Independent Auditor's report to the Members of TUI Travel PLC

We have audited the financial statements of TUI Travel PLC for the year ended 30 September 2009 set out here. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the preparation of the TUI Travel PLC group of companies (the Group) financial statements is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as adopted by the EU. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the preparation of the parent company financial statements is applicable law and UK Accounting Standards (UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with sections 495, 496 and 497 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company’s members, as a body, for our audit work for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Respective responsibilities of Directors and Auditors

As explained more fully in the Directors’ Responsibilities Statement set out here, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s (APB’s) Ethical Standards for Auditors.

Scope of the audit of the financial statements

A description of the scope of an audit of financial statements is provided on the APB’s web-site at www.frc.org.uk/apb/scope/UKP.

Opinion on financial statements

In our opinion:

• The financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Group’s and of the parent company’s affairs as at 30 September 2009 and of the Group’s loss for the year then ended;
• The Group financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with IFRSs as adopted by the EU;
• The parent company financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
• The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006; and, as regards the Group financial statements, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation.

Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion:

• The part of the Directors’Remuneration Report to be audited has been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006; and
• The information given in the Directors’Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following:

Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in our opinion:

• Adequate accounting records have not been kept by the parent company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
• The parent company financial statements and the part of the Remuneration Report to be audited are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
• Certain disclosures of Directors’remuneration specified by law are not made; or
• We have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Under the Listing Rules we are required to review:

• The Directors’ report in relation to going concern; and
• The part of the Corporate Governance report relating to the Company’s compliance with the nine provisions of the June 2008 Combined Code specified for our review.

Oliver Tant
(Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of

KPMG Audit Plc, Statutory Auditor
Chartered Accountants
8 Salisbury Square
London
EC4Y 8BB
30 November 2009