Duty-free perfumes, cigarettes or Toblerones are no longer making money: sales in airport duty free flights have fallen by 13% since Covid Until a few years ago, it was a must at airports. The duty-free shops, with their many products such as perfumes, cigarettes and chocolates sold without any tax, were full. But since the end of the covid health crisis, sales have collapsed. While air traffic has almost returned to the level of 2019, "the Covid crisis has abruptly interrupted a decade of strong and steady growth (+9% per year) in the retail market in the travel sector", reads a study* by Kearney published on the occasion of the Tax Free World Association trade show. In concrete terms, the ... [Read more]