The first Tibetan tourism master plan, jointly developed by the China National Tourism Administration and the Tibet Autonomous Region, has just been launched, with detail mapping of Tibetan tourism resources as well as concrete setting of targets for Tibetan tourism development in the next 15 years.

According to the master plan, during the period of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, Tibet will use Lhasa as the focal point to build four major rings, two tourism corridors and the Sichuan-Yunnan-Tibet Shangri-la wildlife habitat tourism district, its coverage radiating to include Nyingchi, Shannan, Xigaze, Na-chu and Ch'ang-tu, all five regions with the most concentrated Tibetan tourism resources.

(Chinanews.cn June 10, 2005)