The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Happy New Year to all our readers around the world. We hope that you had a restful and joyous holiday. The Travel Markets Insider team was able to take a needed break and spend wonderful time with family. In […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here As we rapidly approach the Holiday Season, our desks are inundated with end-of-year figures, many of which provide critical analysis and data for the travel retail industry. Today, Travel Markets Insider shares the busiest routes from OAG for 2024, an […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Philippe Margueritte new president of TFWA The biggest breaking news of the week took place this morning in Paris, where the TFWA Management Committee elected a new president for the Association—former Coty executive Philippe Margueritte assumed the role held by Erik […]

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 mostly focuses on Avolta, which has been winning new and extended contracts all over the world. Internationally over the past few weeks, the global travel retailer and F&B leader announced it has entered Saudi […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here A TMI SPECIAL REPORT Essence Corp adds dazzle to Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty launch in the Caribbean with Master Classes and Gala VIP Party in Barbados Superstar performer and business woman Rihanna has brought her smash hit Fenty […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA) held its 40th annual convention this week at the Omni King Edward Hotel in Toronto. Industry stakeholders came from across North America and as far away as Europe to continue to help the Canadian 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 Over the past several weeks, the travel retail industry was saddened by the deaths of some beloved industry legends. Long-time Dubai Duty Free Executive Vice Chairman Colm McLoughlin passed away late last month, a massive loss to the industry and […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here In Memoriam: Colm McLoughlin It is with immense sadness that we report on the passing of Colm McLoughlin, former Dubai Duty Free Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, who died in the UK yesterday following a short illness. […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here First, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey unveiled a new EWR Vision Plan that calls for the rebuilding of Newark Liberty International’s outdated, 40+ year-old Terminal B. PANYNJ is planning to repeat the success of the airport’s new Terminal A, which received numerous […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Despite the fact that both Michael and I picked up the prevailing “Palais Cough” in Cannes and were greeted by Hurricane Milton soon after we returned home (which luckily just skimmed our neighborhoods), the 2024 TFWA Conference & Exhibition was a […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Today’s lead story looks at Duty Free Americas owner Falic Group, who earlier this week  announced that it was accelerating its global expansion efforts as it embarks on a “bold new growth phase.” The company’s strategic plan includes entering new travel […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here What a week of breaking news. In one of the biggest stories of the week, Avolta’s Hudson and Dufry won the duty free/travel retail concession at New York’s JFK International Airport Terminal 6. This is the first of several very hotly contested tenders […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here BY THE NUMBERS The latest research from the World Travel & Tourism Council reports that the United States continues to be the “world’s most powerful” Travel & Tourism market, at least when it comes to the impact on the national economy. […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here . We wish everyone who celebrates it, a very enjoyable Labor Day! With the official end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere just days away, the travel retail industry is quickly gearing up for the 2024 TFWA Tax […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here . BY THE NUMBERS Air traffic continues to show healthy year-over-year gains, reports the latest IATA analysis, although not at the staggering rates that were seen post-pandemic when travel bans first began to be lifted. As a result of […]