Bonnel to make first industry address at Summit

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The new CEO Europe for The Nuance Group is to address this year's Global Travel Retail Summit in London on June 21-23

Jean-Paul Bonnel, The Nuance Group's newly-appointed CEO Europe, will share his 20 years of experience on the high street and his vision for the European market at this year's Global Travel Retail Summit, to be held at London's Millennium Gloucester Hotel on June 21-23.

Bonnel's presentation, entitled From the High Street to the Airport: Creating Retail Brand Power, will be his first address to the travel-retail industry since leaving his senior post at French domestic retailer Printemps Group in January.

The Nuance Group joins a number of the world's leading travel retailers and airport authorities in its participation at the Summit, which will also hear from representations of the World Tourism Organization and Pacific Asia Travel Association.

Speakers from some of the most innovative travel-retail companies will present their visions for growing the business through effective consumer targeting and merchandising strategies to address the Summit's theme Targeting the Travelling Millions: The Next Decade. Meanwhile, exclusive consumer demographic data and information on the spending habits, attitudes, motivations to shop and key destinations of leading travelling nationalities will be unveiled and analysed.

Among those to confirm their participation at the Summit are World Duty Free trading director David Griffiths, Malaysia Airports managing director Dato Seri Bashir, Hochtief Airport director commercial and property activities Dr Peter Evangelos Poungias, Brasif Duty Free Shop director Gustavo Fagundes, WHSmith Travel Retail business development director Fin Casey, Horizon Research Corporation CEO Dr Ian Cesa, HMSHost managing director Europe Walter Seib, India Tourism Development Corp vice-president duty-free NK Piplani, SSP CEO Andrew Lynch, Pacific Asia Travel Association CEO Peter de Jong and Sandra Carvão, from the market intelligence and promotion department of the World Tourism Organization.

Pre-gala cocktails will be sponsored by Diageo Global Duty Free.

For more details please contact Raven Fox Events/Seminars business development director Adele Wolstenhulme on +44 20 7779 8651 or email awolstenhulme@ravenfox.com.