Airport food and beverage operator SSP has announced it will be entering the South American travel market for the first time after securing contracts with two of Brazil’s main international airports in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The agreement is a joint venture partnership between SSP and Duty Free Americas (DFA) that is worth […]
Latin America
First Brazil border shops could open before year end
Brazil may finally see the opening of its first duty free border stores in December, following the election of Jair Bolsonaro who will succeed Michel Temer as president on January 1. ASUTIL Secretary General Jose Luis Donagaray, in a press briefing held last week, says he expects one or two small operators could open the […]
400 aviation executives attend sold-out 2018 ACI-LAC Annual Assembly and Conference hosted by MIA
Some 400 aviation executives from through-out the Western Hemisphere attended the 2018 Airports Council International – Latin America & Caribbean (ACI-LAC) Annual Assembly and Conference that took place in Miami last week, hosted by Miami International Airport, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. MIA is the busiest gateway airport of the Americas, serving […]
LAC airports face capacity challenges as passenger traffic growth continues
As passenger traffic in the Latin America-Caribbean region continues to grow, Airports Council International (ACI) World and ACI Latin America-Caribbean have called for a whole-of-industry response to the forecast growth in demand for air services in the region. This call was made as the ACI Latin America-Caribbean Annual Assembly and Conference got underway this week in Miami. […]
3Sixty awarded the duty free contract for Costa Maya International Cruise Terminal
3Sixty (formerly known as DFASS) has been awarded a 10-year contract for the duty free concession at the International Cruise Terminal in Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico. The new contract with the ITM Group covers a 3,400 square foot full walk-through retail store located directly in front of the cruise pier, which should be operational in […]
Mexico’s new president to scrap $13 Billion Mexico City Airport Project
Mexico’s incoming President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador this week announced that he is stopping construction on the $13 billion Mexico City airport, which is already one third completed. According to Bloomberg News, Lopez Obrador scrapped the project after almost 70% of 1.07 million people who participated in a national referendum voted against the airport. The […]
Floripa launches bidding for commercial area of new Florianopolis terminal
Floripa Airport, the operator of Florianopolis International Airport in Brazil, released tender documents on Oct. 16 for retail, food & beverage and advertising concessions at the airport’s new passenger terminal. The commercial area will cover multiple categories over 4,000 square meters and includes 46 different packages. The new passenger terminal, four times larger than the […]
Legal problems for Duty Free World as LATAM terminates inflight contract
During the early part of last week, leading newspapers in Chile, Peru and Colombia reported that South America’s largest air carrier, LATAM Airlines, has unilaterally cancelled the airline’s duty free inflight concession, managed by Miami-based Duty Free World. TMI has tried unsuccessfully to contact both parties for confirmation, but we now believe that the story […]
Ron Cihuatan, El Salvador’s ambassador to the world
Ron Cihuatan, the first rum ever produced in El Salvador, is expanding its range of handcrafted rums as it grows its international business, including to travel retail. Licorera Cihuatan Vice President Juan Alfredo Pacas tells TMI that Ron Cihuatan takes its responsibility as El Salvador’s rum very seriously. “Ron Cihuatan began as a dream to […]
Low cost airlines boom in Latin America
by John Gallagher The development of low cost airlines in the Latin American aviation market has been a bit of a mixed bag. Brazilian airline Gol started operations in 2001 shortly after the expansion of the low cost model in North America and Europe in the late nineties. Many predicted a healthy future for low […]
Colon 2000 cruise port under redevelopment to become a major travel retail shopping destination
Tocumen International Airport is not the only major structure being improved in Panama. The Colon 2000 cruise terminal, located on the Atlantic side of the country at the entrance to the Panama Canal within what is billed as the world’s largest free zone, is undergoing a major upgrade that will include a massive rebuild and […]
Motta Internacional plans for expanded presence in Tocumen’s new Terminal 2 in Panama
Motta Internacional’s Attenza Duty Free, which won the third block of stores in Tocumen International Airport’s Terminal 1 duty free tender last year and one of the two blocks of stores up for bid for Terminal 2 this August, is also rolling out a fresh, updated new look for its new stores at the […]
DFA stores help transform Tocumen Airport
Panama’s Tocumen International Airport is going through a major transformation, driven in large part by the new stores recently opened by Duty Free Americas. The makeover is immediately visible as travelers pass through Tocumen’s main security checkpoint in Terminal 1where they are greeted by two brightly lit, welcoming Duty Free Americas stores sporting a […]
Motta Internacional and Duty Free Americas win duty free concessions for T2 at Tocumen International Airport
Motta Internacional and Duty Free Americas have each won a block in the duty free tender at Tocumen International Airport’s Terminal 2. The 10-year contracts cover the operation of multi-category duty free stores in Tocumen’s new terminal, which is scheduled to open in the first semester of 2019. The new terminal will increase capacity at […]
LVMH gives Givenchy’s Gentleman Eau de Parfum the Mega treatment
Givenchy Parfums celebrated the launch of its new Gentleman Eau de Parfum with Mega Events that invited shoppers to “Feel the Flow” across Latin America beginning in April. A reinvention of the 1970s classic Gentleman, the New Givenchy Gentleman proposes olfactory variations that define a new modern-day gentleman. Following the launch of the first Gentleman […]
