Dixons Travel

Dixons Travel is a technology retailer, with stores in four airports in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is a division of Currys Retail, a subsidiary of Currys plc.

Dixons Travel
FormerlyDixons Tax Free
TypeDivision
IndustryRetail
FoundedJune 13, 1994 (1994-06-13)
HeadquartersNorth Acton,
London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
  • Wayne Bannerman (operations director)
  • Charlotte Green (head of finance)
  • Neil Matthews (head of merchandising)
ProductsElectronics & Travel Accessories
OwnerCurrys plc
Websitewww.dixonstravel.com

It was initially established as Dixons Tax Free in June 1994 to relaunch the Dixons brand in airport locations. The name changed to Dixons Travel in January 2009. A branch in Brussels trades under the Knowhow brand.[1]

On 28 April 2021, Dixons Carphone announced the closure of the Dixons Travel business,[2] due to the removal of tax-free shopping from UK airports from December 2020, and lower passenger numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company stated that the Dixons Travel business had historically contributed annual profits of over £20 million to the Dixons Carphone group.[3]

As of June 2021, Dixons Travel had reopened its stores[4] in Birmingham Airport, Dublin Airport's Terminal 1, Gatwick Airport's North Terminal, and Heathrow Airport's Terminals 2 and 5. Other stores in Heathrow's Terminals 3[5] and 4 and the rest of the UK,[6] Dublin's Terminal 2 reopened July 19th 2021. Oslo Airport, and stores on both the P&O Ventura and Britannia cruise ships, remain closed.

References
  1. "Electrical retailer, Dixons, opens new concept Travel store at Gatwick Airport". Retail Times. 5 August 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  2. Partridge, Joanna (2021-04-28). "Dixons Carphone to close all airport stores after tax-free shopping scrapped". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  3. "Pre-close trading update". Dixons Carphone plc. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  4. "Dixons Travel talking to airport business partners as store closures commence". TRBusiness. 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  5. "Dixons Travel opens new-look digital concept store at London Heathrow". Internet Retailing. 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  6. "Dixons Travel - Our Stores". Archived from the original on 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
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