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Articles tagged “retail”

Tourism

The $1.9 Million Tour That Comes With a Free 25-Carat Diamond

After Colbert's deconstruction of this tour, unlikely any 0.00001 percenter would want any unwanted attention by buying this "once-in-a-lifetime adventure."

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

The $1.9 Million Tour That Comes With a Free 25-Carat Diamond

Airlines

Skift Q&A: How to sell physical products to today’s digital travelers

User design has quickly become an integral part of the travel experience with tech-savvy travelers looking to efficiently bypass fees in style. Flight 001’s colorful clean designs match the minimalism enforced by mobile passes and digital guidebooks.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Skift Q&A: How to sell physical products to today’s digital travelers

Tourism

Luxury brands worry Parisian crime will stop tourists from shopping

Luxury industries in still stagnant economies are starting to rely on the influx of high-spending tourists from China and Brazil; anything to stunt that growth would hurt the tourism and retail industries alike.

Skift | 11 years ago

Luxury brands worry Parisian crime will stop tourists from shopping

Tourism

Chinese and Brazilian tourists are driving luxury retail sales in the U.S.

U.S. tourism and retail is benefitting from the large number of Chinese and Brazilian visitors seeking lower prices on luxury goods, a movement the U.S. supports by continuing to shorten visa wait times abroad.

Reuters | 11 years ago

Chinese and Brazilian tourists are driving luxury retail sales in the U.S.

Hotels

Whole Foods planning a health resort in Austin

Whole Foods recently launched a food tourism venture, with a built in audience, and this would have the same philosophy behind it: tap the massive following of dedicated, wealthy, and discerning consumers who are likely to become the venture’s first customers.

Skift | 11 years ago

Whole Foods planning a health resort in Austin

Tourism

Spanish retailers target tourists to offset depressed local spending

Locals feel their home brands have turned their back on the struggling country by offering incentives and discounts to foreigners, but stores are doing what they can to keep their businesses afloat.

Manuel Baigorri, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Spanish retailers target tourists to offset depressed local spending

Skift Originals

Skift global trend for 2013: Travelers are hungry for food tourism

Food tourism has the potential to be the next big growth market as the hunger for more authentic and local experiences among tourists rise.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Skift global trend for 2013: Travelers are hungry for food tourism

Airlines

Are airports the new malls for holiday shopping?

Airports are ramping up their retail offerings both to become destinations in their own right and squeeze a profit out of flyers listlessly waiting around. Whether it's as successful as this Times trend piece argues is another matter.

Skift | 11 years ago

Are airports the new malls for holiday shopping?

Skift Originals

Foodies’ dreams come true with launch of a new travel venture by Whole Foods

Whole Foods already has a massive following of dedicated, wealthy consumers who are likely to salivate at the news and become the venture’s first customers.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Foodies’ dreams come true with launch of a new travel venture by Whole Foods

SkiftX

How Starbucks is rolling out its new global retail atlas

Travelers aren't going to make new friends with locals at Starbucks, but the multi-national coffee chain is a familiar face with standard services practically anywhere you go.

Melissa Allison, Seattle Times | 12 years ago