TFWA Upgrades Discussion on Airline Liquids Restrictions

Source from:  tr.itsmyiq.com Sep 25, 2007 09/26/2007

Delegates, exhibitors and visitors to the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes next month are being invited to attend the plenary conference session and a series of segment-specific workshops that will discuss matters crucial to the future development of the global duty free and travel retail industry. Concerted efforts are being made by the industry to ensure that restrictions on the onboard carriage of liquids, gels, pastes and aerosols (LAGs), imposed as an anti-terrorist measure in August last year, do not prevent duty free and travel retail sales from continuing at airports. A measure of the importance being attached to this issue is its promotion from the subject of a workshop in the original conference schedule to a matter for discussion at the plenary session. Also, all exhibition badge holders, not just conference delegates, are being encouraged to attend, and no pre-registration will be required. Following an address at the plenary session on October 22 by TFWA President, Erik Juul-Mortensen, entitled, 'State of the Travel Retail Industry at 60', Frank O'Connell, president of the European Travel Retail Council, will update the industry on the latest developments in the LAG campaign, outline some technological solutions that might be employed, and inform the industry of the action it needs to take to facilitate future duty free and travel retail sales. Enditem