked expressions and photos of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi make the punchline absurd. The clip ends with a TikTok outro. EN: A young man in glasses and a tweed cap plays an awkward interviewer and answers questions as TUI Group, explaining that the German travel company began as a mining business and was involved in weapons-related chemical sales before investing in Russia and Ukraine. The joke comes from presenting TUI’s disturbing historical associations with cheerful corporate small talk, while the increasingly shocked expressions and photos of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi make the punchline absurd. The clip ends with a TikTok outro.

Okay, TUI Group, you're a German travel company that started out as a... Mining company? Yes, it is exactly what we did. You know, it's a natural way you run a business. Um, no. Also, you're a German company that was founded in the 20s. I take it you... Yaa, we made things that go boom for those bad guys during that thing we don't want to talk about. Okay, but that was the last time you made weapons of mass destruction, right? Uh, well, we may have given phosphorus oxychloride to somebody. That's one of the base chemicals in serine gas. Who did you give these to? Oh, you know, just Saddam Hussein and Momar Gaddafi. Why? Yeah, that's when we got out of the mining game. We were like, you know what, we're not good at picking people to sell things to. And unfortunately, it hasn't gotten much better. What do you mean? Well, in 2009, we made a whole bunch of investments in two countries we thought would be really fun to travel to together. It was Russia and Ukraine. We've since sold off the Russian part.

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