Argentina?s biggest airport landlord Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 is drawing a line under years of economic and legal turmoil to get back to what it does best. John Gallagher talks to commercial director Marcelo Orfila about the company?s renewed focus on retail.

Two years ago some of the biggest travel retailers in the Americas displayed a rare show of unity in lobbying for changes to the structure of US airport retail contracts. How much has changed since then? John Rimmer and Gavin Lipsith assess the current climate.

A well-established hit with international visitors, the famous New York store has thrown open its doors still wider by opening a second Manhattan branch. But staying at the cutting edge of retail requires more than just floor space. Eluned Jones talks to international marketing and tourism director Jacqueline Relyea about service and strategy.

Canada?s border duty-free operators found little shelter from the ?perfect storm? that hit them in 2003. With sales at a four-year low, the business is pinning its hopes on a strong recovery in 2004. John Rimmer reports.

As the travel business continues to face an uncertain future, growth in cruiseship traffic offers a wealth of opportunities for onboard and land-based retailers in the Caribbean?provided they can find the right balance between products and price. Neena Dhillon reports.

D_parture spa has arrived, and is helping travellers at Newark and Orlando airports to cope with the stress of travel. But will tighter US security procedures help or hinder its recipe for relaxation? Tina Milton reports.

The short but eventful history of Duty Free Americas entered a new phase last November when the operator announced it had settled its long-running dispute with bondholders. Chairman Simon Falic tells John Rimmer that the company is finally free to focus on retail.

?Risk and reward are relative,? Hudson Group executive vice-president Joe DiDomizio tells Gavin Lipsith. If true, north America?s largest duty-paid travel retailer must have high hopes after acquiring WH Smith?s US airport business?one of the sector?s boldest deals in years.

South Africa?s proposal to outlaw duty-free tobacco sales stunned the industry. But a new, cooperative framework for fighting trade issues around the world has emerged from campaigners? efforts to defend the sector, writes Gavin Lipsith.

The tobacco industry is under threat as never before. Recent directiveshave tightened restrictions on the activities that tobacco companies can undertake to sell their products. Yet tobacco remains as popular a duty-free purchase as ever. Jonathan Brown and Gavin Lipsith profile some of the big suppliers.

An injection of cash into the recently consolidated Dufry Group by new shareholder Advent could herald big changes in the fortunes of the Swiss operator. And it looks likely to radically alter the topography of the global industry, writes Dermot Davitt.

The news of the World Health Organization?s (WHO) latest assault on duty-free tobacco, which broke as this issue went to press, took me back to my first days as a reporter on TRI sister magazine Duty-Free News International in 2000

On the eve of the last Duty Free Show of the Americas to be held in Orlando, guest columnist IAADFS executive director Michael Payne predicts an exciting future for the industry.

Balance is the key to developing the brand portfolio at Estée Lauder, which is looking to broaden its travel-retail horizons by expanding into India, eastern Europe and China. Tina Milton reports.

Duty-free retail is one of the cartoon villains in the World Health Organization?s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Delays in airport development are hardly unheard of in this age of economic and political instability, and nowhere have the past few years been more unstable than in Israel

Many things seem to conspire against airport retailing in New York?some of the brightest and best domestic shopping in the world, for starters. But opportunities exist to meet some of travellers? key retail needs away from the city?s teeming streets and stores. Dr Ian Cesa reports.

As many retail development opportunities exist outside an airport terminal as inside. Landlords need to keep pushing the boundaries of retail development to drive retail revenue growth, argues Ivo Favotto.

Updating a well-known and respected brand for a modern audience is a delicate task. But cigar maker Henri Wintermans believes it has created a style that will see the company well into its second century. Jonathan Brown reports.