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New growth models and duty-free innovation in focus at key Chinese airport commercial summit
The well-attended event, held in Urumqi, highlighted emerging partnership models and retail concepts aimed at strengthening commercial performance across China’s airports.
The travel retailer posted a +21.5% sales rise in January–September as it prepares to expand its Bari Airport offer, retaining a strong focus on regional products.
The well-attended event, held in Urumqi, highlighted emerging partnership models and retail concepts aimed at strengthening commercial performance across China’s airports.
“Out of 100 passengers, only 22 buy something. So I look at the 78 who don’t buy and say, this is a great opportunity. How do we become more relevant? How do we talk to them? How do we convince them?” asks the Travel Blue boss.
The airport company seeks modern concepts for five food & beverage areas and six shops with step-by-step implementation from 2028.
France, of course, is spoiled for choice in terms of a great food, fragrance, wines and spirits heritage and all are brought to life with panache and diversity here. And so, at Extime Duty Free Terminal 2A, is the travelling consumer.
K-food and other Korean destination merchanise are surging in popularity with international visitors and Lotte Duty Free is stepping up its championing of the sectors.
The revamped and expanded store benefits from heavy footfall. In 2025 passenger traffic through the Zhuhai Highway Port of the bridge exceeded 31.34 million, up +14.3% year-on-year and a record high.
The Moodie Davitt Report is on location at Noi Bai International, gateway to the nation’s capital, Hanoi, on a seminal day for Vietnam’s travel retail sector. Today, a vibrant new force, Vietnam Duty Free, comes of age.
“With each step forward, VDF aspires to bring duty-free shopping in Vietnam closer to the standards of the world’s leading travel retail destinations, right at the country’s international gateway,” the company pledges.
The campaign, in partnership with World Duty Free, returns from 15 October-1 November, showcasing Northern Ireland’s distilling heritage through tastings, brand encounters and retail promotions.
Anticipation is building as Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport gears up to welcome its inaugural passenger flights on 25 October. An extensive shopping offer awaits those travellers.
Rituals Global Travel Retail Director Lotte Rozemuller explores the role of cultural storytelling and sensory experiences in driving engagement, drawing on the brand’s Amsterdam Collection and its travel retail roll-out.












