Dubai Duty Free<\/a>, Colm McLoughlin, said: \u201cReceiving this honour for the 22nd straight year since 2002 is significant and showcases the dedication of our team of staff who continue to do an excellent job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n“I want to express my gratitude to our Chairman HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum for his unwavering support, and many thanks to all of those who have supported us and voted for us every year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nOrganised by Motivate Publishing and Panacea Publishing, the awards recognise the best of the best across 40 categories spanning three main divisions including airlines, airports and hotels as well as a special award for the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/span><\/p>\nDubai Duty Free is one of the largest duty free operations in a single airport in the world and covers a total retail area of 40,000 square metres across Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIn 2022, its sales reached $1.74 billion, representing a more than 78 per cent leap on the pre-lockdown previous years.<\/span><\/p>\nThe airport retailer opened for business on December 20 in 1983.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free is awarded the ‘Best Duty Free Shopping in the Middle East’ for the 22nd consecutive year <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":17295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901"}],"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=22901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22903,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions\/22903"}],"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=22901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}