Chic Outlet Shopping announces new luxury products and services, with special deals for IGLTA travellers
The Collection of Chic Outlet Shopping® Villages by Value Retail in Europe is offering International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) travellers VIP treatment when they visit the Villages with a range of new Shopping Packages, offers and the launch of an exciting new digital app.
Chic Outlet Shopping®is a Platinum Partner of IGLTA, which is the leading global travel organisation dedicated to LGBT tourism. Guests can receive a Chic Outlet Shopping® VIP Invitation offering them an additional 10% saving on purchases in participating boutiques on the day of their visit to any of the nineChic Outlet Shopping® Villages across Europe, as well as special prices on the Shopping Express® luxury coach service. To receive this discount, please visit https://www.iglta.org/specials/chic-outlet-savings/.
The opening party for the 31st IGLTA Annual Global Convention in Madrid will take place on the 8 May at Las Rozas Village near Madrid, one of the Chic Outlet Shopping® Villages.
To make the luxury outlet shopping experience more seamless than ever, Chic Outlet Shopping® has recently launched a new digital app – bringing the best of theChic Outlet Shopping® Villages straight to guests’ fingertips. For the first time, guests can browse the Collection of Chic Outlet Shopping® Villages in eight languages directly from their mobile devices. Packed full of innovative new features, guests can search their favourite boutiques, plan their visit, view interactive maps and discover exclusive offers and promotions. International visitors can take advantage of features including a tax-free calculator, currency converter and international sizing chart. What’s more, guests can download the app for free using the complimentary, high-speed Wi-Fi available in the Villages.
Download the free Chic Outlet Shopping® app now.
- Download for Apple devices from the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/chic-outlet-shopping/id405843009?mt=8
- Download for Android devices from Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valueretail.cos
Guests to the Villages can take advantage of an entire suite of hospitality services including Welcome and Tourist Information Centres, VIP Lounges, multilingual hosts, chauffeured transport, Hands-free Shopping, personal shoppers and Valet Parking, all aimed at making the experience in the Villages as luxurious as possible.
Chic Outlet Shopping®is also launching a number of exciting new great value Shopping Packages, which offer savings compared with the price of purchasing the elements of the package separately. Luxury-seeking fashion lovers can plan their trip to the Village in advance and save money by doing so. All of the Shopping Packages can be purchased at ChicOutletShopping.com/shoppingpackages
At Fidenza Village near Milan, new Shopping Packages include the 'Shopping & Museo Teatrale alla Scala Experience', which includes a transfer from Milan with the Shopping Express® luxury coach service and shopping in the more than 100 boutiques of world-famous fashion and lifestyle brands at the Village, together withentry to the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, home of the most important collection of paintings, statues and costumes relating to the magnificent La Scala Opera House in Milan. Other recently launched new Shopping Packages at Fidenza Village include the ‘Shopping & Wellness’ package, which combines a transfer on the Shopping Express® luxury coach service with a voucher for a wellness experience at state-of-the-art spa, QC Terme Milan in the centre of Milan. The package costs €49.
Other new Shopping Packages across the Collection include the ‘Shopping Express® & Flamenco Shopping Package’ for which Las Rozas Village near Madrid and Café de Chinitas have come together to offer an exciting day of shopping combined with a flamenco show. The package includes a return ticket on the Shopping Express®luxury coach service from the centre of Madrid to Las Rozas Village, a VIP Card for an additional 10% saving in participating boutiques and a flamenco show with dinner. The cost of the Shopping Package is €70 per adult and €46 per child.
Ian Stazicker, Tourism Director – Global Marketing forValue Retail, says the new services and products are aimed to enhance the guest experience and provide great value-for-money luxury: “Our international visitors treat the Villages as tourism destinations for a day out and are looking for a unique and authentic experience and the best customer service. The digital app, Shopping Packages and services including the VIP Lounges help them to make the most of their visit. These are just some of the many exciting new products and services, which will launch across the Collection of nine Villages in 2014.”
In addition to the public being able to buy the packages, the tourism industry is being offered, on average, 10% commission on the net price of Chic Outlet Shopping® products and packages. The online booking platform, Chic Travel Portal, which was launched earlier this year, enables the travel trade and MICE market to create and purchase bespoke travel itineraries featuring local partners as well as Chic Outlet Shopping® products: ChicOutletShopping.com/chicportal
Find details of all the packages at ChicOutletShopping.com/shoppingpackages
