Special Report: Spring Festival Special 2009

Tourists are taking photos on the top of the Jokhang Temple of Lhasa, Febr. 27, 2009. (Photo: China Tibet Information Center) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, Jan. 30 -- The traditional Chinese Spring Festival which takes a holiday for one week has driven the tourism industry in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China. Alone in 2008, the region has absorbed 2.2 million tourist arrivals from home and abroad with a tourism revenue of 2.24 billion yuan and is expected to receive 3 million tourists in the new year.

    (Source: China Tibet Information Center)

Two tourists chat in a tea shop of Lhasa, Febr. 27, 2009. (Photo: China Tibet Information Center) Photo Gallery>>>