Mount Everest Base Camp and Rongbuk monastery, Tibet.
Mount Everest Base Camp and Rongbuk monastery, Tibet. <span class="media-attribution">Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kartlasarn/6477880613" target="_blank" rel="external">Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn)</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/" target="_blank" rel="external">CC BY 2.0</a></span>

Tourism to Tibet was booming in 2014 with a record 15 million visitors - a 20% increase from 2013. More than 51,000 people visited the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, which was a 6% increase on the previous year. The region also saw a record 3.15 million air passengers, likely due to an increased number of flights to Tibet’s five airports, most of them from mainland China. The government plans to implement a new road to Everest Base Camp in 2015, along with building a tourist village nearby to accommodate visitors. Read more: traveldailymedia.com

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