Everest Culture and Tourism Festival is a Tibet Festival, a grand meeting of Tsang culture and tourism, as well as the exhibition booth of building strong economy. Since 2001, Everest Culture and Tourism Festival has been held in Shigatse for nine times, and the band of Everest Culture has been formed, which improves the image of Shigatse region, displays the new achievements of the economic and social development of Shigatse, popularizes Shigatse, stimulates the fighting will of people of all nations, and promotes the balanced development of the undertakings.
Maybe different from the other Tibet Festival, the 9th Everest Culture and Tourism Festival is with the basic principle of publicizing Shigatse, displaying Shigatse, forging Shigatse and developing Shigatse, with the guiding ideology of developing the land, strengthening the land, enriching the land and steadying the land with culture and with the theme of beautifying Mount Everest, civilizing the Tsang. Make the best use of the resource advantage of the culture and tourism, to disseminate the excellent situation of economical development, social improvement, national unity, frontier consolidation and prosperous life, as to display the brand of Everest culture. The festival lasts for one month, including the contents of literature, art, tourism, trade, environmental management. Through the platform of Everest Culture and Tourism Festival, the Shigatse region planned to attract investment, have material exchange and tourism recommendation.
The 9th Everest Culture and Tourism Festival was crowned with complete success. According to the statistics, since August, the tourists being there have amounted to 0.245 million, with 0.35 common people taking part in it, and attracted 3.6 billion Yuan, including 13 items. The 30-day activities display a brilliant view of 30 days. The clang dances compete with the soaring vocals, and the traditional culture enhances each other's beauty. Waves of tourists come there, only to find one and another intangible item striking a pose on the stage, and the folk style picture scrolls extending in succession. The 9th Everest Culture and Tourism Festival display a home theater of cultural enjoyment to the Tibet people and tourists from all over the world.