Retail In Asia<\/em> reports.<\/span><\/p>\nPerfumes, liquor, gold, cigarettes & tobacco and electronics remained bestsellers, with the first category showing an 89 per cent jump amounting to $186m, while liquor, accounting for 16 per cent of total sales, hit $168m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n“We have had a fantastic year so far and I am pleased that we have recovered over 80 per cent of our business from January to August, whereas the passenger recovery is about 67 per cent of 2019 levels. We have now recalled almost 2,000 of our laid-off staff and our current staffing levels are getting closer to the pre-Covid figures,” said Mr McLoughlin.<\/span><\/p>\nThree weeks ago, Dubai Duty Free was named the \u2018World\u2019s Leading Airport Duty Free Operator 2022\u2019 by the World Travel Awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On December 18-20, Dubai Duty Free will be offering 25 per cent discounts on various products to mark its 39th anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":17295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4105,1],"tags":[4113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19918,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19913\/revisions\/19918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}