BUZZ-Travel stocks: TUI leads losses on worst day for sector this year on Tunisia, Greece

** Travel stocks taking a bruising, led by a >10% drop in volume from German tour operator TUI following hotel attack in Tunisia & as Greece edges closer to a default

** Stoxx 600 Travel & Leisure index down 3.1%, biggest one-day drop since early December; fellow tour operator Thomas Cook (Xetra: A0MR3W - news) second-top sector faller, down 6.7%

** Tour cos evacuated thousands of foreign holiday makers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a beach hotel in an attack claimed by Islamic State

** Tour operators Thomson & First Choice, owned by TUI (LSE: TUI.L - news) , said they had c.6,400 customers across Tunisia at the time of the attack, including several of the people killed & injured

** Britain has warned further Islamist attacks in Tunisia possible

** Meanwhile, Greeks woke up to shuttered banks, closed cash machines & a climate of rumours and conspiracy theories on Monday

** Among airlines, Air France-KLM (Other OTC: AFLYY - news) down 3.8%, IAG 4.5% weaker, easyJet down 3.2% & Ryanair off 3.5% (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : tricia.wright1.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)