The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   The news that U.S. President Donald Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 early Friday morning was devastating on many levels, but it had an immediate impact on the beleaguered cruise industry. Cruise line representatives and the White […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   This week’s issue delivers more evidence that the industry is slowly emerging from lock-down as it examines new ways to move forward in a world still defined by the coronavirus pandemic. CANADA/FDFA By […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   INDUSTRY The Duty Free World Council organized and hosted an informative and broad-ranging webinar that took place on Thursday. More than 850 registered for the event, moderated by TFWA Managing Director John Rimmer. TMI will present highlights of the session in […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   The biggest news of today is, of course, the announcement that the 2021 Summit of the Americas will be held as a virtual event in the beginning of April, and will be organized in partnership […]

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 presents a very mixed bag of news in this issue. A highlight of the week is the opening of a new travel retail store by 3Sixty Duty Free & More at Terminal C of the Dallas Fort […]

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 are Walking.” Those are the words of ASUTIL Secretary General José Luis Donagaray speaking at the latest webinar hosted by South American Duty Free Association ASUTIL earlier this month. Although regional experts like Airports Council International – […]

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- Edrington reorganizes As we go to press, Edrington Global Travel Retail (GTR) has announced a restructuring of its organization, effective Sept. 1. Key functions will now split between two hubs in Singapore and Glasgow. Marketing […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. The biggest news this week is the return of the first major cruise line to service. MSC Cruises began sailing its flagship MSC Grandiosa yesterday, August 16, and its MSC Magnifica will begin sailing again in the Mediterranean as 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.   Today’s issue of TMI features some worrisome reports on aviation recovery. In the latest ASUTIL webinar, two Latin America-based experts– Rafael Echevarne, Director General of ACI-LAC; and Gonzalo Yelpo, Legal Director and General Counsel of ALTA, the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association […]

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 are very pleased to be starting off this issue of Travel Markets Insider with the positive news that Aer Rianta International has re-opened The Loop store at YUL Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, which had been closed since March 24 due to […]

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 is our most positive in two months, even as the confirmed number of cases in the United States surges past three million and hard-hit Brazil passes 1.7 million cases […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   This week’s issue of Travel Markets Insider focuses on a slew of airport and aviation developments in the Americas, beginning with the petition by several U.S. industry associations (The International Association of Airport Duty Free Stores; the […]