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UAE Tourism Strategy aims to host 40 million visitors by 2031. The first phase of Navi Mumbai
International Airport is expected to be completed by December 2024. By 2032, Navi Mumbai

Airport would also have the capacity to handle 2.5 million tons of cargo. The US$3.8 billion
Noida International Airport is set to open by September 2025.

Maldives is working to develop airports in its six islands as its new government works on a
policy to have an airport within 30 minutes of every residential island. Its capital city, Male,
will have a new terminal by 2025. China aims to construct 216 new airports by 2035 to meet

the growing demands for air travel.

A report by Statista said Asia-Pacific had been the region with the highest number of airport
infrastructure projects under construction, with over half of the new airport construction taking
place in this region. It also had the lead for construction projects in existing airports. When

considering the value of airport construction projects worldwide, Asia-Pacific was also at the
top of the ranking.

“Airports will be core drivers of (aviation) industry-wide change, while themselves being
transformed in the process,” remarked a study on the 'Evolution of Airports – Travel Trends in

The Next 30 Years' published by Oliver Wyman, a global consultancy, Airports Council
International (ACI) World, and the Sustainable Tourism Global Center (STGC).

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