Latin America And Caribbean News

(1-Sep-2004) BRAZIL. Duty Free Bahia has reported a strong recovery in the first half of the year after depressed traffic at Salvador de Bahia's Deputado Luis Eduardo Magalhaes International airport hit sales in 2003.

(1-Sep-2004) ST MAARTEN. Global real estate firm REMAX has revealed that international travel retailers are lining up to take advantage of lucrative new commercial properties on the island of St Maarten/St Martin, where tourist numbers have grown since the opening of a new cruise terminal.

(1-Sep-2004) Duty-free operators in the Mercosur trading zone have benefited from the region's strong economic revival. But are the good times back to stay? John Gallagher reports

(1-Sep-2004) SOUTH AMERICA. Regional operators are in buoyant mood as the trade prepares for the annual ASUTIL conference, with many reporting double-digit growth in the first half of the year.

(1-Sep-2004) PERU. Lima Airport Partners (LAP) is to improve retail facilities at Jorge Chavez International airport after government regulator OSITRAN approved an $80m investment plan.

(26-Aug-2004) John Rimmer welcomes you to the August/September issue of TRI

(26-Aug-2004) The Latin American duty-free business has been recovering from one of the worst recessions in living memory. Some old names have disappeared, and some new ones have appeared. But in the aftermath of the economic turmoil, no name is more synonymous with duty-free than Urioste, thanks to two brothers at the cutting edge of Latin American travel-retail. John Gallagher reports

(26-Aug-2004) The trauma of crisis lives long in the memory, so the caution with which Latin America's operators have greeted the recovery in sales this year is understandable. Yet that recovery is real and will be sustained, writes Dermot Davitt

(26-Aug-2004) London Supply commercial director Paco Heredia looks at the Argentinian economy past and present, drawing lessons for duty-free

(26-Aug-2004) Whether you are into first-class luxury or a Disney experience, there are now floating holidays to suit all tastes. But when it comes to shopping, just how well do we know cruise passengers' expectations? RFH Consumer Insight's Adele Wolstenhulme has some answers from the company's latest research in the Caribbean