On Friday, the Adastra Superyacht was launched in China’s Pearl River. The $15 million, 140-foot vessel floated majestically above the river, looking more like a spacecraft than an actual vehicle.

Five years ago, Hong Kong shipping industry billionaire Anto Marden commissioned Chinese boat engineer, John Shuttleworth Yacht Desgins, to craft a yacht unlike anything the world has ever seen, says Yahoo.com. Now Marden’s dream has come to fruition.

The Adastra features a luxurious interior, complete with dinning area, sleeping spaces, and a full bathroom and shower.The ship can comfortably house nine guests in two guest cabins and a large master cabin. There are also crew quarters for up to six crew members. Even when there’s no crew to steer the ship, the yacht can be controlled with an iPad from a range of 164ft. The Adastra is said to be used by the owners to travel between two Indonesian islands that they allegedly own.

Don’t get too excited about this recent innovation in boating. Even if you can afford the $15 million yacht, there’s no way you can get one. There’s only one of these space age vessels in the world and it’s already spoken for.

LHASA, April 19 (Xinhua) — Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region reported a 23.7-percent hike in tourist arrivals in the first three months of this year, heralding a rosy outlook for the plateau’s tourism industry in the Year of the Water Dragon.

Tibet received 230,000 tourist arrivals from January to March, a senior official with the regional tourism bureau said Thursday.

Meanwhile, Tibet’s tourism revenue climbed 27.9% over the same period of last year to reach 229 million yuan (36.34 million U.S. dollars), said Yu Yungui, secretary of the bureau’s committee of the Communist Party of China.

Yu attributed the tourism boom to a growing number of sightseers and religious travelers.

As road conditions in Tibet have improved, many private car owners from China’s interior regions have chosen to drive to the plateau region, he said.

Interprovincial expressways linking Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai provinces with the plateau region reported a significant rise in traffic flows starting in February.

Figures provided by the road traffic management bureau indicated that 18,600 private cars hit the road to Tibet in the first quarter, up 27.8% year on year.

Meanwhile, rising incomes have enabled more Tibetans to make pilgrimages to Lhasa. From January to March, the holy city received 128,000 religious travelers, said Yu.

The tourism bureau’s winter travel packages, including discounted tickets and hotel rates, honeymoons on “the roof of the world” and Tibetan New Year-themed travel packages, also helped boost Tibet’s winter tourism.

In the six months from October to the end of March, a traditionally slack season, Tibet received a record 1.79 million tourist arrivals, up 47.8% year on year, said Yu.

This year, Tibet expects 10 million tourist arrivals and 12 billion yuan in tourism revenue, he said.