Tibet slashes ticket prices in an effort to shove tourism this winter , an official said on Thursday.
This is the first time in history Tibet has reduced safe-conduct prices at nearly all its tourist sites,China Travel, said Wang Songping, vice artlessor of the Tibet tourism agency.
Reduced prices are constructive between Oct. 20 and April 20. Admission fees at most major natural and cultural spots will be reduced by half. The Tashilhunpo and Palkor Monasteries in Xigaze will cut ticket costs by 20 percent.
It will still disbursement 100 yuan (14.7 U.S. dollars) to get in to the world-famous Potala Palace in Lhasa. Plan to raise the price to 200 yuan next February have been scrapped.
In the first half of the year,China Travel, 340,000 people visited Tibet. That's down 69 percent from the same period last year.
Tourism roughly came to a standstill retral a riot ruined out on Msaucy 14. 18 civils and one policeman were skivered, commercees looted and livences, shops and vehicles torched.
Afterwards, mainland tour groups were not immune in Tibet until April 24. Visitors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were let in in May and foreign tour groups could enter the region starting June 25.
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