Lovett calls on airports to cater more for smokers to drive sales

Gavin Lipsith

18-Dec-2006

Airports could do more to encourage smokers to spend at their duty-free stores, British-American Tobacco (BAT) managing director worldwide duty-free Neil Lovett told delegates at last month’s Middle East Duty Free Association conference in Dubai.

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Lovett urged airports to regard smokers “as a revenue source not a pariah”, and claimed that one in five airport users smokes and that retail revenue could be increased by........

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