Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen and welcome to the 2014 Trinity Forum. My name is Martin Moodie, Founder & Chairman of The Moodie Report and I’m delighted to be here with you in the great city of Bangkok… Hold on… I am in Bangkok, but where is everyone else? After a brilliant onboard experience with
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The Moodie Blog: Live from 35,000 feet onboard Etihad Airways
Welcome to The Moodie Report Interim Etihad Airways Bureau. As I begin this Blog I am 803 miles out of London, en route to Abu Dhabi, Bangkok and Hong Kong. We’re flying at 35,000 feet at a ground speed of 909k per hour. And I, dear readers, am blogging live. It’s the first time I’ve
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Resurgent England put boot into Ireland’s Grand Slam hopes
A beautiful spring Saturday in south-west London, wonderful company for the afternoon, the spectacle of two teams brimming with attacking intent, plus some great scores. Not much to complain about really…well, apart from the result. Over the past decade we Ireland fans have grown used to beating England both in London and at home in
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Readers’ competition results and why Irish eyes weren’t smiling
Our competition asking readers to pick the result of Saturday’s rugby international between Ireland and England attracted a record number of entries, particularly from travel retail’s sizeable Irish contingent. To a man and woman, the latter all chose Ireland to win, as well as supplying some magnificent replies (some of them repeatable) to our two
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Ireland v England rugby: Win US$1 million and the world’s most exclusive DVD!
This weekend’s rugby showdown between age-old rivals England and Ireland has all the makings of a classic. Can unbeaten Ireland continue on its winning ways and beat the auld enemy? Can England, so soundly beaten by the All Blacks in the Autumn series, bounce back from a narrow loss against the French (backed up by
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Hold the front page! (Until the fourth model graces the catwalk)
A ringside seat: The Moodie Report had the pleasure of seeing the Matthew Williamson AW14 collection first-hand In over a decade of experience as a technology, beauty and travel retail writer, I’ve come across (and respected) many an embargo, writes Brands Editor Sarah Lysecki. But I’d never heard of the ‘fourth runway model embargo’ until
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‘Tearing up the rule book’: Abu Dhabi’s big Trinity statement
Turning a new page: Abu Dhabi Airports’ evocative display of how traditional tender convention should be consigned to the shredder Last Sunday, 9 February, may yet come to be seen as a milestone day in our industry’s evolution. Then, as it hosted the cream of the world’s travel retailers and many leading brand owners to
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Aiming high in Abu Dhabi
The Moodie Report interim bureaus down the years have had some pretty spectacular views and this has to be right up there with the best of them. It’s early morning in Abu Dhabi and from my 7th floor window at the Fairmont Hotel I have a stunning outlook towards the magnificent Sheikh Zayed Mosque (below). I arrived into the ever-burgeoning UAE capital
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A Day in the Life of a travel retail publisher
“I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade” – A Day in the Life, John Lennon and Paul McCartney People often ask me: “What’s a typical day in your working life?” The short answer is: “There isn’t one.” But that doesn’t really do justice to the question, so