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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 delivers a lot of new numbers, all solidifying the ongoing post-pandemic recovery in travel, albeit at a more moderate pace in some places than we have been seeing recently. For one, leisure domestic travel […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here “It’s Back” touted all the banners announcing the return of the stand-alone ASUTIL Conference in 2023, which took place last week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And it certainly was back, complete with its trademark networking sessions and memorable, culturally-enhancing […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Air travel is nearly back to normal—at least for this Memorial Day weekend in the United States. Data released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) indicates that some 2.6 million passengers were screened on Thursday, which is the highest number since the […]

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 reports on the optimistic prognosis ahead for the industry as the Asia Pacific region continues to recover from the pandemic, as presented by TFWA President Erik Juul-Mortensen at last week’s TFWA Asia Pacific Conference & Exhibition […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here This special issue of Travel Markets Insider reports on Breaking News from the U.S./Canada border, which is finally opening fully after three years of closure and restrictive border measures. The Frontier Duty Free Association has been working […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here THE NEWS This week’s jam-packed issue of Travel Markets Insider sadly starts off with the news of the death of yet another pioneering icon of the travel retail industry, who had a profound impact on how jewelry is sold onboard […]