The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Special Report: Starboard Cruise Services and Carnival Cruise Line hosted a first-of-its-kind media tour of the brand new Fun Shops onboard the new Carnival Horizon, at Pier 88 in New York City last week.  Read how Starboard and the Fun Ships have […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Happy Independence Day to all of our US readers and Americans all over the world! This week, Travel Markets Insider looks at some really exciting and ground-breaking innovations in regional airports. Dufry is giving sense of place […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. BREAKING NEWS: Erik Juul-Mortensen has confirmed that he will not put his name forward for re-election as TFWA President when his current mandate ends in December 2018. Juul-Mortensen has been a member of the TFWA Management Committee since the […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   TMI starts with two important stories from Airports Council International today.   ACI World reports that first quarter passenger air traffic remains strong, with good results in the Americas. North America turned in growth of 4.8%, well above its […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Today’s issue of Travel Markets Insider begins with a heavy emphasis on cruise-related news–even as our colleagues in Europe are meeting at an industry-wide conference examining the topic, organized by DFNI.   Since we are lucky […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   With the release of the 13th annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking by WPP‘s marketing and brand consultancy Kantar Millward Brown this morning, TMI is presenting a special report on the Luxury and Personal Care (Beauty) categories, as well as a […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Samuel Kauffmann. Always the ultimate gentleman, Samuel was a long-time Brasif executive and a co-founder behind South American Duty Free Association ASUTIL, as well as a friend […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. Reports from Singapore at the close of this year’s TFWA Asia Pacific Show are very positive, beginning with an upbeat State of the Industry overview from TFWA President Erik Juul-Mortensen at the opening of […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. Reports from Singapore at the close of this year’s TFWA Asia Pacific Show are very positive, beginning with an upbeat State of the Industry overview from TFWA President Erik Juul-Mortensen at the opening of […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. We send our greetings to the many in the industry who are spending the week in Singapore at the TFWA Asia Pacific Show, along with wishes for safe travels and a most successful event. […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. Breaking News: As we get set to send out this issue of TMI, we received notice that JFKIAT, the operator of Terminal 4 at JFK International Airport in New York, has named Roel Huinink as its new CEO. Huinink will replace Gert-Jan […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Congratulations to Edrington Travel Retail Americas for a spectacular effort to raise funds to help rebuild Puerto Rico. The Edrington TRA team, together with friends, family and industry colleagues, held a 100-mile bike relay from […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Thank you to all who attended the WiTR networking cocktail event in Orlando during the Summit of the Americas, and to all those companies who donated so generously to our raffle and silent […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   As the new year progresses, some major personnel changes are taking place in the travel retail channel.   It is with sadness that we learn that Andreas Fehr is retiring from Mondelez World Travel Retail after 24 […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. As the new year progresses, some major personnel changes are taking place in the travel retail channel. It is with sadness that we learn that Andreas Fehr is retiring from Mondelez World Travel Retail […]