News reaches The Moodie Blog of a couple of charity initiatives that honour two very different individuals, one a brave boy who is going through the battle of his young life; the second a well-known industry executive tragically no longer with us. I have written previously about Ollie, the 9 year-old nephew of Sara Stevens
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A tale of two cities… and the epoch of incredulity
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it
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Flying Foxes defy gravity by staying up
What an appropriate moment to post this Blog from Suvarnabhumi, ‘the airport of smiles’, on a holiday weekend in the UK that witnessed a sporting triumph for (and plenty of smiles from) the airport’s master commercial concessionaire King Power International Group. Yesterday, UK football team Leicester City Football Club, owned by an offshoot of King Power
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From Singapore to Singha pour
This comes to you from The Moodie Report’s interim Phuket bureau. I’m here to help an old (well he’s my age so that truly counts as old) Kiwi friend with his excellent new online Phuket tourism guide, What’s On-Phuket (http://www.on-phuket.com/) while clearing my head from the stresses of recent months and planning the next stage of
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DFS conveys a sense of wonder at Changi Airport
Talk about the perfect way to raise your average transaction value… Meet Jenny Tan of DFS Group, who earlier this week sold a DFS-exclusive range of 28 vintages of Château Mouton Rothschild, the great First Growth Bordeaux, to a single passenger. Expect Jenny to make many more spectacular sales. For that First Growth offer is
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Will the real Morgan Freeman please stand up?
Ok, it’s official, Jaya Singh is Morgan Freeman. Close your eyes while the APTRA President and Mondelez World Travel Retail Regional Director is speaking on stage and I swear you will hear what sounds for all the world like the dulcet tones of the American star of Along Came a Spider, Now you see me,
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Bringing it all back home
Welcome to The Moodie Report’s Interim Singapore Bureau, 47 floors up at the Marina Bay Sands. I, like many members of the travel retail community, am in Singapore for TFWA Asia Pacific, arguably the most vibrant event on the travel retail calendar. It’s nice to be on the move again having been grounded by a