Let’s not flip-flop in our industry’s commitment to sustainability. Let’s focus on business for good, not just for growth. Let’s show our soul with some sole. Some Ocean Sole.
Miscellaneous
Job losses in black & white and blurring lines in grey
We should stop talking about when travel retail as an industry or sector will recover but break it out country by country, or more accurately country to country.
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Events
Flying a virtual A380 through a pandemic
It was like being the Captain of the just relaunched Singapore Airlines A380 flight from New York to Singapore (9,536.5 miles from JFK to Changi), switching over occasionally to my excellent Irish co-pilot Dermot Davitt on the Knowledge Hub sessions.
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Events
Blowing up a real storm in Hong Kong and a Virtual one at the Travel Retail Expo
It’s been wonderful to chat with some of the leading Chinese retailers in their own language, similarly so for the teams from Lotte and Shilla in South Korea.
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Events
The slayer who ran looked a lot like me
Roll on ten years and my business is fighting, like so many others, for its life, but I am in rollicking good health. I know which scenario I prefer.
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Events
Of MICE and (not many) men
The year of the rat hasn’t done much for the public image of rodents and it has certainly proved disastrous for MICE (Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions).