{"id":6018,"date":"2015-07-13T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2015-08-10T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T10:02:37","slug":"lagos-airport-set-for-duty-free-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/lagos-airport-set-for-duty-free-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Airport set for duty free upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gebr Heinemann and Tourvest Duty Free have partnered to operate duty-free concessions in three Nigerian airports \u2013 Murtala Muhammed International airport in Lagos, Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Abuja and Port Harcourt International airport in Omagwa.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/tourvest-inflight-retail-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tourvest<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/heinemann-duty-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heinemann<\/a> Duty Free joint-venture, in which Tourvest is the majority stakeholder, is readying the opening of an approx 350-467sq m departures store and a 65sq m arrivals store in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/lagos-airport-duty-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lagos<\/a> following a few delays Gebr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/heinemann-duty-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heinemann<\/a> sales director BeNeLux\/Africa Stephan Van Groningen told trade magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfnionline.com\" target=\"_blank\">DFNI<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThere were a few hiccups but we now hope to open the stores by mid-July,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership holds the concessions on\u00a0five-year leases with an option to extend by another five and plans to open stores in Abuja and Port Harcourt over the next two years. \u201c\u201dWe are opening Lagos first and we will see how it works before planning and designing the stores at the other two airports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have an official opening [in Lagos] after the summer holidays with many promotions to get customers used to a different retail experience. Until now I don\u2019t think they had the opportunity for a real duty-free experience in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/lagos-airport-duty-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lagos airport<\/a>,\u201d said Van Groningen.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will operate alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/dufry-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dufry Group<\/a>, which also holds a concession in Lagos. \u201cLagos airport is very much like Amsterdam Schiphol\u2019s old terminal with two main entrances that split left and right. We are on the left and [Dufry] is on the right,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/tourvest-inflight-retail-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tourvest<\/a> &amp;\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfnionline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><u>www.DFNIonline.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Match your journey via Lagos Airport to the shopping along your whole route with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.dutyfreehunter.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6021\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-680x383.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o.jpg 800w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6021 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Plans for the redevelopment of Lagos Airport\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Plans for the redevelopment of Lagos Airport\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o-680x383.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11698913_1136759536384174_2336630986458794931_o.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Plans for the redevelopment of Lagos Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gebr Heinemann and Tourvest Duty Free have partnered to operate duty-free concessions in three Nigerian airports \u2013 Murtala Muhammed International airport in Lagos, Nnamdi Azikiwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[302,69,169,626,506],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-dufry-duty-free","tag-duty-free","tag-heinemann","tag-lagos-airport","tag-tourvest"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","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=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}