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.
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.
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.
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.
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.