for1314, the intriguingly named consortium formed earlier this summer by travel retail industry veterans Christoph Henkel, Denz van der List, and Adil Raïhani, has taken the next step with its portfolio of “sophisticated, affordable technology” by introducing Density, a scalable people counting system. Designed to measure real-time space occupancy, not just entrance/exit count, Density has […]
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Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 24
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 is our most positive in two months, even as the confirmed number of cases in the United States surges past three million and hard-hit Brazil passes 1.7 million cases […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 23
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’s issue of Travel Markets Insider focuses on a slew of airport and aviation developments in the Americas, beginning with the petition by several U.S. industry associations (The International Association of Airport Duty Free Stores; the […]
IAADFS joins U.S. airport concessions groups seeking $5 billion in financial relief
The International Association of Airport Duty Free Stores (IAADFS) co-authored a letter to the U.S. Congress with the Airport Restaurant and Retail Association (ARRA), the Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC), the National Parking Association (NPA), and the American Car Rental Association (ACRA), asking the U.S. Congress to provide financial relief for duty free, travel retail, […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 22
The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this post as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click on this link. BREAKING NEWS: FDFA cancels 2020 convention Canada’s Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA) today took the difficult decision to cancel its annual convention set to take place in Toronto in November 2020. Toronto is currently restricting […]
UNWTO: 100% of global destinations now have COVID-19 travel restrictions
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) today reported that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted all destinations worldwide to introduce restrictions on travel, which represents the most severe restriction on international travel in history. No country has so far lifted restrictions introduced in response to the crisis. Following up on previous research, the latest data from the […]
DFWC: Key WHO meetings on tobacco rescheduled until 2021
The World Health Organisation today announced the postponement of key meetings on illicit trade and tobacco control until November 2021. The DFWC has expressed serious concern at proposals that will be discussed at these meetings, including the allegation that the duty free industry is a source of illicit trade. The WHO has said that its ultimate […]
Travel Markets Insider Newsletter Vol. 21 No. 14
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 COVID-19 pandemic is taking a devastating toll on the travel retail businesses globally and in this week’s issue two of the industry’s major players, Dufry (along with its Hudson division) and Gebr. Heinemann detail steps they are taking to survive and […]
World Class Brands and Travel Retail Global partner to create “relevant” Protect-Aid travel disinfectant kit
Travel retail companies World Class Brands and Travel Retail Global have collaborated to create a new concept for disinfectant and protective products called Protect-Aid(tm). The Protect-Aid Kit contains two pairs of latex powder-free gloves, two disposable face masks, one 50 ml bottle of hand sanitizer with Aloe Vera and 10 disinfecting surface wipes. Both the […]
WTDC: adapting for today, preparing for tomorrow
WTDC, Miami’s family-owned Foreign Trade Zone company that specializes in logistics for spirits for the duty free/travel retail and cruise industries, has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a three phase plan designed to keep its employees safe and the supply chain uninterrupted. WTDC is categorized by Florida and Miami-Dade County as an essential company […]
The eerie stillness of empty airports: A Photo Essay
The figures cited in the article on this page are staggering and nearly incomprehensible. Air passenger traffic at these three major U.S. airports are reported to be down between 90 and 95% from the same period last year – and they are not alone. For an idea of what this looks like in reality, TMI […]
Airport Boards approve financial relief plans for concessionaires and business partners at Miami, Orlando and LAWA
Airports in Miami and Orlando, Florida and Los Angeles, California have granted some level of financial assistance to their concessionaires, business partners and airlines in response to the unexpected and steep declines in passenger traffic due to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Miami In Miami, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved a $64.8 […]
Simon Roffe departs from Halewood Wines & Spirits
Halewood Wines & Spirits has confirmed a number of changes to its business structure as a result of the “significant financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.” As well as changes throughout its International markets, the company has also confirmed Simon Roffe, Managing Director Global Travel Retail, will leave the business at the end of April. […]
Inaugural Virtual Travel Retail Expo announced by The Moodie Davitt Report
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary solutions and the current pandemic assailing the world is certainly spurring the travel retail channel to search for creative new ways to do business. The Moodie Davitt Report, for one, has announced plans for a Virtual Travel Retail Expo, to be held on September 9-11, and then on into October, […]
ASUTIL preparing for “the day after”
South American Duty Free Association ASUTIL continues to work diligently with its members and other industry partners looking for ways to ease the financial burden on retailers as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that is decimating travel and travel retail. “People are afraid to travel. The world has stopped. The industry has stopped,” said […]
