Across China: Tibet
China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-07 07:41
Tourism slumps
The number of tourists to Tibet plunged 36 percent year-on-year during the National Day holiday, when 257,000 people visited the "roof of the world".
Only 110,900 tourists stayed overnight in Tibet, a 41.5 percent drop from a year ago, deputy chief of the region's tourism department Zhanor said.
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