Sales of entrance tickets to Potala Palace were brisk in railway-linked Tibet last year, but political advisors and legislators worry that more tourists will be disappointed by scant ticket supplies.

Tourism to Tibet is soaring with the operation of the new railway line which opened last July, running from Xining in northwest China's Qinghai Province to Lhasa in southwest China's Tibet.

As the train races across the Lhasa Bridge, Potala Palace is easily viewed in the background. But it has become harder to get into the sacred complex as only a limited number of entrance tickets are available each day.That means, each year, hundreds of thousands of tourists are unable to visit the famous palace officials say.

The 1,956-kilometer Qinghai-Tibet railway ended the region's history without a rail link and connected it more closely with the rest of the world. About 2.45 million tourists visited Tibet last year, up 40 percent from 2005 Local tourism officials expect to host three to four million this year, daunting numbers given Tibet's current population of 2. 7 million.

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