Future Prospective of Tea-Tourism along with Existing Forest-Tourism in Duars, West Bengal, India

Authors

  • Chandan Datta Senior Research Fellow, Geography Department, Vivekananda College for Women, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/arss-2018.7.2.1434

Keywords:

Tea tourism, tea-labour-culture, tea lovers, Duars

Abstract

Duars has wider potential in the development of tea tourism as a separate industry. Government of West Bengal has focused on Tea Tourism in making it popular among tourist. Duars is land of natural beauty of mountain, dense green forest, waterfall, river, cave which act as a pull factor for tourist attraction. The tea garden adds new dimensions to the beauty of Duars. Tea tourism has been flourished with countries like China, Srilanka and Kenya. It is now spreading in India. Tea tourism which integrates the natural environment of tea garden, tea leaves plucking, tea production, tea packaging and tea labour-culture. It is a new type of tourism which covers different types of tourist entertainment such as sightseeing viewing, roaming in tea garden, having tea in tea stall from different tea factory, watching evening tea-labour cultural performance etc.

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Published

24-07-2018

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Datta, C. (2018). Future Prospective of Tea-Tourism along with Existing Forest-Tourism in Duars, West Bengal, India. Asian Review of Social Sciences, 7(2), 33–36. https://doi.org/10.51983/arss-2018.7.2.1434

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2018): July-September 2018

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