High class in Catalonia

Anyone interested in the evolution of airport terminal buildings should jump on the next flight to Barcelona El Prat Airport’s new Terminal 1. The Catalan airport has long been a favourite of many people I respect highly in this business but the new terminal represents a whole new quality dimension. I have seen many splendid new terminals

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Dazzling with the destination offer

One of the glaring deficiencies in many airport retail offers is the lack of attention given to destination products – creating a strong Sense of Place not only in design but also in how the shelves are stocked helps, we believe, deliver a point of difference, one that consumers are more likely to respond to.

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Answering the age-old question

“I can’t tell you I can turn a 90-year old woman into a 30-year old woman today, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t trying or that it might never happen. It’s still a goal that we won’t give up on.” The words are those of Dr Dan Yarosh, the impressively titled Senior Vice President, Research

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Carted off to jail?

I am looking forward to hearing the case for the defence from those charged with ground theft at London Heathrow Airport, following a series of police raids last month. As we reported, the raids followed an investigation by UK inflight sales security consultant STI – Airline Sales & Services Limited* into ground theft from aircraft at

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Security still the greatest barrier

If anyone doubts the devastating impact of slow, stringent security on footfall and penetration in our channel, take a look at the picture below. It’s the scene at Brussels International Airport last Saturday, 6 June, at around 9am. The passengers you see in the foreground are still around 10-15 minutes from reaching the security point,

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Farewell Paul

When I place my hand in a cold pool and fingerling salmon nibble the ends of my fingers, I know the pool will freeze over and the fingerlings will live under the ice until May when the ice will thaw and the adult salmon will swim into the river’s main channel and eventually work their

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Exposing a leaky Danish defence

Last week’s Nordic Travel Retail Seminar in Copenhagen   was another solid regional conference with plenty of strong content from across the industry. But the biggest talking point was probably the contribution of Marianne Jelved (above), who will forever be remembered as Denmark’s Economics Minister when her country struck the fatal blow that consigned intra-EU duty

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You pays your money and you takes your choice

Last month Emirates announced an increase to its free baggage allowances for all passengers. It was a surprisingly unheralded story, which didn’t generate the headlines it deserved. For the move ran precisely against a worryingly strong trend among the airline community that increasingly sees passengers as ancillary revenue-generating units rather than paying guests – and we’re talking about revenue for

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The Smile Train picks up pace

Further amazing tales of the travel retail industry’s support of children’s cleft charity The Smile Train continue to flood into The Moodie Report. At the recent TFWA Asia Pacific show in Singapore for example, three separate, informal and spontaneously generous fund-raising efforts took place. Our colleagues at Travel Retail Business/TREND hosted their regular and successful

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The right Mann for the job

Warning. Do not approach this woman. She is armed and dangerous. Yes, it is none other than The Moodie Report Associate Editor Rebecca Mann, a woman renowned for calling a spade a spade or in this case a coas a coas. For the uninitiated a coas is the lethally sharp instrument used to harvest the agave

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Lies, damned lies and statistics

“You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time… but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln – or P.T.  Barnum, depending on who you believe to the real source – didn’t have British publishing companies in mind

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A true Nuance-Watson (HK) exclusive as Eau de Piovesana fragrance is launched in unique collaboration between The Estée Lauder Companies and The Moodie Report

Nuance-Watson (HK) Managing Director for North Asia Alessandra Piovesana prides herself on her knowledge of the fragrances and cosmetics market. And she is always up to date with the latest consumer trends and brand launches. But at the recent TFWA Asia Pacific in Singapore she admits to being caught completely unawares by a new launch

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The right combination of local and international flavours

The Moodie Report is in Mumbai, the city newly synonymous with Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire but one of the world’s great cities long before the blockbuster novel and film were ever conceived. We’re here to report on the launch of a major new foray into the food & beverage scene by a company called Travel

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