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People
How George Drivas is ensuring The Forgotten Women of Brisbane are forgotten no longer
Referred to as the hidden homeless, these women may be living in cars, couch surfing, or facing threats of violence, among other challenges.
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Travel
Listening out for the Song of Cathay
Because of the prevailing conditions, I can hear but not see the planes soaring above the distant hills, a sight that, on clear days, serves as a constant and oddly comforting reminder of the world of travel that I have inhabited for the past 37 years.
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Airports
How Hong Kong Airport is using art as a different form of connectivity
I’ll let the pictures – not only of the exhibition but of the encouraging consumer engagement it is generating – tell the story. It is one that so richly deserves to be told.
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Airports
Flying high above Hong Kong Airport without leaving the city
From this height, one of the world’s greatest airports almost resembles a model, with little toy planes coming in to land or roaring along the runways. But it’s very much the real thing.
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Airports
Discovering a curate’s egg at Paris Charles de Gaulle and being cordoned (off) bleu!
I’m not so sure that an (albeit elegantly) cordoned-off luxury store – even one bearing the most lustrous brand name on the planet – is actually that alluring.
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Events
A drone-lit, FAB-ulous and (Brewery) X-rated experience in Ontario
The energy, the passion, the support, the hospitality, the professionalism of the ONT team were second to none. Atif has assembled one hell of a class act here and it shows through every aspect of their operation.
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Airports
From Hong Kong through Taipei and onto FAB-ulous Ontario International Airport
There’s just time to sip on a chilled 2023 Banrock Station Chardonnay from South Australia that’s a lot sprightlier than me and munch on some stir-fried cabbage with fungus and celery. The ways I spend my Saturday evenings…
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Airports
Getting the alignment, sequencing and timing right at Dubai Duty Free
Ramesh has stepped into very big boots indeed, those worn by his predecessor Colm McLoughlin with such distinction since 1983. That responsibility excites rather than daunts him and rightly so.
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Airports
Making a big and beautiful bang in Bengaluru
Already I wrote that the arrivals duty-free store is perhaps the world’s best (having mulled it over and discussed with many people via email and LinkedIn, I would now remove the qualifier ‘perhaps’).
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Events
On Cloud Nine with DFS & Cathay Pacific and BAC to the Future in Brisbane
Ao Yun（敖云）– destined, I think, to become one of the world’s great wines – means ‘above the clouds’, which given the amount of time I spend in exactly the same place, makes it one I hope to drink a lot more of in the future
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Airports
Time, terroir and telling a 300-year story – A Rémy Martin experience
Heritage, passion, time, terroir, humility and knowledge passed down the generations; these themes and many others resonated during a memorable immersion into the world of world of Rémy Martin.
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Travel
Getting ahead of myself on the road to Riyadh
“Mr Moodie,” the check-in agent said in the tone one usually reserves for an elderly and confused grandparent. “Your flight is not until tomorrow. The 20th.”