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unusual facts about duty free



Keith Barron

One of his best-loved and best-remembered roles was in the 1980s Yorkshire Television sitcom Duty Free.

Puntarenas

In 1845 the Congress of the Republic declared Puntarenas a duty free port (with the exception of Cognac and hard liquor).

Sachertorte

Hotel Sacher's "Original Sacher Torte" is sold at the Vienna and Salzburg locations of the Hotel Sacher, at Cafe Sacher branches in Innsbruck and Graz, at the Sacher Shop in Bolzano, in the Duty Free area of Vienna airport and via the Hotel Sacher's online shop.

Staatsbank

These were a chain of special shops that offered high quality East German goods (that were otherwise difficult to obtain without joining a long waiting list) at reasonable prices and otherwise unobtainable Western consumer goods (usually at near Duty free price levels) – they were accessible only to foreign tourists with hard currency and East German citizens with Forum checks.


see also

2001 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open

The 2001 Dubai Tennis Championships and Dubai Duty Free Women's Open were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates that were part of the International Series Gold of the 2001 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2001 WTA Tour.

2002 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open

The 2002 Dubai Tennis Championships and Dubai Duty Free Women's Open were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates that were part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2002 WTA Tour.

2003 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open

The 2003 Dubai Tennis Championships and Dubai Duty Free Women's Open were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates that were part of the International Series Gold of the 2003 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2003 WTA Tour.

2011 Dubai Tennis Championships

The 2011 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the 2011 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a 500 Series event on the 2011 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2011 WTA Tour.

2012 Dubai Tennis Championships

The 2012 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the 2012 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a 500 event on the 2012 ATP World Tour and a Premier event on the 2012 WTA Tour.

2013 Dubai Tennis Championships

The 2013 Dubai Tennis Championships (also known as the 2013 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a 500 event on the 2013 ATP World Tour and a Premier event on the 2013 WTA Tour.

DFS Galleria

In 1960, Americans "Charles Feeney and Robert Miller founded Tourists International, which later became Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), in Hong Kong, at a time when tax free shopping was still in its infancy.

In 1961, Tourists International won the bid for a duty free concession at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport and opened its first airport store (using the Duty Free Shoppers name, which was purchased from military entrepreneur friends Stewart Damon and Harry Adler).

Dubai Classic

The Dubai Classic (also known as the Dubai Duty Free Classic for sponsorship and marketing purposes) was a professional ranking snooker tournament.

Hudson Group

Since September 2008, Hudson Group has been a wholly owned subsidiary of international duty-free travel retailer Dufry AG (DUFN.SW) of Basel, Switzerland, a public corporation traded on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Mohammed Khalid

His first target is duty free alcohol sales at Bahrain International Airport, saying "This is an Islamic country and imagine the nation's frontier is booze shops. Prostitution is a profitable investment, so why is it banned in the country? Why don't allow it in the open like alcohol? Alcohol should be criminalised as prostitution, because both are unacceptable Islamically, morally and socially."

Nick Tate

Tate appeared in the TRIP (Tony Rudlin Ingrid Pitt Productions) stage production of Duty Free (later known as Don't Bother To Dress), by Emmerdale writer, Neville Siggs, which ran from 1976 to 1977 at the Bristol Hippodrome.

Old St Andrews

However, at the end of the 1990s, duty-free sales in Europe ended with the creation of the single-market European Union.

Ronald Shakespear

Diseño Shakespear designed Identity Programs for the most important Argentine companies as Avex, Banco Galicia, Luigi Bosca, Banco Patagonia, Luigi Bosca, Boca Juniors, Duty Free Shop, Red Link, Oca, Banelco, Harrods,and hundreds more.