The wretched, long-discredited ruling (as in they make up the rules as they go along) Tory party stumbles from fiasco to fiasco, epitomised in our industry of course by their stupendously inane decision to scrap tax free shopping.
Airports
The power of four: Destination Doha assumes a new dimension
A Trinity-plus (or quaternity) collaboration if you like – airport, retailer, brand and Chef – is born.
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Travel
Wedding bells in Singapore and watch this space in Doha
It was thoughtful of Martell to put up a sign explaining why for once I was away from my screen.
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Events
Home away from home in Hong Kong and reflections on the Singapore show
I can see our apartment but two red lines on a testing kit have been ensuring I cannot actually enter it since my return from France on Monday.
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Travel
Going green in Grasse and finding solace with Cloudy Bay in Discovery Bay
An apoplectic older man at the check-in counter muttered away not so merrily in what sounded like a whole lexicon of Finnish curse language to an unamused check-in assistant, culminating in the universally understandable “No more Finnair!”
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People
Frontline excellence at Changi and Helsinki airports
As I went to set up my Interim Helsinki Bureau in the Finnair lounge I realised I had left my mouse (as in laptop accessory not rodent) on the plane. But help was close at hand,
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Events
Buzzing like Korsakov’s bumblebee in Singapore
It’s great to be back in a city that shares the same nocturnal habits as my website.
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Beauty
How two chance meetings helped shape a unicorn – the Augustinus Bader story
“The fact I was ready to sleep under a bridge meant he probably thought there must be something behind this project because the guy was giving up the last thing he had.”
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Events
Duty free but not free of duty in Taiwan
The sense of national and social duty, fundamental to the company’s ethos of the last 28 years, has never burned more brightly nor more urgently.
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Airports
Stocking up in Hong Kong and making a return to Taipei
It looks like a full flight for the 70-minute journey to Taipei. Just the way it used to be. And the way, hopefully it will be for a long time to come.
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Events
High times in Haikou
Talk about ‘The website that never sleeps’; this week it has never looked like getting a single wink.
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Travel
Humming in Hong Kong and riding the waves in Wanning
I have written so many words about this beautiful island province since the pandemic began and to be unable to visit due to the crisis has been an immense professional frustration. Now the waiting is over.
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Events
From Nobel Prize to Noble Panacea
British actress Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) is a Global Ambassador while Christy Turlington has just been named Noble Panacea’s new ‘Fundamental Changemaker in Residence’. Clearly not a brand that does things by halves.