The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here BREAKING NEWS The South American Duty Free Association – ASUTIL – today announced its new Board of Directors for 2024-2026. Enrique Urioste, President & CEO Latam & Carib at Avolta (formerly Dufry), has been elected President of […]
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Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 36
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The combined travel retail / food & beverage operation formed by the Dufry-Autogrill merger officially rebranded as Avolta last week, including trading on the Swiss stock exchange under the Avolta name and launching a website showcasing the new identity. Further enhancing the Group’s latest chapter — and […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 35
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Notice: Dufry shareholders have approved the change of the company name to Avolta AG. The approval came during an Extraordinary General Meeting held in Basel, Switzerland on Nov. 3, 2023. The company reports that a total number of 99,885,200 […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 34
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Anyone who is interested in connecting with the Cruise industry should consider attending the Seatrade Cruise Global event taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center on April 8-11, 2024. Seatrade is the world’s largest cruise event, with 10K attendees including 100+ […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 33
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here DATES TO REMEMBER: The 2024 TFWA World Exhibition & Conference will begin on Sept. 29 (Opening Cocktail). This will be the 40th Anniversary of the Tax Free World Association, so expect something special! The MEADFA Conference will take […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 32
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here With the TFWA World Exhibition just days away, the Tax Free World Association President Erik Juul-Mortensen anticipates that the premier event in the travel retail calendar will welcome at least as many visitors as in record 2019: “The record numbers we are […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 31
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here To begin this week’s news-filled issue, TMI adds our congratulations to those of the industry in honor of Aer Rianta International’s milestone 25th anniversary in North America. ARI first entered North America with a travel retail outlet at Mirabel in 1998, later moving to Montreal in 2004, […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 29
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here From a report issued this past week by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), it appears that the travel industry is recognizing the value that shopping has in the tourism mix. Shopping – or “retail tourism” — accounted for […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 28
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here It is not often that an international brand enters the U.S. market on the strength of its reputation in travel retail, but famed Spanish jewelry brand Majorica is doing just that. Renowned for its beautifully hand-crafted jewelry […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 27
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Among the developments in a very busy news week comes the welcome report that Global Business Travel is rebounding at a much faster rate than expected just a year ago, and should surpass the pre-pandemic level in 2024. See […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 26
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The biggest story of the week broke on Friday when TFWA announced that John Rimmer was stepping down from his role as Managing Director at the end of October. Super intelligent, unassuming, and incredibly effective, John is one of the all-around […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 25
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The top news in global travel retail last week was Dufry’s strong first half results, with revenues of the newly integrated company(Dufry & Autogrill) reaching US$6.5 billion, and organic growth up more than 30%. Story begins on page 1 […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 24
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Today’s issue of Travel Markets Insider is a combination of more exciting travel retail developments and several serious issues that will impact how the industry, and travel, may progress in the future. In our lead story, iconic travel retail […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 23
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The good news about recovery keeps coming in, with IATA’s latest air traffic report (for May 2023) showing that both North America and the Middle East have now surpassed 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Page 1. The UNWTO backs this up with the news that international tourism arrivals […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 22
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Today’s issue of Travel Markets Insider is looking at some of the exciting new retail concepts launching on land and sea, as well as a range of fun and innovative activations taking place in airports around the world. We […]
