4 Charts That Illustrate Indian Travelers' Growing Luxury Shopping Habits

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