Need to unwind in a gold-plated swimming pool, then enjoy butler service in your suite, with oxygen tanks on hand?
Even at 3690m above sea level, Tibetan capital Lhasa can now accommodate such high-end desires, after its first five-star hotel opened in June.
But non-Chinese visitors have had to wait for Tibet to reopen to foreign tourists.
Following a now-annual travel ban in March, the anniversary of deadly riots in 2008, foreigners were banned from Tibet from late June for most of July due to two major political anniversaries, travel agents in Lhasa and Beijing said. In April, foreigners were barred from some Tibetan areas of neighbouring Sichuan province, after unrest at a Buddhist monastery.
Officials plan to make tourism a key industry in Tibet by doubling the number of visitors - mostly Chinese - to 15 million in 2015. Tibet has a permanent population of 3 million, of whom 90% are ethnic Tibetans, according to the 2010 census.
Tibet is the only region of China for which foreign tourists must secure a special travel permit, in addition to a Chinese visa. Domestic Chinese tourists remained unaffected, said Zhao Li, a sales agent at Tibet Taixing tour company in Lhasa.
Both travel agents said official notices cited the reason for the ban as the celebration of the 60th anniversary of communist rule over Tibet, dating to a May 1951 agreement the party calls the "Peaceful Liberation of Tibet," and the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party's founding on July 1. Tibet was a de facto sovereign state the size of western Europe when invaded in 1950 by Chinese communist troops.
The state-run Tibet Tourism Bureau in Lhasa declined to comment on the ban when contacted by USA Today.
Tibetan authorities "fear the situation in Tibet is unpredictable, as Tibetans have shown they will risk their lives to show loyalty to the Dalai Lama, and opposition to Chinese policy," said Kate Saunders, the London-based communications director for the International Campaign for Tibet, a lobbying group.
After the Tibetan spiritual leader fled Tibet for India following a failed uprising in 1959, Chinese authorities destroyed thousands of Buddhist monasteries and killed thousands of Tibetan monks and nuns.
"Authorities attempt to give an appearance of openness - 'Come and see the Tibetans are happy and prosperous under Chinese rule' - yet at the same time, they close foreign tourism to Tibet," Saunders said.
Tibet has become "a focus of world tourism," Tibetan guide Labapuchi told a group of Han Chinese visitors to a large-scale exhibition in Beijing extolling "60 years of achievements" in Tibet.
"We welcome the whole world to visit Tibet and understand our culture," said Labapuchi (22), a student in Beijing who plans to work in environmental protection in Tibet.
Like their guides, visitors to the exhibit appeared unaware of the ban on foreign tourists.
"I thought it was quite stable there this year," said Li Junhui (56), a Beijing-based clothing retailer.
Li and 40 friends planned to visit Tibet, some travelling on the record-breaking train that opened in 2006, and others driving on a nine-day road trip, Li said.
"We in the rest of China have cared about and supported Tibet for so many years. Now I want to see it for myself." Well-heeled Chinese visitors form the key target market for the new St Regis Lhasa Resort, the city's first five-star facility, room director Jean-Michel Kok told state-run Xinhua News Agency. In the next three years, the Shangri-La and InterContinental hotel groups will also both open high-end hotels in the city, Xinhua reported.