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At each stop, a highly efficient state PR machinery lists out agreements made and deals struck. Most important of all, an array of Indian TV channels cover these visits as rolling breaking news with blow-by-blow updates.
The image created is one of a highly successful salesman of all things India Inc.
But beyond the rhetoric and shows of friendship, how does one define Modi's foreign policy? What does his impressive salesmanship mean for India, the region, and the world?
Non-alignment
There is no better place to start than with properly discarding a theory New Delhi was once renowned for: "non-alignment."
In the 1950s and 60s, India emerged as a founder and moral champion of NAM — the Non-Aligned Movement — whose member states professed to steer clear of formal alignments for or against great powers.
Experts say India has long abandoned the group's ideology, at least in practice. "People tend to forget India aligned with the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s," says Sumit Ganguly, a foreign policy expert and professor at Indiana University.
Under Modi, the perception of India as being decidedly aligned has only strengthened. In part, this is because of ever closer relations with the likes of Israel and Japan, and most of all, the United States. "There's baggage with the US," says Ganguly. "That's because it once supported Pakistan. That continues to haunt many elites in India."
The most visible nail in the non-aligned coffin seemed to come last September, when India declined to attend the group's summit. "That was a mistake," says Arun Sukumar, an analyst at India's Observer Research Foundation, pointing to the group's strength of 120 countries. "Modi underestimated the utility of NAM ... India could have been the country at the summit that said 'look, you need to be wary of China's influence'."
Strategic vision
Before becoming Prime Minister, Modi — who was previously Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat — was something of an unknown quantity in respect to foreign policy. And yet, he seemed to adapt to the trappings of international diplomacy like a fish to water; he appeared wholly in his element meeting world leaders, and displaying a flair for personal touches that have become the hallmark of his friendly relations with many of his counterparts.
Yet Modi has rarely enunciated a clear vision for India's foreign policy, at least publicly.
The question then is whether Modi's engagement is working. "He's placed India on a global stage," says Ganguly, calling foreign policy "the brightest spot" in Modi's three years as Prime Minister so far. "But it remains to be seen what longer-term impact his globetrotting really has."
There has been an uptick in foreign investments as part of Modi's "Make in India" program, for example, but it's difficult to make an exclusive causality back to the PM's diplomacy.
Critics say despite appearances Modi hasn't changed the direction of Indian foreign policy. "Modi is building a foreign policy around himself," says Sukumar, pointing to the public relations messaging around the Prime Minister's global missives. "But he is outliving the effect of his personal diplomacy. His team has not put together a vision of something more defined or longer lasting."
The Trump factor
Perhaps the most visible Indian foreign policy shift in recent decades has been its closeness with the United States. On a visit to India in 2010, President Obama famously predicted the two countries would share "a defining partnership" of the 21st century. For Indians who remembered their ties with the erstwhile Soviet Union just two decades ago, this was a pronounced shift, an open declaration of shared values and goals. (Typically, India has also remained friendly with Russia under Putin).
But what happens under a White House run by President Donald J. Trump?
"It is far from clear that Trump has a vision of India and where it fits," says Ganguly. "Given Trump's mercurial nature, I worry that Modi may overextend himself on this one."
Don't forget China
How will India respond? "Modi needs to understand we're dealing with a different China now," says Sukumar, pointing to the 2008 financial crisis as a turning point in geopolitics. "Now that China has begun to assert itself our strategy has been to embrace ourselves further with the US, and the real concern is whether the White House under Trump has the same appetite to play a stabilizing presence in Asia."
Modi will likely point back to history to prove his path is correct. Even when India was non-aligned, it fought bitter wars with Pakistan and China. It's years of strategic alignment with the United States have proved relatively more peaceful, even if disputes always seem to be simmering close by.