Rome - 04/05/2007 - The Department of Tourism in Tibet has promised to freeze ticket prices this year for entry to all tourist attractions. Since the opening of Qinghai-Tibet railway - which took place July 1, 2006 - Tibet has seen an influx of visitors to about 116,000 people in the first quarter with a consequent increase in the business of 105 million yuan (13.64 million U.S. dollars).
Among the most visited places in the Potala Palace - once home to the Dalai Lama, before the flight to Dharamsala in India - which receives 1,400 visits a day. Due to the continued influx of tourists visiting the hallowed halls of Buddhism, the office responsible for studying plans to adjust the number of daily visitors, in order to safeguard the integrity the ancient palace.
The stretch of railway linking Qinghai Province to Lhasa - the provincial capital of Tibet - has made major changes in the economy of the autonomous region - the first accessible only by aircraft or land - leading to hopes the administration in a turnover in 2007 to 3.4 billion yuan.
While the increase in earnings in the tourism sector recorded after the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway has brought benefits to the Treasury of the autonomous region at least by another, facilitated links with the rest of China seems to be a disadvantage for the Tibetans. The Tibetan soil, in fact, is rich in oil deposits, coal, uranium, gold and copper that will represent, secondo la ong Free Tibet Campaign , il 40 percento delle risorse minerarie cinesi. Si teme, quindi, che i materiali estratti in Tibet vadano a colmare le richieste delle regioni interne cinesi, senza perciò portare vantaggio agli abitanti della regione autonoma del Tibet.
(Fonte: Xinhua, Asianews)
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