I particularly like the fact that the Frontier Award includes a glass globe, which I can turn to show my home country of New Zealand as well as the myriad of places I have visited during this amazing 30-year sojourn in travel retail.
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Airports
LaunchPads and rocket launches lead to airport shopping take-off
Vegan and glam in the same sentence. You read it here first. Brilliant.
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Events
Preparing to open The Moodie Davitt Report Interim French Riviera Bureau
Certain things become a given as you become an aging travel retail publisher. Winters grow longer, darker, colder. Summers grow shorter. And the Cannes show comes around quicker.
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Airports
Clearing up a clearing-up issue at Dublin Airport
My recent Blog about the awful state of the public seating area surrounding (not inside) the Starbucks at Dublin Airport T1 hopefully struck a chord.
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Airlines
What will I do with the leftover wine?
Tonight I’m down the back of the plane (in a middle seat goddamn it) but one of the benefits of having squillions of points is that I have access to some decent lounges whichever part of the big steel bird I am flying.
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Airports
A very British coup for a very French brand at Heathrow T3
Finding a Louis Vuitton store in an airport is like spotting an Okapi, a Sao Tome Shrew, a Red Wolf, a Javan Rhino, a Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat or any other rare species.
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Airports
Homeless finds a home in Hong Kong
I saw (and bought) a map of the world, for which you stuck special pins denoting the cities and countries you have visited (I had to buy extra pins).
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Design
How Helen developed a cutting edge at Victorinox
Helen Pawson, The Moodie Davitt Report’s Brand Editor, is a key member of our organisation and a highly talented all-rounder. But until now I had no idea that she had an aptitude for knife-making. She’s obviously even sharper than I thought… Helen showed her hand, as it were, at the London flagship store of Victorinox,
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Airports
Full marks to Marqette, no stars for Starbucks at Dublin Airport
Airport dining gets a bad rap, often unfairly. But sometimes the sector plays into the hands of its critics. I always hesitate to single out businesses for criticism when they are doing their best. But I don’t think this one was.
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Miscellaneous
A voyage of discovery along the Dalmatian coast
Greetings from the latest Moodie Davitt Interim Bureau, on the wondrous Dalmatian coast near Dubrovnik. As the images on this page suggest, there are worse places to spend time as a journalist in the duty free industry. The beauty of the region is one thing, but it has been matched by the welcome I have
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Airports
A front-row seat at Australia’s finest movie showing
The view from my window on QF127 is better than any cinema could ever offer. Australia simply stretches. And then it stretches some more. It is a wondrous country.
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Airports
Sensational in Sydney: Tales of terminal transformation
I do believe it’s time for another adventure. The perfect sentiment for The Moodie Blog.
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Airports
Prada fragrances to go (just) at Hong Kong International Airport
I’ll be taking off en route to the New South Wales gateway to report on the airport’s commercial revolution. And on that plane with me – and their generous purchaser – will be two bottles of Prada women’s fragrance. Viva duty free.