International News

(1-Feb-2006) Champagne is enjoying considerable success as travel retailers begin to exploit its potential. But with domestic prices falling and production in the Champagne region nearing capacity, could trouble lie ahead? Joe Bates reports

(1-Feb-2006) SAS Flightshop, the retail arm of Scandinavian Airlines System, is unveiling a new shopping website this month where passengers and other consumers can buy tax-free goods. Lorna Strickland visits the airline's Swedish headquarters to find out what prompted the latest development

(1-Feb-2006) The collapse of Swissair in 2001 was the defining moment in a period of intense crisis for the aviation industry. The carrier's re-emergence as Swiss International Air Lines, and the fresh emphasis placed on its inflight sales business, offers encouragement to the industry as a whole. John Rimmer reports

(1-Feb-2006) UAE. Abu Dhabi Duty Free (ADDF) has reported an 8% increase in sales in 2005 compared with 2004, and the company aims to achieve bigger increases in 2006 as the new Etihad terminal opens

(1-Feb-2006) The first India Duty Free Workshop, to be held at the Le Meridien hotel in Cochin on February 21–23, has attracted a strong line-up of speakers providing expert insight into one of the world's most promising travel-retail markets

(1-Feb-2006) The Global Travel Retail Summit 2006 is gathering momentum with a number of big-name speakers confirming their participation

(1-Feb-2006) Closer cooperation between retail tenants and landlords is a mantra most frequently heard at the airport

(1-Feb-2006) If the industry spent a little more time targeting the consumer rather than each other, the benefits would be great. And with growing competition from other sales channels, travel-retail needs to act now

(1-Feb-2006) Imagination Unlimited International (IUI), the exclusive duty-free distributor for Vincor International, has ambitious plans to expand the Canadian firm's share of the super-premium duty-free wine market

(1-Feb-2006) As revealed on RavenFox.com (January 16), Bacardi Global Brands has formed a new travel-retail division, to be headed by newly-appointed managing director Maurice Doyle