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Martin Moodie is the Founder & Chairman of The Moodie Report.
Events
How K-Fruit, China Chic and the essence of sogha may be the future of travel retail
If the days of bulk selling to consumers who are buying for others (and I’m not talking gifting) are over (or at least limited), then what fills the gap?
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Miscellaneous
Minns det som igår min vän – Remember it like yesterday my friend
And at that precise moment as one year passes into another, of course one thinks about all those ‘auld acquaintances’ no longer with us, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues.
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Quirky
Time to paws Petsonality as Tito’s Handmade Vodka unleashes support for The Moodie Blog
The sight and sound of an industry executive yelling “Taxi!” while chasing a chair-dragging dog of the same name down the street is surely one for my unofficial history of the travel retail world.
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Travel
On the road to Mandalay where the Flying Kiwis play
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere I go.
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People
Finding a new way to shed Writers’ Tears in Galway
The Moodie Davitt Report.com is known as the website that never sleeps for good reason. And despite the earliness of the hour, it certainly does not slumber on fhe Galway to Dublin bus.
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People
A last red rose and a final farewell
Colm’s loving wife Breeda, brave and beautiful but seemingly shrunken in grief, threw a single red rose on top of the coffin; the priest said some consoling words; and then the family and the hundreds who had gathered to show their last respects shuffled silently away into the chill of an Irish afternoon.
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People
Writers’ Tears and Galway memories
We talked of how an exciting story had begun and of how an unforgettable one has sadly ended. Our chosen tipple was Writers’ Tears Irish whiskey. More than a few of those will be shed today.
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Airports
How a ‘Crazy. Bold. Ambitious’ formula is paying rich dividends for Malaysia Airports
This was by some distance the most thrilling and sheer fun awards night I can recall attending over my four decades in the business.
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Events
Vibrant Vietnam delivers The Trinity Forum 2024 in triumphant style
Ho Chi Minh was a fabulous location and I have run out of superlatives to describe the hospitality, grace, support and professionalism of our co-hosts Airports Corporation of Vietnam and IPP Group.
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Events
Back on the road as The Trinity Forum hits Ho Chi Minh City
It’s the 21st anniversary of the event I created way back in 2003 when the first Trinity Forum was held in London. The event, like the travel retail sector, has come a long way since, both geographically and in terms of substance.
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People
Someday we shall return to this place upon the meadow
“Why is that easy?” Colm demanded to know. The answer was clear. Nothing had been easy. But Colm had the genius to make it look so.
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Airports
Is Changi the world’s most user-friendly airport?
Changi offers a quality that is almost a contradiction of terms with most world airports. Serenity.