Articles tagged “duty-free”

Startups

Scapia Raises $9 Million for Travel Rewards Credit Card

Scapia is offering a lot of travel rewards for its credit card users, while Utu wants to modernize tax-free shopping.

Justin Dawes | 3 months ago

Scapia Raises $9 Million for Travel Rewards Credit Card

Tourism

China’s Hainan Island Aims to Be a Duty-Free Paradise for Tourists

The "Hawaii of China" drew 26.8 million visitors in the first three months of the year partly thanks to its duty-free shopping and its strategic courting of foreign brands to its stores.

Casey Hall, Reuters | 5 months ago

China’s Hainan Island Aims to Be a Duty-Free Paradise for Tourists

News Blog

Certares and Knighthead Invest $225 Million in Global Blue in Bet on Duty-Free Shopping

Have you ever claimed your value added tax back for things you bought during a trip to Europe? Then you probably used a Global Blue Tax Free Shopping service. Global Blue, a payments specialist for 300,000 partner stores primarily in the European Union, is now on the rebound. It has agreed to receive $225 million…

Sean O'Neill | 1 year ago

Business Travel

Accor’s Wojo Goes All In on Remote Working Spaces

Investor appetite, rather than remote employees themselves, will be the driving force that determines where work gets done in the future — including shopping malls.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Accor’s Wojo Goes All In on Remote Working Spaces

Business Travel

Luxury Beauty Brands Make Over Airport Retail

Duty-free airport retail is an excellent way to reach coveted consumers. But airports also serve as the perfect global showcase for brands to test market products, try out new retail concepts, and build brand awareness among customers from emerging countries.

Laura Powell, Skift | 4 years ago

Luxury Beauty Brands Make Over Airport Retail

Business Travel

The Shifting Strategies of Luxury Duty-Free Retailers

With competition from online retailers rising, airport duty-free shops selling luxury goods need to up the ante. Some methods they are using seem to be successful, while others may start annoying potential customers.

Laura Powell, Skift | 6 years ago

The Shifting Strategies of Luxury Duty-Free Retailers

Airlines

United Airlines Gives Up on Duty Free

Perhaps it's fitting that United is dropping its duty free program in the same year it is retiring its Boeing 747s. Both harken back to a different time in aviation.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 7 years ago

United Airlines Gives Up on Duty Free

Airlines

Delta Drops In-Flight Duty-Free Business

Delta's decision not to replace the vendor raises the question of whether its passengers will notice, or care enough, to get the airline to change its mind. This might be the perfect test-case for the true appeal of duty-free.

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 9 years ago

Delta Drops In-Flight Duty-Free Business

Airlines

What Airports and Airlines Must Learn From the Retail Industry

By following retail trends and empowering flyers to make purchases via mobile devices and self-service kiosks, airports will increase sales and boost customer satisfaction -- a win-win for all.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 9 years ago

What Airports and Airlines Must Learn From the Retail Industry

Airlines

How Duty-Free Booze Business Is Helping Make Air Travel Easier

Security of aviation is of the utmost priority, but so is ensuring the convenience of flying in the long term. If the economic pressure to liberalize the sale and transport of Duty-Free items has helped fund and fuel these initiatives, then we can all drink to that.

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 9 years ago

How Duty-Free Booze Business Is Helping Make Air Travel Easier