Tea Tourism is a form of travel focused on exploring tea estates, plantations, and the tea-making process. It offers visitors the chance to experience the history, culture, and production of tea in regions known for their tea cultivation, such as Darjeeling, Assam, or Sri Lanka.
Tea garden will be allowed to utilize 15% of the total grant area subject to a maximum of 150 acres for tea tourism and allied business activities.
Indian Tea Association and other stakeholders have been praying for getting facility for payment of salami in instalments considering the present stressed condition of tea industry. Many tea gardens could not get the lease renewed as they could not make payment of salami in full and at a time.
The term tea tourism will broadly include the overall experience of tourists in the midst of a tea garden or estate, staying in a heritage bungalow, at a home-stay feeling in a tea-village or in a modern resort.