Camden Market owner LabTech said that the market will partially reopen at the earliest possible opportunity, on June 1, following the government’s latest announcement on the easing of the lockdown.  

As European luxury shopping capitals from Paris to Milan slowly emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, stores are reopening to a trickle of customers, and virtually no tourists.

Burberry – and other major luxury names – are likely to see a very slow recovery due to the global decline in tourism caused by the coronavirus pandemic, analysts at UBS have said.

After a two-month lockdown, the stores on Paris’s Champs-Elysées avenue opened again at 10 am on Monday, some with their customary queues outside, though the usual throngs of foreign tourists were sadly missing.

The Tax Free World Association has cancelled its flagship World Exhibition that was due to take place in Cannes in September and October.

Some business-as-usual is continuing in fashion retail, despite the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown that it has led to and Allsaints has released a new summer campaign that it had photographed before the lockdown.

The Antler luggage brand that's been owned by Michael Lewis since February is in trouble due to the coronavirus crisis, according to a news report this week.

Beiersdorf said on Tuesday that its super-prestige skincare brand la Prairie has taken a major hit on the back of the coronavirus crisis with the travel retail channel weak and likely to stay that way for some time.

French multimedia conglomerate Lagardere on Thursday reported a 12.5% fall in first-quarter revenue on a like-for-like basis as coronavirus-related travel restrictions and border closures hit its travel retail business.

Peter Beard, the New York-born fashion icon, path-breaking wildlife photographer, noted diarist and forerunner of the ecological movement, has died at 82, near his home in Montauk. 

The number of British people leaving their homes to go shopping has slumped by 83% since the government closed non-essential retail outlets last month, the British Retail Consortium trade body said on Monday.

The shopping centre owner, whose portfolio of leading retail destinations include Brent Cross, Grand Central and the Bullring, is observing the government’s ban on all non-essential travel within the UK.

Swiss firm Dufry is cutting jobs and guiding for a single-digit decrease in organic sales this year as the coronavirus pandemic that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to ban air travel from Europe hits its business.

U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sweeping restrictions on travel from Europe, hitting battered airlines and heightening global alarm over the coronavirus.

A new UK retail body has been set up as Britain faces a growing threat from the coronavirus that has already dented tourist shopper visits from key regions such as Southeast Asia.

The European Commission is planning to announce within a month a series of measures to assist the sectors whose activity has been most affected by the Covid 19 outbreak, notably tourism.