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DFA Golf
The Travel Markets Insider team looks forward to seeing many of you at the 2024 DFA Charity Golf Tournament, which will take place this coming Thursday, Feb. 8. Once again, the event sponsors — the Falic Family Foundation and Duty Free Americas – are partnering with the Miami Dolphins football team to raise money to support leading-edge research and treatments at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
All monies raised by the event will be matched dollar for dollar by the Miami Dolphins football team, a long-time supporter of the Sylvester Center. Last year the DFA Golf event raised a record one million dollars for the charity. DFA worked closely with the Dolphins Challenge Cancer (DCC), the fundraising initiative of the Miami Dolphins Foundation, with each organization made a $500,000 commitment to Sylvester.
Duty Free Americas Vice President Spirits & Wine Jonathan Bonchick, who has been a major force organizing the DFA Golf events since the beginning, expects a capacity crowd at the DFA event.
The Miami football team has been a major donor to the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center through its Dolphins Challenge Cancer (DCC) organization since 2010, and has raised more than $52.5 million for the hospital. Its main event is the annual Dolphin Challenge, which has become the #1 fundraising event in the NFL in support of local life-saving cancer research.
TRADE SHOWS
Cosmoprof launches in Miami to a huge welcome
The inaugural Cosmoprof North America Miami event was a resounding success, and underscored the need and hunger for a true beauty event in the region, especially one that catered to the whole of the Americas, including travel retail.
The event, held January 23-25 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, reported an impressive 19,000 attendee visits, with visitors representing 113 countries, alongside a diverse array of over 700 exhibitors from 40 countries. There was an impressive showing from the duty free side of the business as well, reports TMI’s Lois Pasternak. See full story on pages 1 & 2, Inside Insider.
BY THE NUMBERS
UNWTO. Following a strong 2023, international tourism is well on track to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according to the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer released in January. Read details on page 3.
AT THE POINT OF SALE: THE MACALLAN
The Macallan Colour Collection splashes into Global Travel Retail
The Macallan has launched an extensive program of vibrant experiential activations for its new travel exclusive Colour Collection at key travel retail locations globally. This significant investment, which includes pop-ups, high-profile promotions and an out-of-home (OOH) campaign, underlines the brand’s commitment to the global travel retail channel and focus on driving awareness and recruitment through impactful storytelling. Read more on page 4.
International Shoppes opens interactive boutique for
The Macallan Colour Collection at JFK Terminal 1
Taking a deeper look at one of the experiential activations for the newly launched global travel exclusive The Macallan Colour Collection, TMI spotlights the immersive pop-up at JFK Terminal 1 created through a partnership between Edrington Global Travel Retail and International Shoppes will remain open through the end of March 2024.
The nearly 800 sq ft. JFK Terminal 1 Macallan pop-up space opened in September 2023 and is fully personalized to create a memorable encounter of The Macallan Colour Collection. Michael Pasternak reports. Page 5.
