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Retailers: Hoteliers of the Future

Smart Meetings

The hospitality industry is booming, and retailers are taking notice. Several retailers have picked up on this, pushing them to take a dip (for others, a dive) in the hospitality industry, where experience is everything. The Swedish retailer opened its doors in Almhult, Sweden, where IKEA was founded (and where you can also visit the IKEA museum and IKEA outlet store). That’s just the retail industry.

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How Retail Impacts Tourism and Vice Versa

Advanced Travel and Tourism

Retail stores are often good avenues to build upon a tourist’s visit and could possibly even extend their stay. Want to talk more with us about how your destination can leverage retail to boost tourism? Tourism can have a huge economic impact on any given community.

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Travelport launches Smartpoint Cloud, delivering an easier, more intuitive retail experience

Travel Daily News

As the only modern retailing platform built for agencies, Travelport+ will now deliver a more intuitive and efficient way for travel agents to sell and service travel, all while increasing sales of higher-value services for suppliers.

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JFK Terminal 4 and Hudson Roll Out Contactless Retail Concept

Business Traveler USA

A new multi-brand automated retail outlet has opened at John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4, thanks to a partnership between JFKIAT, the operator of T4, and travel retailer Hudson.

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10 Retail Activation Ideas to Get Your Small Business Booming

Eventbrite

The retail scene is changing, which means it’s up to business owners to adapt in order to attract customers and ultimately drive sales. With this in mind, let’s look at how to create a retail strategy that […].

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10 Retail Activation Ideas to Get Your Store Ready for Fall

Eventbrite

Through events, retailers have found creative ways to attract customers and ultimately […]. Eventbrite Halloween Retail Small business eventsCOVID-19 shifted consumerism, making online shopping the preferred choice since 2020.

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7 Retail Event Ideas that Celebrate Culture, Community, and Your Brand

Eventbrite

Whether you’re a new creator or you’re looking for new retail event ideas, cultural events like live performances or educational experiences can help you attract new customers, build relationships with […].

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How To Grow Your Retail Business With a Recurring Events Strategy

Eventtia

Whether brick-and-mortar or online, retail company executives constantly look for ways to attract and retain new customers. Standing out from the rest, increasing brand awareness, and communicating value are becoming crucial for survival, regardless of the retail industry or niche. The global retail industry will be around 31.7 In most cases, traditional marketing involves one-way communication, limiting the engagement and interaction between a retail brand and its audience.

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Key retail trends to enhance the hospitality experience post-Covid

EHL Insights

What can hospitality learn from retail when rethinking the customer experience? The retail sector is no stranger to having to adapt to new market conditions, with the competition from e-commerce. Will retail and hospitality still have lessons to learn from one another?

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Key retail trends to enhance the hospitality experience post-Covid

EHL Insights

What can hospitality learn from retail when rethinking the customer experience? The retail sector is no stranger to having to adapt to new market conditions, with the competition from e-commerce. Will retail and hospitality still have lessons to learn from one another?

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Retail Grand Opening Ideas: Craft an Event Customers Won’t Forget

Eventbrite

A grand opening isn’t just any other event — it’s your only chance at a first impression. Here are grand opening ideas to jumpstart your business. Resources and Tools Artists and Talent Email Event Design Facebook Fundraising Google Ideas

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TFWA President states ability to adapt and react will determine future of duty free and travel retail

Travel Daily News

After two years that threatened duty free and travel retail’s existence, it was inevitable the pandemic would bring change Juul-Mortensen spoke about how the concept of ‘going back to normal’ following the pandemic is no longer a possibility.

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Harper Dennis Hobbs appointed by Diamanti Per Tutti to launch into travel retail

Travel Daily News

Diamanti Per Tutti has grown its footprint this year, and the new partnership with Harper Dennis Hobbs will help promote its collections and exclusive travel range ‘Wanderlust’ to the retail travel sector

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How Walmart and Sam’s Club ‘Connected Together’ at 2022 Associates Week

Smart Meetings

Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light, an ongoing series of looks behind the scenes at how events are being produced today, we asked Paula Mettler Marketing and communications manager with Leo Events to share a look at a recent production for a major retailer.

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Leading retailers from across the globe confirm their presence at TFWA World Exhibition & Conference 2022

Travel Daily News

Held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes from 2nd to 6th October, TFWA World Exhibition & Conference will feature a refreshed event programme that includes a new, additional social element

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Engaging & Recognizing Retail Workers That Deliver the Immersive Experience Consumers Today Demand

ITA Group

Engaging & Recognizing Retail Workers That Deliver the Immersive Experience Consumers Today Demand. So let’s dig in and identify how to engage those retail workers who when engaged, according to Gallup , will drive a 10% increase in customer ratings.

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Small Meetings: F&B Insights from a Supplier

Smart Meetings

Concessions, meaning discounting to secure the business, are often seen in contractual percentages off F&B retail pricing or hosted events, but retail pricing has to fluctuate in order for the operators to meet their food/beverage cost targets [margin]. Food and beverage costs are increasingly taking a bigger slice of the meeting budget.

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Shop Local: Create and Sustain a Night on the Town

Eventbrite

Building Community Consumer Community Events Local RetailIn an increasingly electronically connected world, actual live, interpersonal connections can seem rarer than ever.

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Community Event Ideas: Let’s Shop Local

Eventbrite

Building Community Eventbrite Seasonal Community Events Festival RetailThere’s never been a better time to encourage the surrounding community to support local businesses — yours, most pressingly — but how do you get started?

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UAE and Saudi Arabia professionals showcase at Fruit Attraction 2022

Travel Daily Media

As part of the Guest Importing Country Programme, among the Middle East buyers represented were Panada Retail Company and Waha Fruits Trading. The post UAE and Saudi Arabia professionals showcase at Fruit Attraction 2022 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily.

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Heart of Gathering: Ryan Matthew Cohn Curates Unique Crowds at the Oddities Flea Market

Eventbrite

Building Community Eventbrite Eventbrite Features Heart of Gathering RetailIn Heart of Gathering, we shine a light on event creators who bring together niche communities and share their passions with the world.

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Planning the Perfect Christmas Festival to Celebrate With Your Community

Eventbrite

Eventbrite Boost Holidays Seasonal Creator Spotlight Holiday Events RetailPlanning a Christmas festival is a great way to boost your brand, but since Christmas falls during an event-heavy time of the year, it’s important to make sure that your event stands out.

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Return from Colorado in Some Western Duds

Smart Meetings

Destinations activity boot barn boots boulder cavender's clothes colorado colorado springs country cowboy cowgirl denver do fun group high horse horseback meeting new old outdoor outfit ranch red wing shoes retail shoes shop shopping things to tough luck west western whatBoulder, Colorado and Denver may be the “New West.” But there’s still a lot of the Old West, there, too, and a lot of places where you can pick up some real Western duds, pardner. Here are some particularly good ones.

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MEADFA Conference welcomes strong number of attendees to Bahrain

Travel Daily News

The MEADFA Awards recognise innovative and world-class duty free and travel retail specialists in the Middle East and Africa region

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Saudi Arabia’s Aseer Region hosted first investment forum

Travel Daily News

A number of investment opportunities will be explored across key sectors which include hospitality, retail and experience activities. The forum will also include the signing of several Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) across these sectors

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ASUTIL Conference to return in June, managed by TFWA

Travel Daily News

The event will begin on Wednesday 7th June with industry leaders speaking on some of the prevalent topics affecting the duty free and travel retail industry at the titular conference

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Initial Indications of an Overall Optimistic 2017 Holiday Fulfillment Period

BizBash

Initial indications point to the 2017 holiday fulfillment period looking to be a rather good year for the retail industry and its supplier and services stakeholders. Consumer Goods Focused Supply Chain Online Customer Fulfillment Retail Supply Chain Sales and Operations Planning Transportation and Logistics 2017 holiday fulfillment period trends Supply chain Matters blog

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August 16, 2018: Emmys to Forego Seated Dinner and Introduce New Theme for Governors Ball, Instagrammable Pop-Up Museums Might Be the Future of Retail, Why More Brands Are Getting Into the Hospitality Business

BizBash

EMMYS TO FOREGO SEATED DINNER, INTRODUCE NEW THEME FOR GOVERNORS BALL: The Television Academy’s annual Governors Ball, which will

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TFWA confirms programme of live and online events in 2023

Travel Daily News

Towards the end of the year will be TFWA World Exhibition & Conference, duty free and travel retail’s global summit, which last year saw 6,000 delegates convene in Cannes.

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See How Gucci, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton Do Pop-Ups

BizBash

The luxury fashion brands spoke to shoppers' decreased attention spans with limited-time retail experiences

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Future Travel Experience Dublin Awards 2022 winners announced

Travel Daily News

The winners across the four award categories, including the FTE Airline/Airport Transformation Power Lists EMEA, FTE World Ancillary Award, FTE World Airport Retailing Award, FTE Startup Innovation Award

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Designing Hotel and Restaurant Concepts

EHL Insights

A flagship course of EHL’s executive school, it specializes in expanding concept mindsets with regards to hotel, restaurant and retail spaces. Designing Hotel and Restaurant Concepts is a 3-day short course taught on EHL Campus (Singapore) by Youri Sawerschel.

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Sabre and American Airlines set to go live with NDC content

Travel Daily News

We are committed to providing our customers with a modern, seamless retailing experience across all channels,” said Thomas Rajan , vice president, global sales at American Airlines.

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How to Create Black Friday Discount Codes for Your Event

Eventbrite

Having travelaed across the water from the US, Black Friday has become an integral part of many UK retail marketing strategies – both offline and online.

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Leading industry figures in the Middle East and Africa to take to the stage at the MEADFA Conference in November

Travel Daily News

Running across two days, the conference will visit a number of trends as international travel restarts, with sessions on ‘Travel in a new world’, ‘Reimagining Tourism’, ‘Futureproofing retail’, ‘Defending our industry’ and more

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Engage Your Community with a Bakery Event

Eventbrite

Real-life bakery owners face fierce competition from other retailers, and research shows that competition is set to get even stiffer. Cake rivalries aren’t just for reality TV.

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This Austin Event Used Roller Skating to Bring a Community Together

BizBash

Domain Northside, a mixed-use retail and residential property in Austin, hosts events each month, but this fall they wanted something

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Incentive Trips Expand to Address Burnout Beyond Sales Team

Smart Meetings

The height of the Covid outbreak was an extremely stressful time for retail teams across the country. A major home-improvement retailer recognized their management team was on the verge of burnout. Historically, incentive trips are typically reserved for a company’s sales team.

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How to Choose the Right Virtual Event Platform

InEvent

Retailers directed their interest to eCommerce, optimizing their websites, increasing eCommerce search usability, speeding up the stores to handle traffic growth, etc.

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Resources for Planning Intentionally

Smart Meetings

The shop will soon open a walk-up retail space in Seattle Convention Center’s Summit building. Where we spend our event budget matters, but meeting professionals already have full-time jobs.

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TFWA President calls for unity and stronger working relationships to maintain post-pandemic momentum

Travel Daily News

With the return of TFWA World Exhibition & Conference as a physical event, TFWA President Jaya Singh said he hoped the week would create a space in which insightful conversations would be shared and the spirit of co-operation would be strengthened in order to power the duty free and travel retail industry’s recovery.

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Live Shopping Events: 5 Keys to Getting Started With Success

Eventtia

On November 24, 2022, we were delighted to host a new Get Together Live session , with Mauricio Palacio, CEO at Eventtia, Marc Sorli, Head of Live Commerce at Multiplica and Laurent Dunys, CEO and cofounder at Shoply.

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The Benefits of Utilizing User-Generated Content for Tourism

Dana Communications

Retailers, small businesses, restaurants and more are leveraging UGC, and tourism is no different. Across industries, user-generated content (UGC) has become a key marketing tool. But first, what is user-generated content?

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