{"id":66496,"date":"2015-12-07T05:24:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66496"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:36:16","slug":"tourists-to-lhasa-tops-10-mln-in-first-10-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/07\/tourists-to-lhasa-tops-10-mln-in-first-10-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists to Lhasa tops 10 mln in first 10 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66497\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200px-Potala_Palace_August_2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66497\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200px-Potala_Palace_August_2009.jpg\" alt=\"Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet (Photo from Wikipedia\/ Antoine Taveneaux)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200px-Potala_Palace_August_2009.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200px-Potala_Palace_August_2009-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1200px-Potala_Palace_August_2009-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet<br \/>(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lhasa\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Antoinetav\" target=\"_blank\"> Antoine Taveneaux<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LHASA, (PNA\/Xinhua) \u2013Tourists to Lhasa, capital of southwest China&#8217;s Tibet Autonomous Region, have exceeded 10 million in the first 10 months of 2015, according to the city government.<\/p>\n<p>A record of 11.59 million people from both home and abroad visited the city from January to October, up 11.71 percent year on year. The city&#8217;s tourism sector realized 15 billion yuan (about 2.34 billion U.S.dollars) in tourism revenue, up 38.16 percent from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Overseas tourists reached 106,400, up 11.71 percent from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism is a pillar industry in Tibet, with revenue accounting for about one fifth of the region&#8217;s GDP.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy aurogra online <a href=\"https:\/\/bristolrehabclinic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/aurogra.html\">https:\/\/bristolrehabclinic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/aurogra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> The region aims to attract 17 million tourists this year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy finpecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/bristolrehabclinic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/finpecia.html\">https:\/\/bristolrehabclinic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/finpecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> (PNA\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LHASA, (PNA\/Xinhua) \u2013Tourists to Lhasa, capital of southwest China&#8217;s Tibet Autonomous Region, have exceeded 10 million in the first 10 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287611,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66496\/revisions\/287611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}