{"id":15990,"date":"2017-12-27T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2017-12-27T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:53:54","slug":"china-permits-helicopter-tourism-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/china-permits-helicopter-tourism-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"China permits helicopter tourism in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists visiting Tibet can take now helicopter rides to have a bird-eye view of the provincial capital Lhasa, according to a media report.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s government has confirmed approving trial operations of the helicopter operated by a Lhasa-based company, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers can book tours at the Tsechokling Airport or on WeChat, said deputy general manager Tseten Paldron, according to a media report.<\/p>\n<p>The company has two routes: one over Lhasa and another chartered flight to Nam Co, the world\u2019s highest saltwater lake, about one hour away from Lhasa.<\/p>\n<p>Tibet received over 23 million tourists mostly from different Chinese provinces last year. Chinese government is increasing the facilities to cash-in on the booming tourism.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists visiting Tibet can take now helicopter rides to have a bird-eye view of the provincial capital Lhasa, according to a media report. The city\u2019s government has confirmed approving trial operations of the helicopter operated by a Lhasa-based company, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Passengers can book tours at the Tsechokling Airport or on WeChat, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15992,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions\/15992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}