Travel Retail: a new showcase for Luxury

Registering global growth of 8% a year, travel retail is taking off. The promising channel encompasses airport stores and downtown galleries that offer tourists duty free shopping. Séverine Lanthier, Travel Retail Director at Kering and Gucci, talks about the Group’s plans to tap the potential of this strategic market.

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“Travel retail in 21st century? Chinese, Millennials and Digital”

Boosted by the growth in passenger volumes, improvements in the retail space and an increasing role for digitalization, travel retail offers a wealth of business opportunities – especially if you can attract Chinese and Millennial buyers, says Martin Moodie, founder of The Moodie Davitt Report, travel retail’s leading B2B media.

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“A special opportunity for brands and their audiences”

For Isabelle Fourmentin, CEO of JCDecaux Airport Paris (a joint venture owned by JCDecaux and Paris Aéroport) travel retail is a special opportunity for brands to engage with their audiences. To seize it, brands need to focus their communication on the in-store experience. Here are the major trends at work in a distribution channel that is enjoying very rapid growth.

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Travel retail: where Luxury spreads its wings

Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) has developed a new retail strategy for its flagship airport at Fiumicino, providing infrastructure and operational support for its shopping areas. Gianluca Littarru, AdR’s General Manager, explains the changes and the central role being played by Luxury Retail in this new airport environment. The focus is on giving high-spending passengers the time and opportunity to do their shopping in a dedicated Luxury space.

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