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BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 25: (CHINA OUT) Tourists visit the National Stadium (Bird's Nest), on October 25, 2008 in Beijing, China. Major Olympic venues, including the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube, have opened to the public after the Olympics games. China is poised to become the world's hottest tourist destination by 2020, receiving 137 million overseas tourists in that year alone, and may reach these numbers earlier than anticipated since the Beijing Olympics has generated strong interest, according to the World Tourism Organization.
BEIJING, CHINA – OCTOBER 25: (CHINA OUT) Tourists visit the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest), on October 25, 2008 in Beijing, China. Major Olympic venues, including the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube, have opened to the public after the Olympics games. China is poised to become the world’s hottest tourist destination by 2020, receiving 137 million overseas tourists in that year alone, and may reach these numbers earlier than anticipated since the Beijing Olympics has generated strong interest, according to the World Tourism Organization.
By | newsroom@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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The area around Beijing’s massive Bird’s Nest stadium will be turned into a shopping and entertainment complex in three to five years, a state news agency said. Officially known as Beijing National Stadium, the showpiece of the Beijing Olympics has fallen into disuse since the end of the Games. Paint is already peeling in some areas, and the only visitors these days are tourists who pay about $7 to walk on the stadium floor and browse a pricey souvenir shop. The only confirmed event at the 91,000-seat stadium this year is Puccini’s opera “Turandot,” set for Aug. 8. The Associated Press; AP photo

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