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Article: Duty free. (Middle East)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 IC Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Duty free shops and services in the 1990s have become big business. Shops have become more than simply space-fillers at airports, places to brighten up drab airport terminals where customers can while away their spare time waiting for flights and spend their travellers' cheques on tax free goods. Now they have become incorporated into the travelling experience, and can even affect travellers' decisions about which airport to fly from or to. And it is not just the airports that are benefiting. Airlines too have got in on the act and are now selling a wide range of goods available - far more than the three big sellers of the past, liquor, tobacco and perfume.
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