Official: Beijing tourism revenue to reach $35 bln in 2009
Beijing is likely to report 240 billion yuan (35.1 billion U.S. dollars) in tourism revenue in 2009, up 8 percent from the previous year, a municipal tourism official said here Friday.
The growth came after 2 million free entrance tickets of major tourist sites were offered this year amid other measures to boost tourism, Gu Xiaoyuan, [...]