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Codgers on holiday in rising India

Growing foreign travel is one sign of the radical change in rising India's vacation dynamics

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Kanika Datta
As scorching temperatures empty India’s cities, the emerging rich, ordinary rich and seriously rich engage in the gentle snobbery of overseas destination shopping, the level of exotica marking the distinction between sophisticate and arriviste. Growing foreign travel is, however, only one sign of the radical change in rising India’s vacation dynamics. The narrowing gap between private sector and government in the fine art of vacationing is the other prominent shift, and no one has been more influential here than Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
 
Executive vacation was a rare concept until the growing multinational presence in India imported the notion
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