MEADFA Appoints Isabel Zarza as Board Member

In June, the Middle East & Africa Duty Free Association (MEADFA), appointed Dufry´s Director of the Central, North and Eastern European Cluster, Isabel Zarza, as member of the Board of the organization.

With over 20 years of experience in the Travel Retail Industry, with the 3 most recent years as General Manager of Dufry for Africa, Isabel brings great knowledge of the African travel retail industry. On top of MEADFA, Isabel serves on a number of boards and associations, including, the Economics Regional Committee for ACI Africa and the ACI World Economics Standing Committee.

Founded by nine of the leading travel retail organizations of the Middle East, the actual membership of MEADFA now stands at 35, including Dufry which is a very active member of the organization.

MEADFA was set up to create unity among the Middle East and Africa’s duty-free industry, thus bringing official recognition, raise awareness of the industry’s contribution to the greater travel and tourism industry infrastructure, and provide representation for its member companies. At present, the focus is on grouping together as many Middle East & Africa based duty-free retailers as possible to not only facilitate the growth of the region’s industry, but to establish standards for quality that are a hallmark of duty-free trading in the Middle East and Africa.

Dufry is MEADFA´s only member with two chairs in the Board with Isabel joining Felix Brunner, Dufry´s General Manager for the Middle East & India subcontinent. Today, DUFRY is present within 14 countries across the African and Middle East region with operations in U.A.E. (Sharjah), Jordan, Kuwait, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Morocco and Algeria.