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GDF Plaza drives Hainan resident engagement with summer promotional blitz
The Hainan-based travel retailer is ramping up its local shopper push with a summer programme of exclusive offers, entertainment and collectable rewards.
The campaign, which ran across Bangkok, Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Taipei and Hainan, was anchored by a VIP Lounge takeover at the cdf Mall and hotel partnership in Sanya.
The Hainan-based travel retailer is ramping up its local shopper push with a summer programme of exclusive offers, entertainment and collectable rewards.
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The Glen Grant’s 20sq m activation at the GDF Plaza in Haikou brought the travel retail-exclusive range to life through an immersive multi-sensory journey, guided tastings and a striking OOH media takeover.
“By successfully shifting our focus from ‘price-driven competition’ to an ‘experience-oriented’ duty-free model, Shinsegae Duty Free has achieved significant improvements in its business fundamentals and profitability,” a company spokesperson comments.
This was the second successive positive three-month performance for the business following six successive negative quarters.
The travel retailer has partnered with Deji Art Museum to introduce two cultural IP collections at its Nanjing Lukou International Airport store, bringing locally inspired art and design to departing travellers.
Sino-Singapore (Hainan) Airport Commercial Management Co is harnessing a ‘first-store economy’ and ‘aviation + tourism’ strategy for a dynamic summer campaign at Haikou Meilan International Airport.
The campaign taps into the beauty brand’s heritage of holistic beauty, combining wellness, movement and skincare to create more engaging consumer experiences across the region.
June was a soft month for Korean spending in the world’s biggest duty-free market with downtown and airport sales off by -20.1% and -22.2% year-on-year, respectively. UPDATED with tables and graphs.
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