Up close and personal in travel retail
A glance at our home page tells you how passionately and well The Moodie Davitt Report women team members have embraced the task of underlining the importance of International Women’s Day. The page is splendidly awash with stories by women about women.
As we met outside our planned rendezvous in Aberdeen (the Hong Kong version, not Scotland), Andrew looked at me with bemused surprise. “Wow. You look so young!” “Yeah, right,” I replied miserably. “No, I’m not joking. You do. You look so much younger.”
Gary and I have inhabited the same industry for decades (he joined Plaza Bali in Indonesia in 1991), battled at various points an identical health foe, and retained our joy for travel retail over all those years.
In my view, no airport in the world better encapsulates the much talked-about, often poorly served concept of sense of place as Taoyuan International.
And at that precise moment as one year passes into another, of course one thinks about all those ‘auld acquaintances’ no longer with us, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere I go.
The Moodie Davitt Report.com is known as the website that never sleeps for good reason. And despite the earliness of the hour, it certainly does not slumber on fhe Galway to Dublin bus.
Colm’s loving wife Breeda, brave and beautiful but seemingly shrunken in grief, threw a single red rose on top of the coffin; the priest said some consoling words; and then the family and the hundreds who had gathered to show their last respects shuffled silently away into the chill of an Irish afternoon.
We talked of how an exciting story had begun and of how an unforgettable one has sadly ended. Our chosen tipple was Writers’ Tears Irish whiskey. More than a few of those will be shed today.
“Why is that easy?” Colm demanded to know. The answer was clear. Nothing had been easy. But Colm had the genius to make it look so.
The Moodie Davitt Report’s future is secured for the long term; we will run very much as before (you’ll have to put up with me for a few more years yet); and we have additional firepower for acquistions and organic development.
From the moment you step aboard, you’ll be transported into a world of opulence and adventure, all bathed in the beautiful hue of pink.
Having read the half-question, I just knew there was an ‘or’ coming up. And indeed, like a Kamala Harris retort to the former President’s barking mad canine claim, it didn’t take long.