HONG KONG, CHINA. The Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA) is to host a networking event in partnership with Women in Travel Retail+ (WiTR+) in Hong Kong on 2 August.
The evening event, called Summer in the City, will raise funds for Koma Karanth Foundation, WiTR+’s chosen charity for 2023.
It will take place at Duddell’s in Hong Kong Central, where APTRA hosted another successful evening in 2021 – the first at-scale industry event of its kind in Asia Pacific since lockdown.
Summer in the City is open to all APTRA and WiTR+ members and anyone in the travel retail community. Another WiTR+ charity event will be simultaneously held at Changi Jewel Airport in Singapore, organised by Changi Airport Group Vice President Chandra Mahtani.
The entry price for the non-profit event is US$100 per person and includes Duddell’s dim sum and drinks. Places are limited to 100 and can be booked via admin@aptra.asia on a first come, first served basis.
APTRA President and King Power Group (Hong Kong) CEO Sunil Tuli commented: “Hong Kong is a second home to APTRA with so many of our members and the wider travel retail industry based here, so it’s a natural choice for our Summer in the City evening.
“After such an enthusiastic response to the APTRA lunch in Singapore, we’re looking forward to bringing people together with WiTR+, which is led in North Asia by APTRA board member Erin Lillis. WiTR+ does a fantastic job in raising funds for its charity of the year at events held around the world.
“We are happy to support the vital work of this year’s charity, Koma Karanth Foundation, in supporting and facilitating self-sufficiency for under-privileged women in the Philippines and the positive ripples that creates in their families and community, now and for future generations,” Tuli added.
As reported, the Koma Karanth Foundation was founded by Maitreyi Karanth in Gloria, Oriental Mindoro.
The Koma Karanth Foundation has so far built 24 homes, an old age community centre and a tutoring centre for children. It has also provided solar streetlights, drilled water wells and connected them by pipe and pump into water tanks for the tribal community.
As reported, Maitreyi Karanth headlined the WiTR+ meeting at TFWA Asia Pacific show on 9 May. Before the event, Martin Moodie caught up with her in Hong Kong for an exclusive interview – click here to read her remarkable life story. ✈
