Compared with the successful tea tourism development of Hangzhou
and Wuyi Mountain, the benefit that we can get from tea production
and tourists is far from satisfaction,..……many people come
to our garden for free visits. Besides leisure purpose, they will normally
buy our Maojian tea after their recreation here. They are
welcome to our garden unless they interfere with our business. But
if too many visitors come here, they may bring too much rubbish
and disorder to us. What should we do? Tourists should be more
than tea lovers and tea buyers, and they should act environment friendly
in our garden… local government should guide us to plan
and develop tea tourism properly and to deal with all these things cooperatively.
No individual businessman can plan, promote and develop
tea tourism solely.’
–Representatively quoted from one tea garden owner
While tour guides commented like this:
“As Maojian tea is famous for great reputation, tea tourism resources
should be developed rather than being left unused. The combination
of tourism and tea is not enough here…we can charge