More miles, more smiles and a Mission Impossible

And so we’re off again… Following the fantastic success of the first travel retail industry ‘Miles for Smiles’ fund-raising run in Dubai late last year, the event will be repeated on 21 November at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. For the uninitated, Miles for Smiles is divided into two events, 10k and 5k, allowing participants to run

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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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“They all call me Pinki now”

It could be a big night for India at the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday evening. While most eyes will be on Slumdog Millionaire’s bid for the Best Picture Award, a few hours earlier a less celebrated but perhaps more important film, also set in India, will have its own chance of glory. I’m talking

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