Future fast growth

Yang Yong, general manager of the Tibet Vista Tour, an international travel agency providing tourism services for both inbound and domestic tourists, says that his company expects to receive 2,000 overseas travelers this year, and the overseas tourists his company has received so far this year are mostly foreigners who work and live in China.

"The proportion of overseas tourists who made trips to the region from outside China is relatively small," Yang says. "Most overseas travelers whom my company has received this year were mainly from Europe, the US and Southeast Asian countries."

Yang says that his company expects to have 25 percent of the 8,000 tourists it had dealt with in 2019, as the recovery of flights is slow, and the process of applying for a Chinese visa is still difficult.

"Most overseas tourists have a positive impression about touring in Tibet," he says, adding that there are still complaints; for example, some are unhappy with the toilets at the tourism sites.

Yang says that his company provides hotel reservations, food, transportation, tickets, tour guides and document processing.

He says that foreign tourists choose to go to Mount Qomolangma, commonly referred to as Mount Everest in the West, in the autonomous region's city of Shigatse, and they also like to go to western Tibet's Ngari prefecture and the scenic routes linking with attractions in Nepal.