The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Travel retail giant Dufry Group turned in encouraging first quarter results, reporting organic growth of 144.5% over the first quarter of 2021. EMEA delivered significant progress over the year ago period—with organic growth up nearly 284%. The Americas also turned in very solid results—up […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here In the travel retail industry’s first live gathering in Asia since the pandemic began, TFWA reports that its Asia Pacific Live networking event was a “huge success.” See overview on page 1. Back in the Americas, IAADFS- the International Association of Airport & Duty Free […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here DUFRY Travel retail giant Dufry further consolidates its strong footprint in South America with two new duty free and duty-paid concession contracts in Salvador, Brazil. Page 1. BY THE NUMBERS The numbers are pouring in and so far they all point […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here SEATRADE CRUISE GLOBAL Recovery, resilience, cooperation and sustainability were the major themes of the 2022 Seatrade Cruise Global event that took place in Miami Beach last week. Although Seatrade had held an abbreviated event last September, this was the […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS This issue of Travel Markets Insider focuses on last week’s Summit of the Americas and the global cruise industry, which is having its own gathering in Miami this week at Seatrade Cruise Global. The travel retail industry basked in a surprisingly positive […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS The travel retail industry will celebrate the first in-person gathering of 2022 on Sunday evening, when the IAADFS Summit of the Americas commences in Palm Beach, Florida with a very welcome opening cocktail. The International Association of Airport […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The news in today’s issue shows continued momentum for recovery in travel retail. In the lead story, TMI reports on the latest update from the UN World Tourism Organization reports that Europe and the U.S. are leading the strong start to 2022 in terms of […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The travel world continues to reopen, following two years of pandemic lockdowns. In North America, Canada announced it is removing its COVID test requirements at the border, a move that the FDFA says will lead land border stores on the road to recovery. Page 1. […]

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 is all about Numbers and People. Two of the most influential travel retail executives of the past two decades –Julian Diaz of Dufry and Olivier Bottrie of The Estée Lauder Companies — have announced their retirements, paving the way […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here BREAKING NEWS: TFWA cancels live Singapore show as Covid-19 concerns re-emerge; reviews other options In a significant, but disappointing, development announced today, Tax Free World Association (TFWA) has cancelled its in-person Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference, which had been scheduled to take […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here In this special issue of the Travel Markets Insider newsletter, publisher Lois Pasternak speaks with IAADFS President & CEO Michael Payne about the 2022 Summit of the Americas taking place at the Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida on April 10-13. […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Last week’s DFA Charity Golf Tournament was a huge success – not just for the $375,000 that it raised for a very deserving Miami-based charity, but also for the opportunity it provided for many in the industry to gather […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here Many travel retail suppliers who do business in the Americas will be gathering today at the annual DFA Charity Golf Tournament in Miami. For many, this may be the first live industry gathering since the pandemic first began. In fact, hundreds […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here In Memoriam. The Caribbean, along with tourism officials the world over, mourn the death last week of Dr. Jean Holder, widely regarded as the “Father of Regional Tourism in the Caribbean.” Dr. Holder was not only the first Secretary General […]

The Travel Markets Insider newsletter is attached to this letter as a PDF file. To open the PDF file, please click here The first tourism numbers of the year are in from UNWTO, showing just moderate growth in 2021 compared to 2020, which was the worst year on record for tourism. Nevertheless, travel still remains far below pre-pandemic levels, and the disruption caused […]