The 2024 ASUTIL Conference held last week in Bogotá, Colombia at the Hilton Bogotá Corferias perfectly reflected the city where it was held: magical, relevant, and filled with Latin flair. A maximum capacity 307 people attended the TFWA-managed event. Travel Markets Insider had a front row seat for the week and presents highlights of the sold-out conference […]
Essence Corp has taken full advantage of the unique opportunities that opened for it with the establishment of the Brazilian duty free border business in 2019. The Miami-based beauty distribution company has so far added 20 new doors from the Brazilian border to the 50 or so outlets it supplies on the Uruguay border, plus […]
Duty Free Holdings will be opening the first duty free store at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California on May 30, 2024. Under the name of La Boutique, the woman and minority-owned business will feature its “Click and Collect” program, allowing customers to pre-order their favorite items online at laboutiqueairports.com and pick them up at the […]
William Grant & Sons has debuted the first ever activation for Hudson Whiskey at JFK Terminal 4 with DFS. The New York whiskey is being featured at the New York airport where it is highlighting its partnership as the “Official Bourbon of the (New York) Mets.” Last August, Hudson whiskey announced it was teaming up […]
“I think we’re at a really exciting time for the Pernod Ricard Travel Retail business,” Greg Ford, General Manager Travel Retail Americas at Pernod Ricard tells Travel Markets Insider. TMI’s Michael Pasternak sat down with Ford and Aisling Tobin, Head of Marketing Travel Retail Americas, at the 2024 IAADFS Summit of the Americas, just days […]
A little over a year after Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits acquired Miami- based WEBB-Banks, the new combined organization has delivered on its promise, creating a new wine and spirits powerhouse in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, as well as the travel retail and cruise sector, WEBB Banks Chief Operating Officer Jose Castellvi tells […]
In the three years since Juan Gentile created Distribution Spirits Company (DISC), the company has stayed true to its founding vision, and has consolidated and strengthened its presence in the Caribbean market and duty free sector. Gentile, who worked for Edrington for almost 20 years, most recently as Senior Vice President, Managing Director Americas Travel […]
Despite its rich portfolio of brands, the L’Oréal Group realized that there were markets around the world that were under potentialized and the company recently added a new business unit to its structure designed specifically to build select brands in these areas. The world’s leading beauty group has launched L’Oréal International Distribution, familiarly known in […]
Operating from a modest kiosk at Melbourne Orlando Airport (MLB) in Florida since 2019, Core Plus Duty Free opened a 500-square-foot store in MLB in January 2023 as part of the official inauguration of the airport’s Terminal Renovation and Expansion. The small airport, which serves Central Florida (home of Disney World in Orlando), handled 747,000 […]
Not only did Rouge Duty Free open in Trinidad in 2023 – its 9th Caribbean island location – but the luxury and beauty retailer is about to take a giant step forward in Grenada, as it expands its charming flagship in the renowned Port Louis Marina into six new outlets. The Rouge stores will be […]
L’Oréal invites travelers to step into the world of Lancôme’s Rose Agora at JFK-T1, where it says that “beauty meets innovation.” Inspired by the iconic Lancôme Rose, L’Oréal Travel Retail Americas and International Shoppes have unveiled a “breathtaking” refreshed in-store design with rose gold and gold accents and welcoming organic curves. “As we open the […]
Dior’s Travel Retail Americas team has partnered with International Shoppes to open the first La Collection Privée stand-alone boutique in the United Sates, bringing the brand’s “most exquisite high perfumery collection” to the travelers who will fly or transit from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, Terminal 1. This boutique […]
U.S. whiskey has rebounded well across the Americas this year as the purchasing habits of traveling consumers become increasingly more adventurous, writes Joe Bates. The U.S. whiskey category enjoyed a very strong period of recovery in the duty free Americas market last year as international travel in the region rebounded from COVID-19, and consumer […]
ARI celebrated the 25th Anniversary of its business in North America at an exclusive “cocktail dinatoire” event hosted at 1769 Distillery in Montreal on September 15. The event was attended by many partners and local supporters of the ARI business in the region, including airport partners, local suppliers with long-standing relationships, executives from ARI, senior […]
DFS Group reopened its iconic store in the heart of Waikiki, Hawaii on September 14. Celebrating more than 60 years in the islands, DFS says its Waikiki store is set to redefine the world of luxury shopping for both locals and visitors, offering them a curated selection of more than 100 renowned brands in beauty, […]
