TUI Group aircraft

Travel Data Analytics

TUI Group UK - Big Data Specialist

Built analytics-ready data pipelines for travel, customer, flight, and financial datasets across multiple source systems. The goal was to turn fragmented structured and semi-structured data into reliable insights for business decisions.

Role Big Data Specialist
Domain Travel Analytics
Focus Cloud Data Platform

Solution Design

Unified analytics pipeline for multi-source travel data.


Hadoop, Spark, cloud storage, relational databases, and NoSQL stores were used to build scalable ingestion, transformation, and analytics workflows.

Source Systems
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Sqoop + HDFS
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Hive Warehouse
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Spark Processing
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Python Analytics
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Business Insights

Problem

TUI had many operational systems storing customer, flight, and financial data in different formats, making analytics slow and fragmented.

  • Structured and semi-structured data sources
  • Large-volume operational datasets
  • Need for faster decision support

Engineering

Built scalable data processing workflows using Hadoop ecosystem tools, Spark, SQL, Python, MongoDB, and AWS S3.

  • HDFS, Hive, and Sqoop ingestion
  • Spark processing with Scala
  • Python analytics and visualization

Outcome

Enabled faster analysis of travel operations and customer behavior, helping the business identify new opportunities and improve operating efficiency.

  • Improved analytical readiness
  • Better business visibility
  • Reusable data foundation

Technology Stack

Big data tools used for storage, processing, and analytics.


Hadoop HDFS Hive Sqoop Spark Scala Python SQL MySQL MongoDB AWS S3
Multi-Source Customer, flight, financial, and operational data
Cloud AWS S3 based storage and analytics support
Spark Distributed processing for large datasets
Insights Analytics-ready data for business decisions