A record four million tourists would have visited Tibet this year, thanks to a new railway linking the Himalayan region to the rest of China and another airport, Xinhua reported.
The number of tourists would have risen over 60% from last year, bringing in an expected 4.8 billion yuan (US650 million dollars) in tourism revenues, over 70% more compared to last year.
“The golden era of Tibet tourism has come,” Xinhua quoted Tibet’s top Communist Party official, Zhang Qingli, as saying.
The surge in numbers comes with the opening of the Tibet railway and a third airport in the region. The railway opened last year.
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