NEWS/ANALYSIS: PHILIPPINES


Manila braced for new Luxe and T3 Fiesta duty free openings


Duty Free Philippines is preparing to open its Manila Airport T3 landside Fiesta store and Luxe Manila Bay downtown shop this year, as David Hayes reports.


Above: DFP is set to open new duty free shops this year.


D


uty Free Philippines (DFP) is expecting an upturn in revenue in 2018.


The state-run operator is


preparing to open two new duty free stores in Manila – one situated at Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport (T3 landside arrivals Fiesta) and another downtown (Luxe Duty Free) – in time for the peak summer tourist season. The new shops aim to serve the


Philippines’ two distinct travel retail markets. The Fiesta duty free landside


shop at T3 will target mainly Filipino customers, while Luxe Duty Free in Manila’s fast growing SM Mall of Asia entertainment and tourism


Still to be named, the airport’s T3 Fiesta shop will eventually occupy 10,500 sq m of existing retail space over the two floor levels and operate as a ‘downtown’ duty free outlet.


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district will cater to foreign visitors. Filipinos working and living


overseas along with foreign visitors have a duty free allowance that they are allowed to spend within a given time limit after arriving in the Philippines. They will be able to use the same arrivals allowance at the T3 landside store and Luxe Duty Free downtown store. “We started building our Manila


Airport T3 landside ‘downtown’ store in October,” says Bernadine ‘Dino’ R. Belmonte, Deputy General Manager for Operations, Duty Free Philippines, in an exclusive interview with TRBusiness. “It’s set to soft open in April or May


depending on the fit out, and then fully open with perfume, cosmetics and fashion as well in June. “Fashion brands have to see our


shop before they can do an inspection and the designing, but it’s easier for liquor, tobacco and confectionery brands – once they have retail space measurements they can come up with their display design.”


DFP’s new Fiesta store is under


construction in vacated retail premises in T3’s landside right hand corner area, as arriving passengers exit the building, next to the terminal’s multi-storey car park. The state enterprise will open


4,700 sq m on level one of its Manila Airport T3 Fiesta store this year and then construct and open 5,800 sq m on level two of the store in 2019.


Complementary businesses Still to be named, the new shop will eventually occupy 10,500sq m of existing retail space over the two floor levels and operate as a ‘downtown’ duty free outlet. “Level One will have perfume,


cosmetics and some fashion; also, duty free liquor, tobacco and confectionery; and a high end supermarket,” explains Belmonte. “Our T3 Fiesta ‘downtown’ store


will have a shopping mall ambience; we will have a single entrance open plan feeling so it’s welcoming. “Perfume and cosmetics will be at


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