With 350 million Indians ranked as middle class inhabitants and economic growth increasing by 5–6 per cent every year, India offers enormous potential for future growth in outbound travel. According to the 2012 report “Indian Outbound Tourism Market”, in percentage terms, India is the fastest growing outbound tourism market in the world, and in terms of numbers, it's the second fastest after China.
In any economic slowdown tourism is the first sector to get affected. But the Indian outbound tourism market seems to be an exception. Spending within the market hit $ million in 2010 and is expected to reach over $ million by 2015. The United States is way ahead of its rivals and controls almost one-third of Indian outbound tourism spending.