London / Shanghai 31 May, 2012 - Today, China Travel Retail (CTR), the most focused networking event for travel retail brands, concessionaires and retailers targeting Chinese travellers, unveils the lists of world-class speakers and companies that will be involved in its inaugural event taking place in Shanghai on 24th and 25th July, 2012. 

Joining the Moodie Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie, who together with Deputy Publisher Dermot Davitt will moderate proceedings, will be a host of world renowned industry speakers and panellists including:

• Sinclair Lu -  President Hurun Report
• Wolfgang Weil - Chief Operations Officer, Xi'an Xianyang International Airport Ltd Co
• Jason Cha -  Executive VP and Head of The Shilla Duty Free Group
• David Au - Group Chief Marketing Officer Lifung Trinity Limited
• George Horan - President Dubai Duty Free
• Mathieu Daubert - Head of Retail Aéroports de Paris
• Chris  Rayner - Executive Director SSP International
• Jérôme Goldberg - President JMG-Research
• Gary Mey - Sales Director Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
• Glenn Wedlock - GM Commercial, Auckland Airport
• Steffen Brandt - CEO Asia Pacific, Gebr. Heinemann
• Kevin Miller - Global Head of Insight, Ink
• Johnnie Voutsas - Vice President Folli Follie Group
• John Woodhouse - Head of Business Development, China & East Asia, Aer Rianta International
• "We are delighted to have so many well respected industry speakers and companies participating at CTR", said Jeffrey O'Rourke, Chief Executive of Ink. "This world-class line up of speakers, the superb agenda and the number of Chinese airports and duty free operators already attending, is fast establishing CTR as a definitive date in the Travel Retail calendar. We are hoping that over the coming weeks we will be able to announce more high profile speakers, delegates and sponsors coming to shanghai in July to attend our event".

The China Travel Retail event and exhibition, taking place at the prestigious Marriott City Centre in Shanghai, will showcase best practices both domestically inside China, at Chinese airports and airlines, at sea, as well as how companies are successfully selling to Chinese consumers travelling overseas.  The two-day schedule for this event will include a mix of keynote speeches and master classes that will cover topics including:

• China's Influence on the Rest of the Travel Retail Market
• How to Create Strong Local Partnerships
• The Luxury Goods Market: Chinese Perspectives
• The Changing Travel Retail Landscape for Chinese Travellers

"We believe that there is a need for an event that does not just showcase existing best practise within Chinese travel retail, but also helps companies to network, develop relationships and establish a footprint in this ever increasingly influential market", said Nick Tan, President of GIS Events. "At CTR we will be bringing together for the first time, the most important decision makers from the Airports, Airlines, Duty Free operators, brands and Concessionaires in china and looking to break into this market. "

For further details about the event, the speakers and the two-day schedule, please go to www.chinatravelretail.com, or contact the CTR team at info@chinatravelretail.com.

About Ink

Ink is the global leader in connecting companies with travellers. As well as producing more inflight magazines for more airlines than any other company in the world, Ink reaches a captive audience of hundreds of millions of travellers each year with Targeted Advertising (TAD) on confirmation emails, check-in emails, print-at-home & mobile boarding passes and on onboard entertainment systems.

Ink works with over three dozen airlines, produces media in 17 languages, and sells advertising in over 100 countries. Our travel clients include companies as diverse as Air France-KLM, Air Macau, Bangkok Airways, bmi, easyJet, Eurostar, Germanwings, Gulf Air, Jetstar, Ryanair, South African Express, THAI Airways, Tiger Airways, TurboJET (the ferry from Hong Kong to Macau), United Airlines, PrivatAir and Wizz Air.

Ink is the owner of the Airline Retail Conference (ARC) in Europe and Asia, the China Travel Retail conference in Shanghai, and produces the Airline Passenger Experience Media Platform in association with APEX, the Airline Passenger Experience Association. We also publish CNBC Business magazine and Time Out Singapore. Ink has offices in Atlanta, London, New York and Singapore. For more information see www.ink-global.com.

About GIS Events

GIS Events began in Shanghai in the year 2000 as an international event organiser. Owned and operated by a professional Australian trained team, with more than 15 years of experience in research, program design, and conference planning, the GIS team works to bring high level Chinese officials and their organisations together with leading international companies.  Through our GIS Event Summits, Congresses, Forums and Expos we enable access to key decision makers of particular market sectors for networking and marketing opportunities.

From 2007 GIS Events has been working closely with Chinese government associations for both the airline and the airport sectors - the China Air Transport Association (CATA) and the China Civil Airports Association (CCAA), both of which come under the central government civil aviation authority (CAAC).  Since then GIS Events has been the exclusive company of choice for the professional organising of CATA and CCA international conferences, exhibitions, summits and other training programs.

GIS Events strives to create platforms enabling industry to develop in China, connecting China's airlines and airports with top global players and solutions providers.  With excellent reputation and references in the industry, we continue to deliver high level and meaningful events focusing on the China market.

Contacts:

Ink

James Harrison

Group Marketing Director

James.Harrison@ink-global.com

+44 20 7613 6995

GIS Events

Nick Tan

President

+86 13701792101

nick.tan@gisevents.com