Xizang sees greater tourist influx during holiday

Tourist attractions in the Xizang autonomous region embraced more than 2.38 million visits during the just-concluded Spring Festival holiday, an increase of 16.56 percent year-on-year, according to the region's culture and tourism department.

It said that tourism-related expenditure during the holiday reached 1.94 billion yuan ($266.36 million), up 13.68 percent year-on-year.

Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, fell on Jan 29 this year and marked the beginning of the Year of the Snake. Spring Festival was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in December.