The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The International Association of Airport and Duty Free Stores (IAADFS) has announced that more than 100 participants from seven organized teams have already confirmed their support for the Hollywood 5K Walk/Run and Kite Fly on March 14. This fundraising event, […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here OPERATOR NEWS The biggest news of the past week was the announcement that New York-based International Shoppes was awarded the 10-year duty free and specialty retail contracts at Hawaii’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) and Kahului Airport (OGG), the main […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here We start today’s issue of Travel Markets Insider with a very illuminating report from m1nd-set that analyzes the so-called “income illusion” regarding Low Income Buyers. m1nd-set defines LIB‘s as slightly younger than the global average, with a higher percentage of Millennials, driven by digital […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The biggest news in travel retail over the past few days continues to come from DFS. LVMH has confirmed that it will be “gradually” exiting from DFS, the precursor and once undisputed leader of luxury travel retail shopping. The […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here There is a saying in the Caribbean that when the U.S. sneezes, the islands catch a cold … or worse. It appeared that the Caribbean might suffer a full-blown’ flu epidemic’ at the start of the year, […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here There is a saying in the Caribbean that when the U.S. sneezes, the islands catch a cold … or worse. It appeared that the Caribbean might suffer a full-blown’ flu epidemic’ at the start of the year, […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Greetings to all our readers around the world. We hope that you are all getting ready for a joyful Holiday. In today’s issue of Travel Markets Insider we start with more major news from airport operator ASUR. The Mexico-based company has completed […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here We start this week’s issue of Travel Markets Insider with the critically important – and very welcome news – that the members at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) fourth Meeting of the Parties (MOP4) for Illicit Trade Protocol have agreed that the duty free industry […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! Today’s special holiday edition spotlights two exclusive stories that you will only find in Travel Markets Insider. First, TMI is delighted to present an in-depth, One-on-One interview with Avolta COO Jordi Martin-Consuegra, who has seen the explosive growth […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here We begin today’s issue of Travel Markets Insider with the very sad news of the passing of yet another travel retail figure. Doug Andrews, who held positions at companies ranging from Giorgio Beverly Hills to Movado, died two weeks ago […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here This week’s issue of Travel Markets Insider presents two exclusive interviews from companies that are making a difference at the point of sale in travel retail, in the Americas and worldwide. First, TMI’s Michael Pasternak met with Roy Summers, head of Global Travel […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here UPDATE: JAMAICA Estimates of the damage from Hurricane Melissa, a brutal Category 5 storm that battered Jamaica and other nearby islands in the Caribbean last week, continue to rise. Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Hurricane Melissa caused damage equivalent to nearly […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here BREAKING NEWS Hurricane Melissa, a category 5 storm of historic proportions, slammed into Jamaica yesterday with winds of 185 miles per hour, causing widespread devastation. The extent of the damage is not yet known.  The storm was one of the […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here In today’s newsletter, Travel Markets Insider is very proud to feature an in-depth interview with Tax Free World Association President Philippe Margueritte, who speaks with TMI’s Michael Pasternak about his goals for the Association and his view of the future of the industry. […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The whirlwind of Cannes may be over, but news post-show is unabated. With just shy of 8,000 visitors (a record 7,999 to be exact), TFWA reports that attendance at this year’s hugely successful TFWA World Exhibition & […]