*MACAU selects Shilla/Sky Connection and King Power HK for their two duty free airport contracts. The 5-year contracts are scheduled to begin Nov. 7th, 2014 are combined worth an estimated $160m a year. A total of 5,027,170 passengers went through Macau International Airport in 2013 up from 4.4m in 2012. Top arriving customer nationalities last year were Mainland Chinese 1.6m, Taiwanese 1.3m and Thais 890k. For more information please follow this link.

*ISG – Inflight Sales Group (Hong Kong) has announced that it’s inlfight sales channel remains viable, relevant and profitable after Detla airlines released a statement earlier this month saying that it would halt duty free sales onborad. For more information please follow this link.

*JAPAN – Kyoto plans to take advantage of the Japanese government’s plan to double the number of duty-free shops in the country in time for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games. The government has also planned to simplify duty-free procedures for purchases in order to increase the number of international tourist spend. For more information please follow this link.