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Romancing the tea garden

Business India

1st January, 2007

Have you been there and done that! Here is an experience for the jaded palate.. A little nostalgia for the British Raj helps along with stories of the Koi hai days of the old tea planters.Reinforcing the Raj experience with a difference is the antiquate Land Rover, the GI jeep, the horse-driven carriage.

Casting for Gold

Sushmita Choudhury

" The thrill of the big Mahseer, hooked in heavy water, has an electric joy ... there is nothing quite likes it: and once experienced, it is imprinted forever on the tablets of memory." Forty-seven years later too these words from A.S.J. MacDonald's Circumventing the Mahseer hold good, though the number of people who can boast of reeling one in is fast dwindling.

Work Space Brewing a new vacation idea

Sumit Moitra

Tea tourism seems to be the brew of the month. The B M Khaitan group-owned McLeod Russel has drawn up a plan to deck up its British-era bungalows in Assam and north Bengal in a bid to attract domestic and foreign tourists to this ecologically-diversified region.

Destination tea gardens

The Hindu

Kohinoor Mandal

Herald the development of a new tourism destination... something that's remained unknown even to experienced travellers. If the project by McLeod Russel India Ltd takes off successfully, tea estates in India could be the most sought after tourist destinations in the future.

McLeod Russel set to begin tea tourism

The Hindu Business Line

10th October, 2005

The plan is to create a chain of properties across a number of tea gardens spreading from the Terai and Dooars in West Bengal to Assam and further into Myanmar. In a trend-setting exercise, tea producer McLeod Russel India Ltd (MRIL) has refurbished and redecorated one of its Assam tea gardens to begin tea tourism in India.

Harvesting tourist dollars in tea gardens

The Hindu Business Line

26th October, 2005

BALIPARA (ASSAM) : In what is set to become a trend, tea companies are taking a relook at some of their idle properties, in order to make them income-generating ventures, while also promoting the cause of the industry and helping local people.

Tea Tourism !   A Taste Of India

Financial Express

29th November, 2005

KOLKATA, NOVEMBER 29: Your tea break was never so exotic. Inspired by the success of whisky and wine makers, Indian tea planters are turning parts of their verdant Assam and Darjeeling estates in the east of the country into luxury resorts.

Tea Tourism

The Assam Tribune

16th September, 2006

A hot steaming cup of tea at your bedside & then the silken rays of the sun that is how your day begins and the world moves. Every drop of this golden brew is exciting and the excitement is as long lasting as the bushes themselves.

Tea tourism making headway in Assam

The TRAVTALK

17th September, 2006

Realising the tremendous tourism potential that tea gardens in Assam have, many tea companies are now converting their age-old tea heritage bungalows into tourist bungalows TRAVTALK. takes a look into this new genre of tourism.

Garden Fresh

The Economic Times

8th October, 2006

How about having that early morning cuppa in a tea garden bungalow? After that, why not tea off at the greens, close to the bungalow? Does it look like we are getting a little high on tea? Well, the tea companies certainly are on this novel theme - tea garden tourism - the latest entrant in the country's booming tourism industry.

Tea estates looking beyond traditional business

Hindustan Times

25th October, 2006

After normally taking over the operations of Williamson Tea Assam in May this year, the B M Khaitan-promoted McLeod Russel India Ltd is exploring new business opportunity in tea and nature tourism.

Take your pick, budding tea tourists

The Telegraph

26th October, 2006

BALIPADA (ASSAM), Oct. 25 : Owners of plantations on the verdant tea slopes of Assam and north Bengal are savouring the first flush of garden tourism, a business they hope will bloom at a time when their mainstay is wilting. The B M Khaitan-owned McLeod Russel India and the K K Birla group lead the line-up of estate-studded companies planning to develop properties suitable for tourism.