AUSTRALASIA. The second edition of the Australian Airports Association (AAA) Retail & Commercial Forum – being staged at the Sofitel Brisbane on 17-19 July – is set to feature an expanded awards programme. Nominations are currently being sought with a deadline of 9 June.
The awards take place at the event Gala Dinner, and follow the success of the initiative at last year’s inaugural event.
Organised by the AAA, The Moodie Davitt Report and The Mercurius Group, the Forum brings together key players in the airport non-aeronautical commercial sector from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
The 2023 awards programme, sponsored by travel retail industry data analytics firm tRetail Labs*, will feature seven awards across three categories:
Category 1 – Career Achievement
These two awards seek to recognise long term and outstanding contributions from individuals to the airport commercial sector. One award is for airport commercial managers and the other is for concessionaires.
- Career Achievement Award – Airports (Nominate here)
- Career Achievement Award – Concessionaires. (Nominate here)
Category 2 – Concessionaire/Airport/Supplier of the Year
These three awards seek to recognise stakeholder feedback on organisations. Airports will be asked to nominate concessionaires and concessionaires will be asked to nominate both airports and suppliers.
- Concessionaire of the Year [duty free, specialty, F&B, Forex, car rental etc] Award (Nominate here)
- Airport/Landlord of the Year Award (Nominate here)
- Supplier of the Year Award (Nominate here)
Category 3 – Team Member Recognition
These two awards seek to recognise the key role of customer-facing and back-of-house team members who have gone above and beyond.
- Customer Facing Team Member Recognition Award (Nominate here)
- Back-of-House Team Member Recognition Award (Nominate here)
The judging for the seven awards will be carried out by a panel made up of representatives from the AAA, The Moodie Davitt Report and The Mercurius Group.
The awards will be presented at the Forum Gala Dinner on Tuesday 18 July 2023 at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Nominations close 5pm AEST, Friday 9 June 2023.
Registration to attend the Forum is now open via the AAA website here.
*tRetail Labs is a travel tech firm specialising in the travel retail and duty free industry.
Via its Enterprise SaaS platform called nRture, tRetail Labs aims to unlock actionable intelligence for the duty free industry by implementing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that will automatically analyse big data models to forecast and predict contextual travel retail insights.
nRture powers smarter decision making by creating a new industry metric, Spend Per Route, that augment conversion, basket size, and revenue.
For further comment or details on the event and for Australasian sponsorship opportunities, please contact:
Ivo Favotto
The Mercurius Group
ifavotto@themercuriusgroup.com
+61 423564057
For international brand sponsorship opportunities please contact:
Irene Revilla Irene@MoodieDavittReport.com
Sarah Genest: Sarah@MoodieDavittReport.com
Aran Turner: Aran@MoodieDavittReport.com 
