The Airport F&B + Hospitality Conference & Awards (FAB)

Have you booked your place at the world’s number one event for airport food & beverage and hospitality yet? The Moodie Davitt Report’s Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) + Hospitality Conference & Awards takes place in Ontario, California on 25-26 June. We hope to see you there. Access all the details via the event preview below. If you have any questions, please reach out to The Moodie Davitt Report’s Irene Revilla, Maya Feeney or Mark Lane on LinkedIn, or visit the event website via the link below, where you will find contacts for further information. Alternatively, leave a comment in reply to this post and we'll get straight back to you. You can also directly register for the event via the event website. #travelretail #foodandbeverage #airports #hospitality

YVR is proud to be the winner of two 2024 FAB Awards! ⭐ Our Season's Eatings campaign took home Airport Customer/Hospitality Initiative and Paper Planes Cafe in partnership with Pacific Autism Family Network won highly commended for Airport Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year. A big thank you to all our team's for making these incredible initiatives possible. The Moodie Davitt Report More: https://lnkd.in/eWHmeCpa . . YVR est fier d'être le lauréat de deux prix FAB 2024 ! ⭐ Notre campagne de plats festifs a remporté le prix de l'initiative d'accueil/clientèle aéroportuaire et Paper Planes Cafe, en partenariat avec @pacificautism, a été hautement recommandé pour l'initiative de l'année en matière de diversité, d'équité et d'inclusion aéroportuaire. Un grand merci à toutes nos équipes pour avoir rendu ces initiatives incroyables possibles. The Moodie Davitt Report Plus: https://lnkd.in/eWHmeCpa

A recommended insight-packed article for you here, as our President Dermot Davitt presents highlights from one of the outstanding sessions at the Airport Food & Beverage + Hospitality Conference last week. The profitability of airport concessions in North America – and of the role that local, national and proprietary brands play in this – was the central theme. Making excellent contributions were Paradies Lagardère Executive Vice President David Bisset, Concord Collective/Enjoy Repeat and Fly with Breeze CEO Greg “GP” Plummer, San Diego International Airport Director, Revenue Generation & Partnership Development Deanna and Airport Restaurant & Retail Association Executive Director Andrew Weddig. Access the thought-provoking highlights of the session via the link below. #travelretail #airports #foodandbeverage #hospitality Elisa Grey, Atif Elkadi https://lnkd.in/e5StJGNq

News of a major F&B opportunity here, as Hong Kong International Airport today issues a Request for Proposals for an airside sit-down restaurant. The large outlet will be located in the Terminal 1 arrivals meeters and greeters hall. Access further details via the link. #travelretail #airports #foodandbeverage Cissy Chan Adrian Cheung Airport Authority Hong Kong https://lnkd.in/eeuVQvYi

Travel restaurateur Areas has completed what it describes as a “gastronomic transformation” at Menorca Airport on the Balearic Islands, with the opening of four new food & beverage venues over 1,600sq m. See details and images of the concessions via the link. #travelretail #foodandbeverage #airports Luis Castilla Sergio Rodríguez Blanca López Alerm Mathieu Herrero Óscar Vela Nebot https://lnkd.in/eWwQPTx8

Es para nosotros un gran orgullo reconocer a Daniela Solis Saravia, Gerente General de F&B del Aeropuerto Internacional de Guadalajara, quien fue nominada en The Airport F&B + Hospitality Conference & Awards (FAB) y quién en representación de Areas México ha sido reconocida como la 🏆 ganadora en la categoría ⭐ Star Individual Americas: Front of House. Areas #FABAwards #AreasSpirit #SpiritOfExcellence #Areas #Areasméxico

Sky The Lounge at las Americas International Airport was Highly Commended in the Airport Lounge Food & Beverage Offering of the year category at the FAB Awards in Ontario last week. Thanks to all our team members, managers, airport operator, customers , suppliers, etc. involved in our daily operation. Before Boarding Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom) Thank you to the panel of judges, Martin Moodie, & Dermot Davitt, and their team on a very successful event. The Airport F&B + Hospitality Conference & Awards (FAB)

Great to see all the nice feedback coming in on last week’s FAB 2024 event in Ontario, California here on LinkedIn. The thing that stands out to me about the event is the friendliness of the people who attend, the willingness to share ground-breaking ideas and insights with competitors, and the general airport F&B and hospitality community spirit that surrounds it. I am pictured with three of those people at FAB below; it was great to meet face to face people I admire who I have interviewed from afar and also some of those I would like to interview in the future. Sammy Patel (top left), Vice President, Commercial & CEO, Midway Partnership @ Vantage Group, gave me one of my best interviews last year, sharing superbly detailed insights into the strategy behind the stunning new retail and F&B programme at Kansas City International Airport. Pictured top right is iCoupon CEO Richard Bye who gave me a terrific interview earlier this year about how his innovative intelligent vouchering platform came from nowhere to penetrate the airline and airport market across the globe. The final image is with JFK International Air Terminal Vice President Customer Experience Belinda Jain, who, in a lengthy conversation, shared with me the thinking behind the development of world-class retail, F&B and passenger service concepts featuring a distinctive New York sense of place at her airport. That’s an interview I’d love to do when the work is complete. If you didn’t attend FAB this year, you should give it a try next year; I guarantee you will not be disappointed. We hope to announce an exciting venue for FAB 2025 soon. In the meantime, please follow this link to read my live feed from FAB 2024, and discover the winners of our FAB Awards and FAB Superstars Awards: https://lnkd.in/e_zPKEve Follow the LinkedIn event page and keep up to date with the major developments in airport F&B and hospitality here: The Airport F&B + Hospitality Conference & Awards (FAB). If you were at FAB this year, it would be great to hear from you in the comments below. #travelretail #airports #foodandbeverage

Global intelligent vouchering platform iCoupon has broken into the South American market via partnerships with retail and food & beverage companies across 22 airports. The platform’s contact-free technology applies vouchers directly to passengers’ boarding passes in the case of flight disruption, removing the need for physical vouchers or complicated download processes. iCoupon was Highly Commended in the Airport Customer/Hospitality Initiative of the Year category for the second consecutive year at the FAB Awards in Ontario last week. #travelretail #airports #foodandbeverage Richard Bye Viktoriya Soubra https://lnkd.in/eg_J_f8W

Great to be back at The Airport F&B + Hospitality Conference & Awards (FAB) in Ontario. Looking forward to hearing all the insights and news from our industry.