However, BCG believes that many of the economic and behavioral trends highlighted in our December 2010 global-luxury-market report are accelerating. Sales of luxury cars account for close to $350 billion of that total worldwide, and the business of luxury experiences-from art auctions to one-of-a-kind travel adventures-is already worth well over $770 billion of the total. That figure far outstrips the sums usually cited for sales of luxury goods such as apparel, cosmetics, watches, and jewelry. The Boston Consulting Group’s latest study-on which we worked in 2011 with research specialist Ipsos and the International Luxury Business Association to poll roughly 1,000 affluent individuals in eight mature countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S.) and the four emerging BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China)-reveals that aggregate annual spending on what those consumers describe as luxuries now tops $1.4 trillion. Overall, the worldwide luxury market has shown itself to be robust. The results are as eye opening in luxury experiences as they are in personal luxury goods.
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The uncertainties and worries that characterize most of today’s economic headlines are nowhere apparent in recent reports on the world’s luxury players, many of which are recording double-digit year-on-year increases and profit gains that provoke the envy of business leaders in other sectors. Technology, Media, and Telecommunications.