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4 Charts That Illustrate Indian Travelers’ Growing Luxury Shopping Habits

Dan Peltier

Photo Credit: Indian respondents accounted for the highest percentage of travelers (53%) who said they take trips specifically for luxury shopping in a YouGov and Time Inc. survey. Pictured here are tourists waiting outside the Chanel store at Harbour City shopping mall in Hong Kong. Flickr / Slices of Light

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The Chinese aren't the only important market to pay attention to in Asia-Pacific.

The Chinese tourists resolved to buy luxury goods abroad may find themselves sharing the check-out line with Indian travelers at high-end department stores. Like China, India is a developing economy with a myriad of people determined to impress their peers with symbols of wealth and status to deepen their standing in upper class society. This is evidenced in a recent YouGov and Time Inc. survey of more than 6,000 affluent travelers from 14 countries including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, U.K., Germany, France, UAE, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia. But shopping isn't the only essenti

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