Ooty to host Tea and Tourism festival 2007

A two-day 'Tea and Tourism festival 2007' will get underway at the open air stadium near the government botanical gardens on February 3rd at Ooty. Organizations and associations like the Nilgiri Hoteliers and Restaurant Owners Association, Tea Board, Tamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation, The Industrial Co-operative Tea Factories, United Planters Association of South India and the Small Tea Growers Association will participate in the conference, an official press release said. 'Romance with tea' would be the festival theme, which would be given wide publicity through posters, stickers and logos. Tea stalls would be set up where tourists can taste and buy different flavours of Nilgiri tea. One lakh nilgiri tea sachets would be disributed free of cost to tourists, it said. Besides entertainment and cultural programmes, tourists could travel in open air buses to various tourist spots. Special trains would run from Udhagamandalam to Runneymade station near Coonoor, the release said.

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