Tibet Permits
Beside a valid passport with a valid Chinese visa, a Travel Entry Permit or TTB Permit is required for entering into Tibet legally. If you want to visit the unopened areas, you need another permit - Aliens Travel Permit or PSB Permit. You can get all these permits very easily from us.
Entry Permit
This permit is issued by the Tibet Tourism Bureau (TTB), so also called TTB Permit. It is required while booking the
flights and trains to Lhasa and checking in at the airports. Groups traveling by land cruisers also need this permit. Please see its title sample here -
There are two pages for the permit: one is the approval letter from the Tibet Tourism Bureau with an unique number and anti-fales label at the top right and another one is the group name list with the group memebers basic data. Both pages are stamped by the Bureau. Usually we'll help you prepare the permit application one month ahead of your travel time.
PSB Permit / Aliens' Travel Permit
When travel to areas officially closed (such as Gyantse, Sakya, Mt. Everest, Samye, the Yarlung Valley, etc.),
an Aliens' Travel Permit issued by the Public Security Bureau (PSB) is required. Here is a picture of it:
Other Permits
In addition, a military permit and a foreign-affairs permit are required for traveling to sensitive border areas
like Mt. Kaillash and the eastern Tibet.
As a local travel agency based in Lhasa for more than ten years, we can get all these Tibet permits for you very easily. The only thing you need to do is to scan a copy of your passport and Chinese visa, and provide following information:
- Full Name;
- Gender;
- Date of Birth;
- Nationality;
- Passport Number
- Occuptation
Note: Diplomats, journalists and government officials shall travel to Tibet under the arrangement of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Tibet Government, instead of a travel agency.
More Relevant Information:
Passport and China Visa
How much does the Tibet permit cost and How to get the China Visa for travelling Tibet from Nepal