Tourists to Tibet up 28 pct in first quarter
17:48, 19 May 2010
LHASA. May 19. KAZINFORM Tibet hosted 279,886 tourists in the first four months of 2010, up 28 percent year on year, after the southwest China region held a series of tourism promotion activities; Kazinform refers to China Daily.
The figure includes 19,539 foreign tourists, up 37.5 percent, and 260,347 domestic tourists, up 27.3 percent, the regional tourism bureau said in a statement Wednesday.
The tourism revenue jumped 33.7 percent year on year to 280.5 million yuan ($41.1 million).
Tibet plans to attract 6.5 million tourists and earn tourism revenue of 6.7 billion yuan this year; Kazinform cites China Daily.
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