New Policy For Overseas Tourists To Tibet
(Xinhua | Lhasa | January 7, 2003)
Those who would come to Tibet for sightseeing will now hail the scrapping of red-tape formalities as the Tibet Autonomous Region has just dropped its demands of Tibet-Travel Confirmation and Bottom-Line Grouping on overseas tourists.
Travelers from Hong Kong and Macao will not have to produce their Tibet-Travel Confirmation to start their trip while those from foreign countries do not have to gather and make travel groups of at least five travelers for their trip to the highland.
The new policy for overseas tourists has just been approved of by the autonomous regional government in accordance with the related preferential policies worked out by the fourth Tibet Work Seminar held by the central government.
In order to enhance tourism on the Roof of the World, tourism officials from the autonomous region have gone in the latter half of last year to America, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand on promotion tours.
Local authorities have planned to turn tourism into one of their pillar industries by the middle of this century in their overall drive to further develop the economy of the region.
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