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).
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People
Booting out biblical references unfit for a civilised society
Bravo Becky Paskin. I am proud that you are our partner on World of Spirits, an event that will welcome women and men from all over the world but will bar sexism from entering the door.
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Events
A hidden gem no longer
Thanks to a range of enthralling virtual tastings that I have been invited to over recent weeks plus a barrage of entries for The QDF Factor (more of that in a subsequent Blog), I could now open one of the best bars in Hung Hom.
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Quirky
Boris in Blunderland and quite the stupidest T(ory) party you’ll ever visit
“Short-sighted, incomprehensible and, let’s say, quite masochistic decision! I love this country, but sometimes I hardly understand it”
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Miscellaneous
Raising the bar every day to a ceaseless, magical rhythm
We think we have created something ground-breaking not just in travel retail terms but within the whole digital world.
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Quirky
From one Martin to another, and another… and another
I had a dream, and it involved Martins. Lots of Martins.
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Airports
Kia kaha Canterbury – stay strong
Kia kaha indeed. In these dark COVID-blighted days, it seems as apposite a phrase as it was back in the dark moments of 2010 and 2011.
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Miscellaneous
Sunshine through the fragrant harbour (and COVID-19) haze
It is now reasonable to expect that better days lie ahead, not on some distant and perhaps mirage-like horizon but in the relative near term.
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People
COVID-struck but Wild Tiger’s Wild Cat will roar again soon
Get well Gautom (and Vinaya), we need you roaring again and your seemingly inexhaustible supply of bad tiger puns flowing again like the Wild Tiger Rum on a good night out.