{"id":33588,"date":"2006-06-29T07:39:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/06\/29\/prices-fixed-for-beijing-lhasa-train-tickets\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T07:39:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:39:19","slug":"prices-fixed-for-beijing-lhasa-train-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/06\/29\/33588\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices Fixed For Beijing-Lhasa Train Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ticket prices for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway have been announced for the train from Beijing to Lhasa.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prices are RMB389 for hard seat, RMB813 for hard sleeper, and RMB1262 soft sleeper.<\/p>\n<p>Travel agencies in Beijing say this price range is about what they expected, so they expect to make a decent margin from the ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>Liang Yuan, Marketing Manager of China Travel International (CTI), says that the fare they pre-charged the tourists is RMB750 for hard sleeper, which is only RMB60 less than the new price.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a representative from China Railway Travel Service (CRTS) predicts that the Ministry of Railway might offer tickets that have not been booked for the train departing on July 1 to travel agencies, so it is still possible for them to send travel groups on the very first day.<\/p>\n<p>However, there will definitely be limited tickets in the first half of July after the railway is put into operation, so group reservations are suggested to delay their plans until mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>The train T27\/28 will run 48 hours for the whole journey between Beijing and Lhasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ticket prices for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway have been announced for the train from Beijing to Lhasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}