TUI Travel profits boosted by return of package holiday When questioned how much corporation tax the company would pay this year, having paid none last year, My Long said it would be "in the order of £100m." TUI, which operates Thomson, has focused on cutting costs and selling holiday packages directly to customers, with online sales now making up more than a third (35pc) of total sales, as customers increasingly use their tablets and mobile phones to book their holidays. And customers are swapping their sangria for tequila, as demand picks up for long-haul holidays, in particular to Cancun in Mexico, Florida and recently-launched Thailand. The tour operator has also benefited from adding customers in the UK and Scandinavia as Europe emerges from recession. However, there was a drop in customers from the core eurozone countries, with a 7pc decline in Germany, the company's biggest market by customers, and 19pc in France. Performance for the 2013/14 winter season is forecast to be in line with the group's expectations, the company said. It added that it had made changes to its offering amid unrest in Egypt. To date 60pc of the overall mainstream winter programme has been sold. As a result of the unrest in Egypt we have actively remixed the programme and reduced our capacity to Egypt which now accounts for less than five percent of the total programme," the company said in a statement. Shares in the company slipped in trading yesterday, down 1.5pc to 378.3p. TUI Travel also announced that it was increasing its final dividend by 17pc to 9.75p a share, which will be paid on April 9 2014.