The first border duty free shop in the Brazilian state of Paraná –under the name of Sky Duty Free– is due to open within a matter of weeks. So far, following the approval of legislation in Brazil permitting duty free stores in 33 cities, the only store openings have been in the state of Rio […]
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Brazil confirms increase in Border duty free allowance
The Brazilian Ministry of Economy has officially confirmed that the duty free allowance for travelers entering Brazil via a land border will increase from $US300 to $US500 from January 1 2020. Ordinance No 601 confirming the new allowance has already been published in the State Gazette. This measure follows on from a previous announcement on October15, […]
Inaugural ASUTIL Border Conference examines new Brazilian opportunities
The first Latin American Border conference welcomed 170 registered delegates at the Sheraton Porto Alegre last week, who gathered to discover details of how the new land border duty free stores in Brazil will operate. The conference was jointly organized by South American duty free association ASUTIL and CEFSU, the Chamber of Uruguayan Free Shop […]
SSP opens its first food and beverage units in Brazil
SSP Group, in a partnership with Duty Free Americas, has opened its first outlets at Brazil’s two main international airports, Rio de Janeiro Tom Jobim International Airport (RIOgaleão) and São Paulo International Airport (GRU Airport). The new units are the first to open under a joint venture partnership between SSP and DFA, following the win of […]
Duty free allowances to increase in Brazil
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s Twitter announcement that the Brazilian government will confirm new duty free allowances within the next few days came as no surprise to Latin American duty free industry observers. The current allowances have been in place since 1991 and over the last few months there have been several calls to bring them […]
Dufry signs new contract and expands in Brazil’s Florianópolis International Airport
Dufry has signed a new contract to expand its presence at the Florianópolis International Airport, in Brazil, which is managed by Flughafen Zürich AG. The new contract includes two duty free and one duty-paid shop totaling 650 sq meters of additional sales space in the new airport terminal, which will be opened in October 2019. […]
Dufry officially opens first border duty free shop in Brazil
Dufry officially opened its first Brazil duty free border shop on August 22. The store is located in Uruguaiana, one of the most important cities in the South of Brazil, at the border to Argentina. With a retail space of 850 sqm, the shop offers an assortment of prestige international brands similar to those seen […]
Brazil authorizes two more border stores
An additional two duty free stores have been authorized to open by the Receita Federal, the Brazilian Customs Authorities. Emporio Duty Free, owned by JR Correa & Cia and situated in Barra do Quarai (Sister town of Bella Union in Uruguay) and New York Comercio Importacao-Exportacao located in Uruguaiana are the two new members of […]
Latin America’s big economies falter: Brazil, Mexico and Argentina all contracting in first quarter
The International Monetary Fund cut its outlook for global growth to the lowest rate since the financial crisis in its latest outlook issued in April. The world economy will grow 3.3 % this year, down from the 3.5 % the IMF had forecast for 2019 in January, according to the latest World Economic Outlook. World trade, which had been growing at about 5%, expanded by 3.8% last year and is forecast to rise 3.4% in 2019. Latin America is particularly hard hit, […]
SSP DFA Brazil to open restaurants at Salvador Bahia Airport
A new partnership between SSP and Duty Free Americas (DFA) called SSP DFA Restaurantes Brasil Ltda will be opening seven high-quality restaurants and food and beverage outlets at Salvador Bahia Airport in Brazil. Under the new joint venture, a number of international and local brands will open at the airport. The new deal is […]
The State of São Paulo, Brazil, evaluating PPP opportunities for 20 regional airports through IOS Partners
International economic development consulting and financial advisory firm IOS Partners has been awarded a major multi-airport master planning consultancy to evaluate the opportunities for private-public partnerships for regional airports in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Under the agreement, IOS Partners will focus on rationalizing State participation in the regional airports, and identify and compare […]
South American duty free sales struggle as regional recovery stalls
The duty free business in the Mercosur countries has continued to struggle in the first four months of this year, with expected improvements in Argentina and Brazil stalled, likely until the end of the year. ASUTIL Secretary General José Luis Donagaray told media in a webinar this week that the industry does not expect to […]
First Brazilian border duty free store could open by the end of the month
Brazilian businessman Marcos Lemos has confirmed to Travel Markets Insider that his company expects to open the first duty free shop in a Brazilian border town at the end of February/beginning of March. This store – under the façade of “Caraballat Free Shop” — will be the first to open in Brazilian territory since the Brazilian government […]
Chinese tourism in Brazil increases and it becomes easier to get a visa
The Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau reports that the number of Chinese tourists arriving in Brazil has been increasing every year, and reached 61,000 last year. According to data from Embratur, the government agency responsible for promoting tourism in Brazil, China advanced four positions in the overall ranking of countries sending visitors to Brazil. Nevertheless, […]
SSP forms JV with DFA to enter South America with two new contracts in Brazil
Airport food and beverage operator SSP has announced it will be entering the South American travel market for the first time after securing contracts with two of Brazil’s main international airports in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The agreement is a joint venture partnership between SSP and Duty Free Americas (DFA) that is worth […]
