The APAC Dialogue, in association with the Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA)

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SPECIAL SESSION: The latest edition in the acclaimed collaborative webinar programme run by The Asia Pacific Travel Retail Association (APTRA) and The Moodie Davitt Report, this special session concludes APTRA’s acclaimed APAC Dialogue series that has run so successfully throughout 2021. Hosted by APTRA President Sunil Tuli, it will feature top-name speakers drawn from across the industry spectrum.

The session will kick off with an overview of market prospects and key challenges by APTRA President Sunil Tuli. He will be followed by Lagardère Travel Retail North Asia CEO Eudes Fabre in a dialogue with The Moodie Davitt Report Chairman Martin Moodie. Fabre will address:
* Duty free in China: diversification and digitalisation
* Beyond duty free: travel retail in domestic airports and high-speed rail

This promises to be a fascinating session, especially given Lagardère Travel Retail’s recent tie-up with Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com in China.

Next up, a panel of esteemed speakers will examine market prospects for travel retail in Australia and New Zealand – two countries hit hard by their respective governments’ hard-line stance on border closures. Heinemann Australia Managing Director Richard Goodman, who is also Chairman of the Board at the Australian Duty Free Association, will be joined by Lucy Thomas, Head of Retail at Auckland Airport; Susan Gray, Managing Director of Concession Planning International; and Ivo Favotto, Founder & CEO of leading sector research and analysis company The Mercurius Group.

Ivo Favotto will then lead off what promises to be a fascinating concluding session that will examine the methodology behind – and question marks over – much travel retail industry research, both consumer and B2B. He will be joined by one of Australia’s foremost research providers, Neil Stollznow, Quantitative Director of StollzNow Research & Insights Advisory.