CHINA - Tourist arrivals to Three Gorges Dam hit record high in 2007

chinaview.cn, 2008-01-06

China's Three Gorges Dam attracted a record high of 1.25 million tourist arrivals last year, a year-on-year increase of six percent, according to tourism developers.
The dam received 310,000 foreign tourists in 2007, up 35 percent from 2006, said Xu Ting, a marketing clerk with the Yangtze River Three Gorges Tourism Development Co., Ltd.
2007 was also the third consecutive year for the dam to host more than one million tourists, according to Xu.
The dam area will see more tourists this year thanks to the great national events of the basic completion of the Three Gorges Project within the year and the Olympic Games in August, Xu added.

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