While growth in personal luxury goods is slowing — the global personal luxury goods market grew by just 1% in 2015 on the previous year in real growth terms, according to a report by Bain & Company — travel and tourism is on the rise, particularly amongst the growing middle class in China., explains Limei Hoang at BoF. In recent months many luxury brands have shown their interest in taking advantage of the promising outlook in the luggage market, using it to diversify their portfolios against the wider downturn
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