The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   International Shoppes‘ stunning new stand-alone Beauty Store at Terminal 1 in New York’s JFK International Airport provides nearly three times the space the travel retailer had available for the category previously – and shoppers are responding […]

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 big news of last week was Duty Free Americas‘ huge win of two of the three blocks of duty free space tendered by Panama’s Tocumen Airport, with Motta Internacional’s Attenza Duty Free retaining […]

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 the lead story in this week’s double issue of Travel Markets Insider, Dufry announces that it intends to expand its cruise business and has created the Dufry Cruise Services center of excellence, based 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.   Lead story. Brazil’s airport privatizations continue to move forward. Most recently, Fraport AG signed the concession agreements with the Brazilian government for managing and developing Forteleza and Porto Alegre airports. Full story on Page 1.  AIRPORT TECHNOLOGY   […]

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 is very honored to lead off this week’s issue with an in-depth interview with Motta Internacional CEO Erasmo Orillac. The respected executive discusses the critically important duty free tender at Panama’s Tocumen […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. To begin, congratulations to our friends at PPI Group, custom publishers and producer of Porthole Cruise Magazine, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. To mark the milestone, the Group has set […]

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 is all about airports-with reports of both new duty free concession contracts and exciting new shop concepts and openings throughout the region. In our lead story, Aer Rianta 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.   As we go to press, the Trump administration is expected to announce how it will implement its modified travel ban. And yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the laptop ban on airlines will be […]

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 special analysis of breaking news, TMI’s Cuba expert Larry Luxner examines how President Trump‘s crackdown on U.S. travel to Cuba could devastate island entrepreneurs – not to mention the U.S. companies that were poised 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.   An emotional ASUTIL board- past and present – concluded the final stand-alone conference of the South American Duty Free Association last week with a dedication to all the directors who had participated […]

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 big breaking news story out of Miami, Edrington has purchased WEBB‘s share of Edrington WEBB Travel Retail Americas, the joint venture partnership it formed with Andy Consuegra’s World Equity Brand Builders in 2015. TMI understands 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.   Travel retail powerhouse Dufry continues to expand in the Americas, this week announcing a seven-year extension to its contract in partnership with Hudson Group at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport, and unveiling  a major new duty […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link.   Travel Retail and tourism in the region are showing signs of recovery. Dufry Group released its first quarter 2017 earnings results, showing organic growth at a very healthy 7.2% increase. Dufry […]

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 big news that greeted the travel retail industry this morning was Dufry‘s announcement that Chinese travel conglomerate HNA Group had acquired a 16.79% stake in the Swiss travel retailer.   According to […]