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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Lhasa gets first luxury hotel as Chinese tourists flock to Tibet

WEALTHY TOURISTS will soon be able to gaze out at the Roof of the World as a waiter expertly pours a glass of imported wine in the intimate, club-style setting of the Decanter bar at Tibet’s first luxury hotel – the St Regis Lhasa Resort.
For hundreds of years an isolated, mystical and poor enclave ruled by red-robed Tibetan Buddhist monks, Lhasa has changed profoundly since Chinese troops entered in 1950, and started to impose the dominant Han Chinese culture on the territory.

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