{"id":13930,"date":"2016-06-20T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=13930"},"modified":"2016-06-20T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:20:14","slug":"worlds-largest-apple-travel-retail-experience-opens-dubai-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/worlds-largest-apple-travel-retail-experience-opens-dubai-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG Apple: Dubai unveils world&#8217;s largest Apple shops in travel retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new Apple shops have been officially opened at Dubai Duty Free in Dubai International Airport\u2019s Terminal 3, and are said to be the largest in travel retail in the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two Apple shop programs have just opened their doors at Dubai Duty Free in Dubai International Airport\u2019s T3 next to gate B15 &amp; A12, covering a footprint of prime retail space of 86 &amp; 70 m2 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The official opening in Concourse B was attended by senior executives from both Dubai Duty Free and Apple with the ceremonial ribbon cutting carried out by Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman &amp; Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Duty Free and David Chisholm, Apple Director of Sales for Apple Middle East &amp; Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop-300x191.jpg 300w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13931 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop.jpg\" alt=\"Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop\" width=\"571\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-opening-apple-shop-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the opening, Colm McLoughlin said \u201cWith the Apple shop program in Concourse B being the largest in any travel retail in the world, this is a very exciting development for Dubai Duty Free and our customers. They will enjoy the design, layout and products, along with a first class customer experience and product knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dubai Duty Free and Apple have assigned dedicated staff members to the Apple Shop Programs at Dubai International Airport who have all undergone extensive product training by Apple to deliver an amazing customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>Since the opening of the new Apple shop programs it has already resulted in an increase in sales of 8% for Apple products, a figure which is expected to rise further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our current sales projections, we expect Apple sales to reach Dhs220 million (US$61 million) this year,\u201d added McLoughlin.<\/p>\n<p>The new Apple shop programs in Terminal 3 offer the full Apple ecosystem including the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple watch, the MacBook range, Apple TV and Apple accessories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm-300x238.jpg 300w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13932 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm.jpg\" alt=\"Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm\" width=\"571\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Colm-McLoughlin-with-David-Chisholm-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple opened its first store in the Middle East in October at Dubai\u2019s Mall of the Emirates followed shortly after by one at Abu Dhabi\u2019s Yas Mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new Apple shops have been officially opened at Dubai Duty Free in Dubai International Airport\u2019s Terminal 3, and are said to be the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[838,2301,2302,149,1752,2303,2304],"class_list":["post-13930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-apple","tag-colm-mcloughlin","tag-david-chisholm","tag-dubai-duty-free","tag-dubai-international","tag-ipad-duty-free","tag-iphone-duty-free"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}