Bird's-eye views are coming to Tibet

A helicopter tour service will be launched in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, in August to allow tourists to view the plateau landscape from the sky.

Tourism companies have been considering aerial tours in Lhasa for years, but the Potala Tourism and Culture Group is the first to get approval for flights in a designated airspace.

The airspace covers a part of Lhasa and the Namtso Lake area, 240 kilometers from the capital, according to Dawa Phuntsok, president of the tour group.