Hengsheng Gu
The University of Sydney, Australia
This report emphasizes the non-aeronautical revenues of airports that are playing an increasingly important part in the revenues of airport. This report delves into different fields of non-aeronautical services that serve as an important revenue source as well as how to better manage these fields to bring greater profits and incomes for the airport. This report focuses on airport advertising, food and beverage and airport car parking as to their potential benefits and threats to the revenues of different airports. It shows that although these fields of non-aeronautical services can potentially bring in a lot of revenues and profits to the airports, different airports also need to adopt proactive policies and strategies to improve these fields to increase their revenues and competitiveness.
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