IAADFS ‘Educational’ session well attended

By Doug Newhouse |

Top Pancho Motta, President of IAADFS

Pancho Motta, IAADFS President.

This year’s IAADFS Duty Free Show of the Americas kicked off this morning with a new-style Educational Session introduced by IAADFS President Pancho Motta. As reported, this has been created by IAADFS in response to calls for more insights and research.

The value of the event was immediately evident at the event today, judging by the several hundred attendees who duly attended.

This featured two excellent presentations by Angela Gittens, Director General of Airports Council International and Peter Mohn owner & CEO of the m1nd-set research company.

Gittens began by providing a statistical review of passenger traffic in 2015, highlighting the winners and the losers, plus airport key performance indicators, while Moen delivered a presentation entitled TR&DF Consumer Insights, based on recent research by the company.

 

Pancho Motta, President of IAADFS

IAADFS President introduced this year’s new Educational Session to a packed audience undeterred by the 08.00am start.

 

ROBUST RESEARCH

Much of Gittens’ presentation drew on robust research from ACI, plus some already covered by TRBusiness, while other interesting material can also be found in her exclusive and extensive interview in the March issue of TRBusiness [now available].

[To view the detailed press release covering many of the traffic statistics referred to this morning click here: http://www.aci.aero/News/Releases/Most-Recent/2016/04/03/ACI-releases-preliminary-world-airport-traffic-rankings-].

[To view the ‘Airport Economics Report and Key Performance Indicators’ release, click here: http://www.aci.aero/News/Releases/Most-Recent/2016/03/07/ACI-releases-the-20th-edition-of-the-Airport-Economics-Report-and-Key-Performance-Indicators].

Angela Gittens, Director General of Airports Council International

Angela Gittens, Director General of Airports Council International.

STRONG PASSENGER GROWTH

In her presentation today, Gittens pointed to strong 2015 passenger traffic growth in all regions except Africa, compared with weak air freight around the world, except in the Middle East. She said the industry was economically healthy, as mature markets have bounced back while emerging markets have remained resilient.

Looking at the regions, Gittens said that Asian passenger traffic grew by +8% for the region as a whole last year with robust increases in key markets, including Thailand +21.2%; India +16.4%; Korea +10.7%; Hong Kong +8.3%; China +8%; and Japan +4%.

By contrast, European traffic highlights in 2015 saw a +5.2% increase for the region as a whole with Ireland +13.2%; Portugal +11%; Italy +7.3%; Spain +5.9%; Germany +4.6%; UK +4.5%; and France +2.8%.

Meanwhile, Latin America-Caribbean passenger traffic highlights saw the region grow by +5.4% as a whole, with Mexico leading the growth league with +12.6%, followed by Colombia +10.2%; Argentina +8.3%; and Brazil trailing way down at +0.5%.

Middle East passenger traffic highlights saw Oman lead the rest with +17.3%, followed by Qatar with 17.1%; the UAE with +11%; and Saudi Arabia with +2.5%. Meanwhile, the North America passenger traffic saw the region grow by +5.3% as a whole, with +3.7% growth in Canada.

AIRPORT PERFORMANCE DATA

Turning to 2014, Gitttens then looked at some of the economic performance data for airports showing the global share of revenue for airports led by Europe with 36%, Asia Pacific 29%, North America 19%; Middle East 8%; Latin America Caribbean 6%; and Africa 2%.

Peter Mohn owner & CEO of the M1nd-set

Peter Mohn, Owner & CEO of m1nd-set.

In the same year she said that aeronautical revenue accounted for 55.5% globally, ahead of non-aeronautical revenue with 40.4% and non-operating revenue at 4.0%.

 

In terms of the distribution of non-aeronautical revenue by source, Gittens pointed to retail concessions out in front with 28%, followed by car parking 22%; property and real estate revenue or rent 15%; fuel and oil 14%; car rental 7%; food and beverage 6%; utility recharges 3%; advertising 3%; and other 2%.

In terms of duty free revenues per international passenger – relating to 2013 – the Middle East came in top with $8.97, followed by Asia Pacific with $3.09; Europe $2.77; Latin America-Caribbean $2.68; and North America bringing up the rear with $1.50. The average spend worldwide is calculated at $2.81.

 

CONSUMER INSIGHTS – NORTH AMERICA

By contrast, Peter Mohn’s presentation concentrated on TR&DF Consumer Insights in North America & Caribbean and this will be covered in even more detail at the second educational session due to be covered tomorrow morning.

Mohn took the audience through his excellent presentation which TRBusiness is pleased to be able to show here in full just a few hours after the presentation – courtesy of m1nd-set.

Peter Mohn said that while some of the DF&TR data is based on 2014, the new Generation preliminary numbers on 2015 will be coming out shortly and will show some interesting shifts in market shares amongst the major product categories. As reported previously, m1nd-set has a strategic partnership with Generation Research.

[Our thanks again to Peter Mohn for making the following data fully available for our readers, although please note that the copyright to these figures and charts belongs to m1nd-set].

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