The fog lifts and our Piper Seneca taxis to the end of the runway. Five minutes later we are through the clouds and leaving Montevideo behind. As the guest of Neutral I am on the 90-minute shuttle to the Uruguay-Brazil border to witness one of the major transformations in contemporary travel retail. Along this frontier,
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A portrait of Busan
Despite hanging out with art-school girls during my university years I was never invited to ‘sit’ for a portrait, and there’s been a notable shortage of commissions ever since, writes Peter Dowling. So it was the fulfilment of an unrealised bit of egomania today when I got to pose for all of 30 seconds to
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Getting to know the DNA of Brisbane Airport
Blue skies, relaxed outdoor living, a buoyant economy, passenger growth averaging +5% year-on-year growth – the challenge when branding Brisbane Airport’s would seem to be where to start. But defining the airport brand is what Head of Corporate Relations Rachel Crowley and her team at Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) have completed with their publication ‘Going
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A foretaste of Western Australia – on site at Perth’s T2
There’s no substitute for getting on location to understand an airport. At Perth Airport right now that means donning hardhat, safety glasses and steel-capped boots to enter the Terminal 2 construction site. With snappy fluorescent vests over our equally snappy business attire, Perth Airport’s Executive General Manager Commercial Services Scott Norris, General Manager Retail Rebecca