Propelled by rising wealth and changing consumer habits, China, India and other emerging economies like Russia andBrazil would lead the growth in the global aviation market over the next decade, a latest study has said. 

The study on travel industry trends, carried out by Oxford Economics and commissioned by Amadeus, also predicts that China would overtake the largest outbound market of the United States this year itself. 

The Oxford Economics-Amadeus report shows that Asiawould drive a decade of sustained growth for the global travel industry, which would grow by 5.4 per cent per annum over the next decade, outpacing global GDP which would grow by little over three per cent. 

It predicted that Asia would become the growth leader in outbound travel expenditure over the next decade, overtaking Europe by 2023. By 2023, Asia Pacific outbound travel spend would reach USD 752.8 billion or 40 per cent of the world's total. 

The report indicates that the growth would not be exclusive to China, with forecasts showing that "other large emerging markets such as Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey will also average more than five per cent annual growth over the next 10 years. This will be driven largely by rising wealth and changing consumer habits." 

"Air travel growth will be led by emerging economies such as India, Indonesia and Russia, as non-OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) air travel is set to overtake that of OECD members for the first time, to become largest source of global air traffic by 2023," the study said.

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