Over the years of experiences in Tibet inbound tourism service, Local China Guide – Tibet Tourism Center is featured on www.localchinaguide.com, a growing local tourism platform supporting local guides better and support travelers further. Here we will share a little more about how it got started, why it exists, what we do and why you should trust our travel advice. If you have used us on one of the Tibet tours, you have heard all of this in much further detail. But we think it is important for everyone reading through our site and emailing us for Tibet travel advice to know a bit more about us, how this all started, what we do and why we do it. If you have questions about traveling in Tibet, send an email to inquiry@tibettravelexpert.com.
【How it all started】

Wanting to find a practical and real way to help the Tibetan people, TibetCtrip.com general manager Tony worked as an English teacher in Lhasa high school in the early 2000’s after his graduation from university with a bachelor’s degree in economics and English. Most of the teachers in this high school were Tibetan people. The teachers, especially the local Tibetan teachers really wish to see their people be brought out of severe poverty and to see their people be given opportunities in life that previous generations didn’t have. It was difficult for local high school students to improve English because they were really lack of the practical English materials and correct teaching method, and of course the language situation at school. Most of the students were poor in English, some of them even can not read alphabets. And it was fairly difficult for them to get entry to better universities for further study. This was how Tony, as a teacher, got involved in the education in the Lhasa high school for one year. But after one year work, frankly the students still can not use English at all because most of them did not use English in daily life. During the one year time in Lhasa, Tony walked to almost every corner of Lhasa, and found that Tibet was very attractive to foreign travelers and there were many worldwide travelers in whole Tibet, this was really great opportunity for local people to get involved in the real English language situation and employment. Tony found out that it would be much easier to help local Tibetan people to work in inbound tourism and get them involved in the foreign tourism services. Also to help local people get jobs in tourism, this did not only improve the income of the local people, but also provided them a new window through which they can learn the outside world from the worldwide travelers when they meet and serve the foreign travelers. This was really a great opportunity for Tony to do something meaningful to local community.
Tony then began to work in travel agency and gained lots of experiences in Tibet tour organization and tour operation. Tony quickly met many Tibetan drivers and also new guides. As a team, Tony always tried his best to discuss with local tourism service people and keep training guides and drivers to show the best of Tibet. More and more foreign travelers wanted to travel Tibet with Tony’s agency because of quality services and also fair local prices. When the business got better and better, more and more local Tibetan people knew Tony well, and more Tibetan drivers and Tibetan guides loved to join Tony’s agency. This really moved Tony and the Tibetan tour service team quite a lot.
Tony deeply understand that, tourism should benefit the most local people. Some of the local Tibetan people wanted to work as English speaking guide focused on Tibetan culture, Tibetan Buddhism, or Tibet photography and plateau trekking, private drivers catering to foreign travelers or were wanting to open small hotels, guesthouses or even open up restaurants serving Tibetan and Western food. These jobs and opportunities were definitely plentiful, but few were going to Tibetans. While for Tony’s agency, we only employed local Tibetan people. Tony also trained some guides to open tour agencies as well.
Tony and his team have been trying best to bring the Tibet inbound tourism to a higher level, hence a new platform of Local China Guide – Tibet tourism center was born.