 Tibet received 2.5 million tourists in 2006, including 150,000 foreigners.In 2007, the figure climbed to some 4 million visitors but fell to only 2,246,400 in 2008 
on account of the region being closed to tourism from March till June.Between January and July 2009, more than 2.7 million tourists visited the TAR, three times as many as for the same period in 2008, generating an income of 2.29 billion yuans.