Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way” –Viktor Frankl (neurologist, psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor) , So now you know the story I mentioned a couple of weeks back
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Tequila’s new Mexican wave crests in travel retail
“One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.” “Tequila: a Spanish word meaning ‘I don’t remember doing that…’” What do you think of when you hear the word ‘tequila’? Shots? Slammers? Seriously debilitating hangovers? If so, time to reconsider a) how you think and b) how you drink, because at the top end at least, tequila
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Swans culled by the fantastic Mr Foxes
Foxes never quit. At least not when they’re Leicester City Football Club foxes. As regular readers will know, Leicester City (known fondly by their fans as the Foxes) is an English premiership football club owned by an offshoot of Thai travel retailer King Power International (Group Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha is the club’s Chairman and Senior Executive
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Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms? Farewell to a fallen friend
To a fallen companion. La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats. I Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. II Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
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Farewell to the housewives’ favourite
There are two stories I did not want to write this year. The second (completely unrelated to this one) will come after next Monday. Many readers know what I am talking about. But, alas, write them I must. For now, let me deal only with the first. Today we announced the forthcoming departure of Deputy Chairman
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Wednesday Morning 3a.m.
The title of that lovely Simon & Garfunkel song (and album) came immediately to mind this morning as the most unwelcome of alarms woke me at the very unlovely hour of 3a.m. If it’s Wednesday (or any day with a Y in it) it must be a French air traffic controllers’ strike. And so indeed
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Now that’s what I call Nice news to wake up to
From a reader (a leading global travel retail director) after The Moodie Report’s Breaking News Alert this morning about Aelia, Dufry and Relay France capturing key retail concessions at Nice Airport. “Moodie San , after all that had happened this week don’t put Dufry and Aelia in the same sentence entitled ‘Breaking News!!’ Blimey I
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Tornado time in travel retail
I’m not travelling today. Sorry, yes I am. April Fool’s. Got you didn’t I? Of course I’m travelling. The day’s got a Y in it hasn’t it? This year has flown by like a tornado ripping across the deep south of the USA. And in travel retail terms more seems to have happened in the