Sky-High Luxury Hotels in Tibet: St. Regis, Shangri-La & InterContinental Head to Lhasa

St. Regis Lhasa ResortFirst it was the St. Regis. As you initial reported the couple of years ago, Starwood set the sights upon bringing the signature St. Regis servant service to the remote collateral of Tibet, accomplished final month with the opening of the 162-room road house steps from the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Potala Palace as well as Norbulingka. While receiving in the awesome views over Lhasa, guest can luxuriate in rooms equipped with marble bathrooms, plasma screen TVs, as well as yes, high speed Internet. And right away alternative oppulance brands have been following suit, opening oppulance hotels upon the roof tiles of the world. (Tibet is indeed the top segment upon earth, with an average betterment of 16,000 feet.) A new article in Bloomberg Businessweek calls attention to the current trend in China of targeting remote locations for road house growth, since of the glut in lodging in the urban areas:

In 2012, Shangri-La Middle East will open the 350-room road house in Lhasa, as well as InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) plans to add the high-end, 2,000-room road house in the city within three years. Visitors to Shangri-Las Lhasa road house will be means to experience Tibetan acquire rituals as well as the internal hand-churned butter tea, which is believed to be profitable at high altitudes as well as forestall chapped lips. The property will underline the full-service clinic to attend to guest who suffer from rise sickness Luxury today is not about champagne as well as caviar but about experiencing something your neighbor hasnt, says Jonas Ogren, the Singapore-based executive for STR Global, an attention research company. Its about experiencing champagne as well as caviar at Everest Base Camp.

Interest in Tibet, generally between the Chinese, has increasing since the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway four years ago.


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