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" India has a sizeable chunk of the Asian travel market - both inbound and outbound travel. "
Gillian Tans
India
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" On the one hand, you have markets such as Singapore and Thailand, with an extremely strong inbound booker market and a well-developed tourism industry. You also have markets that are just opening up to tourists, like Myanmar, that have massive growth potential and then markets that are extremely fragmented within themselves such as Indonesia. "
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