To find out if your airline offers an on board duty free shopping program and to track down the brands and bargains as you travel please visit the home page of Duty Free Hunter and enter in the details of your journey – its as simple as that!
Duty Free Hunter is a truly ground-breaking service for travellers looking to do their duty free shopping at airports and in-flight. For the first time we have married global air schedules against the most comprehensive list of duty free and other airport stores providing a one-stop place for travellers to plan and prepare their duty free shopping journey.
Clearly having the most accurate and up to date information on the airlines and airports that transport passengers is essential. To this end we have partnered with the world’s leading flight schedule authority, Innovata, to ensure we know exactly who flies where.
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Equally important is the database of stores operating inside each terminal at every airport. Here our own specialist database of the duty free and travel retail industry, The Decision Makers, has led the way. Alma Media, owner of Duty Free Hunter, has been at the heart of the duty free business for over 25 years and taking that knowledge has created a global registry of the shops and retailers who are serving travellers in the ground and in the air as they travel.
Our aim is to keep this database as up to date as possible so if you spot something that is missing or incorrect please let us know via our contact form.
The duty free industry is something of a business phenomenon. In just 60 or so years the business has spread from the very first shop at Ireland’s Shannon Airport to a global industry with total sales in excess of US$65bn, there are now duty free stores beyond the airport too with downtown, border stores, ferry and cruise terminals all taking advantage of low or no sales tax opportunities to sell to travellers away from their own countries.
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This development has gone hand in hand with the huge increases in the number of air passengers – something like 5bn journeys will be made by air this year and at least half will involve international passengers and therefore offer the chance to enjoy duty-free shopping to the full. This ongoing boom has meant a constant need for airports to expand and improve to handle the numbers and needs of the modern passenger – and retail had now become an essential part of any new or redeveloped terminal project.
At the forefront are the international hubs with London Heathrow, Dubai International, Hong Kong International, Paris Charles De Gaulle and Singapore Changi as the top 5 in terms of traffic (2013 figures). Partnering with the airports are the major duty-free retailers, companies such as DFS, Dufry, LS Travel Retail (Aelia), Lotte Duty Free, Heinemann Duty Free, World Duty Free, Nuance, Shilla Duty Free, Duty Free Americas and Aer Rianta run multiple stores in locations across the globe. In addition, some retailers stick to a single location, for example Dubai Duty Free and Qatar Duty Free.
As terminals have expanded so has the retail mix and now you will find individual boutiques for the world’s finest luxury brands such as Chanel, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Estee Lauder, MAC cosmetics, Victoria’s Secret, Lancome run their own stores in major airports around the world.
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What you see of DUTY FREE HUNTER today is really just the beginning. At the moment we can tell a traveller exactly what shopping opportunities will be available to them during their journey and link them to the various online stores of the companies and brands in each terminal. Our next development will take this information and give the passenger the chance to search for individual products, allowing them to compare prices, ranges and lines at every part of their duty-free journey. Beyond that we can also facilitate pre-ordering and purchases by connecting our website visitors to the retailers and airlines around the world.HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card Fast track to Star Alliance Gold Status with the HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card and unlock a world of global travel benefits. Fee, charges, min spend, and T&C's apply. Australian Credit License 232595. Apply now
Last month, Hyun Jung-a boarded a flight from South Korea’s Incheon Airport. Around two hours later, she was back in the same airport and loading up on duty-free shopping, despite never landing in another country.
The Air Busan flight, organized by Lotte Duty Free for its VIP customers, was Hyun’s first since the pandemic began and it didn’t cost her a cent.
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Because the route briefly departed Korean airspace and went over a Japanese island, the 130 passengers on board qualified to shop at duty-free stores in Seoul typically reserved for people who have traveled internationally.
Before the virus, business was booming – the global duty-free market was worth US$85 billion in 2019 and on track to reach US$139 billion by 2027, according to Verified Market Research.
Globally, only 1.8 billion people took scheduled flights last year compared with 4.5 billion in 2019, the International Civil Aviation Organization has said. Annual revenue for Swiss duty-free giant Dufry, which operates outlets worldwide, fell 71%.
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“I saw a lot of people with bags full of duty-free items, ” said Hyun, who bought a Chanel bag, shoes and cosmetics.
Hotel Shilla, South Korea’s second-biggest duty-free operator after Lotte, is offering 114 seats on two so-called flights to nowhere on May 23 and 30 to customers who have spent more than US$550 at its stores since May 3. Lotte is putting on another five flights this month.
The palm-fringed Chinese island of Hainan has become an even more popular getaway for tourists from the mainland now starved of international travel.
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That’s helped the province’s duty-free sales, which more than doubled to 27.5 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion) last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
Duty-free shopping has been permitted for domestic tourists in Hainan since 2011. In July, the government raised the spending limit to allow people to buy more and it is extending some duty-free shopping to Beijing, Shanghai and other cities to tap the growing purchasing power trapped in China.
Catering to the demand in Hainan, Alibaba Group’s logistics unit is starting daily cargo flights from Singapore to deliver cosmetics, handbags and other goods to the island.
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Japan’s leading duty-free retailer, Laox, which was acquired by Chinese retailer Suning Holdings in 2009, is planning to enter Hainan as soon as the second half of this year, setting up stores designed similarly to its outlets in Japan.
“The trend of visiting Hainan to do luxury shopping is here to stay for the Chinese, ” said Jonathan Siboni, chief executive officer of data-intelligence firm Luxurynsight.
International air travel, if it is happening at all, is tending toward shorter-haul, regional routes, and from places where vaccination programs are at a more advanced stage.
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Seven of the world’s busiest international routes in the first four months of the year included U.S. links, such as Cancun-Houston and New York-Santo Domingo, according to aviation analytics company Cirium.
Paris-based Lagardere Travel Retail, which operates duty-free stores, restaurants and other shops in airports, is counting on customers from closer to home to help it through an uncertain summer in Europe after its revenue slid 56% from a year earlier to €341 million (US$414 million) in the first three months.
“We’re betting more on retired Europeans traveling, ” said Frederic Chevalier, the company’s chief operating officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa. McKinsey forecasts passenger flows between Asia and Europe will only return to 2019 levels “beyond 2024, ” said Anita Balchandani, a partner at the firm.
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With vaccination rates lagging in places such as South Korea – which has delivered enough jabs for just 4% of the population – retailers may rely on gimmicks like flights to nowhere for a while.
“The contribution from the flights to nowhere is small but it’s better than having nothing, ” said Sung Junewon, an analyst at Shinhan Investment in Seoul. “Every little bit counts.”
Authorities are also considering plans to allow overseas flights into Incheon, where passengers can spend a few hours shopping without leaving the airport before flying back to their original departure point.
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Park Ju-hyun, a 31-year-old office worker from Seoul, paid about 90, 000 won (US$80) for a flight-to-nowhere ticket in March.It was her first time on a plane since a trip to the Philippines before the pandemic, and it was well worth it for the shopping, said Park, who spent about US$600, mostly on cosmetics.
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