AUSTRALIA. The agenda for the upcoming Australian Airports Association (AAA) Retail & Commercial Forum Awards has been finalised with a strong speaker line-up and major support from industry partners.
The event is set to be held from 22-24 July at the Pullman on the Park in Melbourne.
Organised by a partnership between the AAA, The Mercurius Group and The Moodie Davitt Report, the Forum brings together all the key players in the airport non-aeronautical revenue sector. These include airports from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, duty-free and speciality retailers, food & beverage operators, foreign exchange operators, advertising concessionaires, ground transport providers and various advisers and suppliers.
Centred around the theme ‘Growth through Understanding, Benchmarking and Analysis’, the three-day event will highlight a number of bespoke research studies undertaken for the Forum in the areas of retail, ground transport and tenant satisfaction.
The Forum will feature 57 speakers, including 18 airport representatives. They are complemented by more delegates across the airport non-aeronautical sector, including duty-free operators, speciality retail operators, F&B operators, foreign exchange operators, advertising concessionaires, ground transport providers and various advisers and suppliers.
The speakers and panellists come from four main categories:
Airports: Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Mackay, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Sunshine Coast and Wellington
Concessionaires: Airport Retail Group Australia, Amcal, CAVU, East Coast Car Rental, Heinemann, JCDecaux, LagardèreAWPL, LivEat, St Ali Coffee, Secure Parking, SSP Group and Uber
Brands: LVMH Beauty, Mecca Brands
Industry/Other: Country Road Group, Cox Architects, Ideas Revenue Solutions, Kinetic, Monash University, Planned Performance, QIC Real Estate, Stripe, THINK Global Research, Trivision, Turner & Townsend, Ultra Commerce, Urbis, Utu Global and Vroom
Among the highlights of the Forum will be two White Papers set to be released by CAVU and Cox Architecture, providing insight into car parking and terminal design.
Specialist market research firm THINK Global Research will also unveil the results of a bespoke consumer research project, and a Monash University research consultancy is set to reveal unbiased retailer feedback on the attractiveness of retailing in airports.
Registration to attend the Forum is open via the AAA website. For the full programme, click on this link. ✈
