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professionals without license or certificate. The most
common case is that manufacturers want to save
cost, they save materials or skip certain processed
section. There is no professionals to watch over the
whole producing process. It becomes common that
the products are found defective in India. In the sports
industry, numerous fitness centers hire trainers without
license. A great number of entrepreneurs promote sports
consultancy or weight-losing programs. Nevertheless,
they cannot demonstrate their professionalism. It
happens all the time that they open large fitness centers
but they cannot find professional trainers. Many owners
express that the current situations of the Indian fitness
market, it shall be the Indian government to establish
a certificate institute with public trust or to invite an
international fitness organization to issue the certificate
which should be another good solution.
The cost to establish a fitness
center on the early stage is too
high
Although the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra
Modi, promotes the development of health and
fitness industry. In his policies, there will be a number
of promising industries which include beauty, health
and sports and so on. The government will provide
comparative preference tariff. However, the sports
equipment market in India is mainly focus on the
consumption power of the middle and high class.
The high-end users only put eyes on home-use
equipment so their purchase items are rather limited.
The middle consumers would rather go to fitness
centers. The fitness centers on the early stage need
invest much more than beauty health enterprises.
Usually these fitness centers need to pay high rent
and fitness equipment. The number of professionals
are not sufficient. Comparatively, there are enough
professionals or experts in the beauty industry. Beauty
products have become daily supplies so they can
recover the cost rather fast.
According the investigations, the initial investment
to establish a fitness center in India shall be at least
100 billion Rupees above, that is, 150,000 US dollars.
In addition to the space, the unceasingly soaring rent
in India, the owner must afford to buy considerable
fitness equipment for normal operation. These are
the reasons which many investors hesitate. There are