Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region reported a 23.7-percent hike in tourist arrivals in the first three months of this year, heralding a rosy outlook for the plateau's tourism industry in the Year of the Water Dragon, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Tibet received 230,000 tourist arrivals from January to March, a senior official with the regional tourism bureau said Thursday.
Meanwhile, Tibet's tourism revenue climbed 27.9% over the same period of last year to reach 229 million yuan (36.34 million U.S. dollars), said Yu Yungui, secretary of the bureau's committee of the Communist Party of China, the news agency reported.