Up close and personal in travel retail
I have been visiting Korea multiple times each year since 1989 and care deeply about its travel retail industry. I am proud of the respect in which we are held there. Our voice was an important one for a sector under legislative attack. Quite simply we had to be there.
You know the saying, “There’s no place like home”? Home is a shelter from storms, where we feel most safe and comfortable, and for most of us in the travel retail industry, I’m sure there’s nothing like returning home after long trips away for work. Spending time at home is a luxury – being able
With South Korea’s leading travel retailers in the news to an unprecedented degree (The Shilla Duty Free’s triumph in the Changi Perfumes & Cosmetics tender; Lotte Duty Free’s win in Guam; and Incheon International Airport’s record duty free sales in 2013), there’s certain to be widespread interest in a fascinating new book that examines the
Heave away, heave away Oh heave away, you ruler king, We’re bound for South Australia Good morning sports fans from Adelaide. If you’re in the South Australian capital for the second Ashes cricket test between the Aussies and the Poms (sorry, the English), then bring your umbrella, thermals and whisky flasks. It’s blowing up a
I often talk about setting up my interim Moodie Report bureaus but this one is more interim than most. I’m in transit at Hong Kong International Airport for around 90 minutes, over half the way along the long, long haul to Adelaide and Sydney, where I’ll be attending a major Treasury Wine Estates event featuring
The Moodie Blog is proud, delighted (and staggered) to report one of the biggest upsets in sporting history as just minutes ago The Moodie Report Deputy Chairman Dermot Davitt claimed the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup. The Moodie Report’s man in Galway was a hugely popular winner – and a deserving one too after
Late night reports are reaching The Moodie Blog from Dubai of a surprise contender for the Dubai Duty Free Golf World Cup, according to our newly appointed freelance golfing correspondent Philip Eckles. The two-day tournament, for many the sporting and social highlight of the travel retail calendar, plays host to many of travel retail’s biggest names – and
Having attended the inaugural Master of Spirits and Master of Spirits II the past two years, you can say that I’m pretty much a veteran of the event by now. So when I received my invitation to the third annual Masters of Wines and Spirits, I wondered what kinds of tricks DFS had up its
As I begin this Blog, I’m five hours or 4,004 kilometres out of Hong Kong, just south of my regular ‘blogspot’ Novosibirsk and north of Ust-Kamenogorsk. It’s 6a.m. in London time, 2a.m. Hong Kong time and goodness knows when Moodie time. At 35,000 feet I’m listening to the exquisite ‘silver violin’ of Nicola Benedetti as
When you don’t see me Blog for a while, you just know I am very, very busy… I’ve been in Guam – still am in fact – initially attending and co-moderating the excellent ACI Asia-Pacific Small & Emergent Airports Seminar, while simultaneously working with my tremendous team in London finalising our monster Cannes print edition.
Welcome to The Moodie Report’s temporary Limerick Bureau. I’d love to say it’s just like home, but that would be, in Irish vernacular, a load of blarney. Above is the lovely, tranquil view from my hotel room of the beautiful grounds of Adare Manor (looking out towards a superb golf course). I’m here for Aer
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on a publication by our Moodie Corporate division marking the 30th anniversary of Dubai Duty Free , writes Rahul Odedra. For a newcomer to the industry such as me, it has been both fascinating and educational looking back at three remarkable decades for the company, and one
My global whirlwind tour continues with a case of ‘If it’s Sunday, this must be Dubai’. Over the past 11 days, I calculate my shocking carbon footprint stretches to 23,1771 miles. My team back at HQ have even suggested creating a travel retail version of the popular ‘Where’s Wally?’ character, called ‘Where’s Martin?’ but I have
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