Beijing is hosting the Winter Games amid international alarm over rights violations against minority groups, particularly its mostly Muslim Uyghur population.
A further 300 are in neighbouring Tibet, where campaigners have long accused the government of religious repression and cultural erasure. The company said that it had a "long-term partnership" spanning several Olympics and had spoken to the International Olympic Committee about "the importance of human rights".
"More and more" tourists were flocking to the "beautiful" region, said a landlady surnamed Yu in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. One US-based Kashgar native said tourists arrived in droves only after waves of arrests from 2017 cleared many neighbourhoods of Uyghur inhabitants.
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