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Altavia Travel Retail White Paper Charts Shift From Indian Passenger Traffic to Spending
Altavia Travel Retail has published a white paper on how airports, retailers and brands can convert India's fast-growing traveller base into sales, pointing to a projected fourfold rise in Indian spending across Asia Pacific travel retail between 2025 and 2035.
The paper, titled 'Incredible India', examines the changing shopping habits of Indian travellers and the opportunities it identifies across key product categories, arguing that airports, operators and brands should respond with more personalised and locally relevant offers.
Its central projection is that spending by Indian travellers across Asia Pacific travel retail will quadruple between 2025 and 2035. That growth is attributed to expanding middle and affluent classes in India, a rising appetite for international travel and substantial overseas spending potential.
According to the white paper, India can no longer be treated as purely a domestic expansion story. The impact of this spending cohort is described as reaching well beyond Indian borders, reshaping commercial corridors that run through Dubai, Bangkok and Singapore.
The document frames India as an immediate strategic priority for airport commercial teams, operators and brand owners worldwide, rather than a long-term prospect. The excerpt released so far covers shifting shopping behaviour and category-level opportunities, alongside recommendations for tailoring retail experiences to Indian travellers.
Altavia Travel Retail positions the paper as a guide for translating passenger volume into transaction value by better matching assortment, service and marketing to the preferences of this group.