The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   In a key news story that broke today, Panama-based Top Brands International announced that it has acquired Neutral Duty Free, the largest duty free chain in Uruguay. No financial details were released. With this acquisition, Top Brands surges 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 ranges from the Mercosur to Canada, with several stops in between. In news that broke last Friday, the European Union and the countries in Mercosur— Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – signed […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   TFWA has announced that former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair — certainly a high profile player in global politics — will be the keynote speaker at this year’s World Exhibition & Conference 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.   In an issue chock full of wide-ranging news, TMI starts off with the welcome announcement that the first two Brazilian border stores have been authorized to open by Brazil’s Receita Federal. TMI will run additional information on this breaking […]

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 Financial Times has declared this the dawn of the Asian Century, said TFWA President Alain Maingreaud, in his first address as President to the TFWA Asia Pacific Conference earlier this month. Maingreaud went on to say that […]

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 start this week’s letter with the very sad news that the travel retail industry has lost another one of its pioneering founders.   Israel Marmol, once one of the largest and most […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Many in the travel retail industry are arriving today in Singapore to attend the TFWA Asia Pacific Conference and Exhibition. We wish you all safe travels and a very successful event in this dynamic area […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   A bustling crowd of morning passengers at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport helped celebrate the grand opening of the first 3Sixty Duty Free & Morebranded airport store last week. The 1200 sq. foot Charlotte location is […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   More than 30 million passengers are forecast to sail on a cruise ship this year, reported industry trade organization CLIA — Cruise Lines International Association — last week during the 2019 SeaTrade Conference […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   WOMEN IN TRAVEL RETAIL ORLANDO NETWORKING EVENT   Many, many thanks to all the women who attended the 2019 WiTR meeting in Orlando during the Summit of the Americas. It was one 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.   WOMEN IN TRAVEL RETAIL ORLANDO NETWORKING EVENT   You are welcome to join us even if you have not RSVP’d as of today.    Calling all women attending the Duty Free and Travel […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   WOMEN IN TRAVEL RETAIL ORLANDO NETWORKING EVENT   Calling all women attending the Duty Free and Travel Retail Summit of the Americas.   Please make plans to attend the annual WiTR Networking cocktail […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   WOMEN IN TRAVEL RETAIL ORLANDO NETWORKING EVENT   Calling all women attending the Duty Free and Travel Retail Summit of the Americas.   Please make plans to attend the annual WiTR Networking cocktail […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   WOMEN IN TRAVE RETAIL ORLANDO NETWORKING EVENT   Calling all women attending the Duty Free and Travel Retail Summit of the Americas.   Please make plans to attend the annual WiTR Networking cocktail […]

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 the news is in the numbers and research findings.   Destination Canada reports that tourism arrivals hit a record high for the second year in a row, even as air arrivals from […]