Yes, you can withdraw money from local banks and ATMs in Tibet. Please ask your Tibet Tour guide for a convenient location whenever you will need to.
Most of the businesses in Tibet do Accept all the major credit cards. However, cards like Diners Club, JCB, Master, Visa, and American Express works better. Yet, it is more convenient to have more than one different card. Remember to use the card without using a pin once if the Card machine doesn’t work while paying with cards.
You can withdraw money from the local banks and ATMs in other cities in Tibet. For example, in Lhasa, Shigatse, and Lhokha, ATMs can be found easily. But in remote villages and towns, they might be less frequent, and most of the time, machines would not be functioning.
You can use the bank of China‘s ATM to withdraw cash. Construction Bank ATM works for the above cards, Yet they apply surcharge the service fees of 2-4 USD per transaction.
You can also swipe your card on our Mobile card machine and exchange the money with us. Yet there will be a surcharge of 4% by the bank.