by Joe Kleiman, InPark News Editor
[dropcap color=”#888″ type=”square”]A[/dropcap]ccording to India’s National Council for Economic Research, that country’s middle class is expected to double over the next decade to 547 million individuals. As with China, a dramatic increase in the middle class will organically lead to growth in the attractions sector. We’re seeing that already with the expansion of the waterpark industry in India and with recent announcements by the UK’s Merlin Entertainments, India’s Adlabs, and China’s Dalian-Wanda Group to build new attractions, large scale theme parks, and resorts within India.
In October, India’s great cinematic art form, Bollywood, will be given its own blockbuster theme park. This new park will be located in Dubai, where it will appeal not only to Dubai’s diverse local and tourist population, but also the more than 1 million Indians per year who visit the UAE. And the growing Indian middle class will continue to make its mark on the global attractions landscape.