The big travel retail event here in Dubai is just days away and expectations and tension are equally high. Some of the industry’s top names will be on show and some animated dialogue is expected. The MEDFA conference? No – the Dubai Duty Free World Golf Cup, by popular acclaim the best social event in
Events
An industry shooting itself in the foot
“We are hearing of confiscations of the magnitude of 1,200 litres a day in certain places.” Those are the words of European Travel Retail Council President Frank O’Connell in a briefing to The Moodie Report yesterday on the impact of the new 6 November EU aviation security regulations which mean that passengers arriving in EU/EEA
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Airports
Destination Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport
Coup? What coup? That’s the question any observer of the Thai duty free industry must be asking this week as Bangkok’s long-awaited new airport at Suvarnabhumi Airport gets set for its Grand Opening – just nine days after a military coup that overthrew the Prime Minister. Any thoughts that the dramatic events of last Tuesday