The Lhasa Hotel (), formerly known as Holiday Inn Lhasa is a 4-star hotel in the city of

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China. The inner urban area of Lhas ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Taman ...

, China; lying at an altitude of 3,600 m.

History

Completed in September 1985, it is located northeast of the Norbu Lingka Summer Palace in west of Lhasa. The hotel is the flagship of the China International Travel Service' installations in Tibet. It accommodates about 1,000 guests over 450 rooms (suites).

In media

An account of running the hotel is related in the 2001 book ''

The Hotel on the Roof of the World ''The Hotel on the Roof of the World'' is a humorous account by Alec Le Sueur of the attempt to manage the Lhasa Hotel, Holiday Inn Lhasa in Tibet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The book was published in the UK in 1998 by Summersdale and has ...

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External links

Official site

References

Hotels in Tibet Buildings and structures in Lhasa 1985 establishments in China {{Tibet-stub