Legal Operating Framework / Updated July 2026
Terms & Conditions (Force Majeure Policies)
This page explains how website information, custom quotations, permits, route access, pricing, safety adjustments, and force majeure events are handled in practice for Starbright Tibet Journeys.
Important Notice
Nothing on this website should be treated as a final promise or fixed travel commitment. Actual trip content, permit scope, hotels, vehicles, route access, operating dates, pricing, staffing, and support levels are finalized only through direct communication and written confirmation.
Informational Content Only
Nothing on this website is a final operational promise, a binding quote, or a guarantee of route access, hotel class, transport type, permit outcome, timing, or price.
Written Confirmation Controls
A custom trip becomes operationally confirmed only after direct communication, document review, written confirmation, and any required payment steps are completed.
Safety And Compliance First
If conditions, permit rules, road access, weather, health, or local instructions change, the final route may need to change for safety, legality, or feasibility.
01 / Scope
How to read this website
This website is a planning and inquiry platform for tailor-made Tibet journeys. It describes the kinds of routes, hotel standards, support levels, cultural experiences, and operational approaches that may be available. It does not create a final contract simply because a page, itinerary sample, image, route description, or travel style appears on the site.
- Website text, images, route notes, sample itineraries, and feature descriptions are illustrative and informational.
- Nothing on this website constitutes a final offer, operational guarantee, or legally binding commitment regarding itinerary scope, permit approval, hotel category, transport type, route access, travel dates, pricing, or service availability.
- All operational details remain subject to direct communication, supplier confirmation, document review, government or local authority requirements, and written final confirmation issued by our team.
02 / Booking Basis
When a custom journey becomes confirmed
Because every Tibet trip is custom-built, final arrangements are established case by case. A proposal, quote range, or route sketch is not the same thing as a confirmed trip file.
- A booking is not fully confirmed until we have completed the relevant written confirmation process and any required deposit, identity documents, or permit materials have been received and accepted.
- Quoted prices, room categories, vehicle types, staffing plans, and route sequencing may change before final written confirmation if supplier costs, access rules, fuel costs, taxes, or permit conditions change.
- Where any website statement conflicts with a later written itinerary, invoice, booking message, permit requirement, or government instruction, the later written confirmation or official requirement prevails.
03 / Permits And Access
Tibet operations depend on approvals and local controls
Travel in Tibet is subject to permit processing, route approval, regional access restrictions, weather realities, altitude safety considerations, and evolving local operating rules. Availability shown on the website should never be read as a guaranteed right of access.
- Permit timing, approval scope, and route access may change without notice and remain subject to the decisions of the relevant authorities.
- Extra local permissions may be required for border areas, Mount Everest, Mount Kailash, Ngari, military-sensitive zones, monastery controls, festival periods, or temporary traffic regulation windows.
- We may delay, re-sequence, substitute, shorten, or cancel a service if a route becomes unsafe, unlawful, non-compliant, or operationally unavailable.
04 / Traveler Responsibilities
What the traveler must provide and maintain
A smooth Tibet trip depends on accurate documents and realistic health disclosure. Travelers remain responsible for the accuracy and readiness of their own personal documentation and for following lawful travel instructions.
- You must provide accurate passport information, nationality details, visa information where applicable, arrival information, and other requested documents within the requested timelines.
- You are responsible for checking that your passport validity, visa status, transit arrangements, insurance, and personal medical readiness are appropriate for the trip.
- You should disclose material health, mobility, altitude, dietary, or safety-related conditions that could affect trip planning or emergency support.
- You must respect local law, monastery etiquette, environmental rules, and guide safety instructions throughout the journey.
05 / Force Majeure
Events outside reasonable operational control
Certain events can interrupt or reshape Tibet travel even after substantial planning has been completed. These events may affect permits, transport, hotel operations, border access, guide deployment, or health support arrangements.
- Force majeure or unavoidable extraordinary events can include severe weather, snow closure, landslides, earthquakes, flood, wildfire, epidemic controls, flight or rail cancellation, road closure, monastery closure, civil disturbance, border restrictions, military control measures, political directives, utility failure, or sudden regulation changes.
- If such events arise, we may need to amend the route, substitute services, postpone travel segments, shorten the itinerary, or cancel parts of the trip where continuing would be unsafe, unlawful, or impracticable.
- Any refund, credit, rebooking, or unrecoverable cost position will depend on the confirmed booking terms, the timing of the disruption, and the rules imposed by the relevant suppliers or authorities.
06 / Suppliers And Liability
How third-party services and liability limits are handled
Your trip may involve hotels, drivers, domestic flights, trains, attraction operators, permit channels, or specialist local service providers. We coordinate these services, but third-party systems and official decisions can affect delivery.
- We are not responsible for losses caused directly by inaccurate traveler information, missed deadlines, invalid travel documents, personal medical non-disclosure, or a traveler choosing to disregard operational instructions.
- We are also not responsible for indirect, consequential, incidental, or speculative losses such as missed onward opportunities, lost business time, or disappointment arising from a route or viewpoint change.
- Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or limit any liability or consumer protection right that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable law.
Prevailing Documents
What overrides general website language
The controlling trip record is the most recent written confirmation we issue for your specific case, together with any relevant invoice terms, permit instructions, payment notes, and mandatory authority requirements. General marketing copy and sample travel ideas do not override those later documents. This page is a general operating-policy summary and does not replace mandatory legal rights or case-specific legal advice.