Insights and inspiration: Industry leaders prepare to gather at The Trinity Forum 2018 in Shanghai

CHINA. A powerful line-up of travel retail industry leaders and external experts will be heading up this year’s Trinity Forum in Shanghai on 31 October and 1 November.

The US$9 billion (at retail sales level, according to the Moodie Davitt Report’s Top 25 Travel Retailers 2017 Ranking) trio of China Duty Free Group President Charles Chen, Lagardère Travel Retail Chairman & CEO Dag Rasmussen and Dubai Duty Free Executive Vice Chairman Colm McLoughlin are among the senior figures set to take part in the world’s most influential airport commercial revenues conference.

Stellar line-up: China Duty Free Group President Charles Chen and Dubai Duty Free Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Colm McLoughlin.
Shanghai Airport Authority Chairman of the Board of Directors Yun Qin; Shanghai Airport Authority Vice President Ruijun Jia; and Shiseido General Manager – Travel Retail Asia Pacific Kenji Calméjane.
Broad reach: ACI World Director General Angela Gittens; Tito’s Handmade Vodka Managing Director International John McDonnell; and Groupe ADP Customer Division Director (and member of Executive Committee) Mathieu Daubert.

This year’s host, Shanghai Airport Authority, will be discussing exciting new terminal developments at Pudong International Airport and ambitious retail development plans at Shanghai’s airports. This follows the confirmation of a new seven-year concession for Sunrise Duty Free (Shanghai Co), which aims to establish a new benchmark in China’s travel retail sector.

Harrods Business Development Director Raj Assanand, Aéroports de Paris Group Customer Division Director Mathieu Daubert and Tito’s Handmade Vodka Managing Director International John McDonnell will be among the keynote speakers on the opening afternoon, offering their views on how the airport, tourist shopping and travel retail eco-system is evolving.

Emerging channels, new opportunities: AOE Chief Executive Officer Kian Gould and Budapest Airport Head of Retail & Advertising Dr. Patrick Bohl.
Auckland Airport Omnichannel Manager Jayne Wear; Airport Council International (ACI) ASQ Associate Director Dimitri Coll; and Mars International Travel Retail General Manager Gary Clarke.
The Boston Consulting Group China Partner and Managing Director Angela Wang and iClick Interactive (Asia) Limited Chief Product Officer Yan Lee.
Jessica’s Secret Founder, Chairman & CEO Mirko Wang and Jing Daily & Jing Travel Associate Editor Yiling Pan.

They will be followed on the second day of the conference by experts from within and outside the industry. Aireen Omar, Deputy Group CEO AirAsia; Beth Brewster, Executive Vice President at Manchester Airports Group; Jayne Wear, Omnichannel Manager at Auckland International Airport and Gerry Munday, Global Travel Retail Director, Furla are just some of the leading women and men who will be sharing insights on where the industry is heading.

A range of external experts will provide fresh perspectives on some of the major themes dominating our industry today. These include how technology is reshaping the industry, the challenge of winning over Chinese travelling consumers and the implications for brands of the changing digital landscape in China.

Manchester Airports Group Executive Vice President, Business Development & Lounges Beth Brewster; Greater Toronto Airports Authority Vice President, Customer & Terminal Services Scott Collier; and Central Japan International Airport Co., Ltd (Nagoya Airport) President & CEO Masanao Tomozoe.
Lagardère Travel Retail Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Dag Rasmussen; Altria International General Manager Michael Simon; and Furla Global Travel Retail Director Gerry Munday.
AirAsia Deputy Group CEO (Digital, Transformation and Corporate Services) Aireen Omar and Harrods Business Development Director Raj Assanand.
VGI Global Media Chief Operating Officer – Airports Jonathan Goldsmid and Moodie Insights General Manager Craig Mackie.
m1nd-set owner & CEO Peter Mohn and Japan Airport Terminal Co. Executive Vice President Hiroshi Onishi.

These key topics and more will be discussed by Angela Wang, Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group China; Yan Lee, Chief Product Officer at iClick Interactive; Mirko Wang, Founder, Chairman and CEO at Jessica’s Secret; Yiling Pan, Associate Editor at Jing Daily and Jing Travel and Kian Gould, CEO of AOE.

The Moodie Davitt Report’s Martin Moodie, Dermot Davitt and Michael Barrett.

We’ll profile other speakers in forthcoming updates. Click here for the full programme.

Platinum partners for the event include Lagardère Travel Retail, Diageo Global Travel, Dufry, L’Oréal Travel Retail, Mars Wrigley Confectionery International Travel Retail and Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail.

Gold partners include Al Fakher and Shiseido Travel Retail.

Silver partners include Dubai Duty Free, La Prairie, VGI Global Media and Victorinox.

Furla and Perricone MD are lunch partners.

Additional partners include CabinZero, Happy Socks, Lacoste, Travel Food Services (TFS), Leonidas, Tous, Godiva, Nestlé International Travel Retail, Oettinger Davidoff Group, MAG and Sweeps.

i免税中国 (literally ‘Love Duty Free, Love China’) is a media partner for the event.

To register for The Trinity Forum 2018, please click here.

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