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Lotte Duty Free, Shilla Duty Free among global top 5: report

By Yonhap

Published : July 18, 2019 - 10:53

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Two South Korean duty-free operators have cemented their positions in the world's top five travel retailers in 2018, an industry report showed Thursday.

Lotte Duty Free maintained its second spot with 6.09 billion euros ($6.84 billion) in sales last year, due largely to the Chinese resellers who buy products in large quantities and sell them back home, according to the Moodie Davitt report. 


(Yonhap) (Yonhap)

Shilla Duty Free, the operator of the duty-free shop owned by South Korea's Hotel Shilla Co., leaped forward to third place from fifth after recording 5.47 billion euros in sales.

The Shilla Duty Free enjoyed a stellar year in 2018 to overtake Lagardere Travel Retail, which slipped to fifth even with a strong annual performance, the report said.

Industry powerhouse Swiss-based Dufry DG maintained its market leadership, four years after taking over the No. 1 status from DFS Group, it added.

The report said the stellar growth of the two South Korean heavyweights is noteworthy as the number of Chinese package tour travelers to South Korea has continued to drop after the travel ban imposed by Beijing in 2017 in protest of Seoul's hosting of a US missile defense system, known as THAAD. (Yonhap)

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