Welcome to The Moodie Report Print Edition for February/March 2015, available in full – editorial and advertising – in our unique digital format.
This issue majors on coverage of China and the Chinese traveller, the greatest opportunity of the 21st century for our industry. We turn the spotlight on some of the country’s leading travel retailers – and bring you their profiles both in English and Mandarin, with this issue benefiting from bonus distribution at the TFWA-organised China Conference in March.
We talk to China Duty Free Group about its new Cambodian operation, Angkor Duty Free Shop, as the company targets growth overseas as well as at home. We assess Sunrise Duty Free’s enterprising new e-commerce drive; plus we meet China Sales Group – the leading player in inflight retail services onboard China’s airlines – and ask how it can turn the vast potential in Chinese outbound travel into higher penetration levels and sales inflight.
We report on DFS’s most spectacular Masters of Time event yet, as the travel retailer underlines its luxury credentials. And we hear from Xi’an Xianyang International Airport, where a terminal transformation is delivering new consumer experiences, from duty free to food & beverage.
We are also delighted to bring you a series of features on one of the biggest recent commercial investments at a major US airport: New York JFK Terminal 4.
We visited New York in late December to meet management at the Schiphol Group affiliate JFKIAT, which manages the facility, as well as key partners such as DFS, Hudson, SSP, Saveria USA, XpresSpa, Travelex, JCDecaux and Pacific Gateway Concessions.
The T4 story is a terrific one, which speaks of partnership through good times and bad, an airport’s trust in tenants to deliver and a two-way street in terms of coordination and communication amid a US$1.4 billion project.
And there’s more. From Bangkok we bring you highlights of King Power International Group’s 25th anniversary in late 2014. And from North Africa we feature IDFS Morocco and news of its investment drive last year, as it too celebrated 25 years in business.
We hope you find The Moodie Report Print Edition stimulating, thought-provoking and enjoyable.
