Airport FAB+Hospitality 2025
Barcelona, Spain
2025-06-25 08:00:00
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Thabet Musleh

Thabet Musleh

Chief Retail and Hospitality Officer, Qatar Airways Group

Thabet Musleh serves as Chief Retail and Hospitality Officer at Qatar Airways.

Thabet leads the group’s retail and food & beverage divisions at Qatar Duty Free (QDF), along with Internal Media Services, Dhiafatina Hotels and Qatar Airways’ lounge businesses worldwide.

Under Thabet’s leadership, QDF has grown to a talented team of over 4,000 employees that have each played a part in contributing to Hamad International Airport’s burgeoning reputation as an iconic global retail and dining location and a destination in itself. Together, the QDF team has achieved record-breaking sales by focusing on Experiencentricity offering something for everyone regardless of budget or preference, and providing new groundbreaking concepts in travel retail, including the concept of ‘transit tourism’.

Thabet was named one of The Moodie Davitt Report’s People of the Year in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 for his influential role at Qatar Duty Free, Hamad International Airport and within the wider travel retail industry. Additionally, he was recognised with an Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2023 Frontier Awards for his critical influence in progressing the quality and reputation of Hamad International Airport’s retail and dining offer in recent years.

Thabet brings a wealth of experience, with more than 15 years in the travel retail sector. He joined Qatar Airways in 2015 as Head of Retail Operations for the national carrier’s duty-free business before being promoted to lead QDF in January 2018. He was then appointed as Vice President Operations in 2018, Vice President in 2021 and Senior Vice President in 2023. Prior to joining QDF, he spent a decade at World Duty Free Group, holding senior roles across London’s three biggest airports: Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.

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Airport Food & Beverage + Hospitality Conference & Awards 2025 is brought to you by The Moodie Davitt Report, a multi-media business-to-business publisher and information provider on the global travel retail and duty free sector.

CONFERENCES AND AWARDS

  • Airport Food & Beverage + Hospitality Conference & Awards
  • The Moodies - The Travel Journey Omnichannel Awards
  • The Trinity Forum - The Global Airport Commercial Revenues Conference
  • Travel Retail Superstars Awards

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