INTERNATIONAL. The Moodie Davitt Report is delighted to announce the return in physical form of our long-established Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) + Hospitality Conference & Awards on 12-13 September after a four-year COVID-driven absence.
This year’s FAB will take place amid unprecedented interest in the airport F&B sector, culminating in travel retailer Dufry’s just-concluded merger with world food services number one Autogrill.
The Moodie Davitt Report is in talks with potential host airports for the 2023 event and will bring you details soon. Excitingly, in 2024 FAB will return to North America for the third time after highly succesful earlier editions in Toronto and Dallas.
Notably, FAB’s remit has been extended to feature wider airport hospitality services, including hotels and lounges.
The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie said, “F&B’s star is very much in the airport ascendency and the timing could not be any better for a return of the sector’s only global event. The role of F&B and other hospitality services, including airport hotels and lounges, has never been more important in the whole airport consumer experience.
“We are boosting our coverage of F&B significantly this year, doubling the frequency of our popular FAB newsletter from March and planning some important new projects. We will provide a dynamic, challenging and progressive conference agenda complemented by the only global recognition of excellence across the whole airport food & beverage and hospitality sectors. We can promise a top-class – make that FABulous – event.”
The last in-person FAB was held at Dallas Forth Worth International Airport in 2019 – the first time the event, founded in 2011, had been held in the USA. The FAB Awards, the only global recognition of excellence in airport food & beverage, attracted a record 302 entries.
The 2023 event will see not only the conference content extended to the wider airport hospitality sector but also the FAB Awards. The awards will also incorporate the hugely popular FAB Superstars Awards held virtually over the past two years to celebrate the critical role of staff in our industry.
{Click on the YouTube icon to view highlights of an unforgettable FAB 2019 hosted by Dallas Fort Worth International Airport}
{Listen to Dufry CEO Xavier Rossinyol speak to Martin Moodie about the Autogrill opportunity – from 03.35 – and the wider F&B and travel retail market in this compelling interview first shown at The Trinity Forum in Singapore last November}
Note (1): For all hosting, speaker, content and other enquiries please contact Jeannie Wong, The Moodie Davitt Report Asia Bureau Chief and Head of Marketing & Events at Jeannie@MoodieDavittReport.com or Vincci Chung, Associate Director, Events at Vincci@MoodieDavittReport.com
