15 Jan 2009

The Great [China-Russia] Tea Route
www.tearoad.ru, Ulan-ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia.
Self-description: "The project 'Great Tea Route' aims to use the rich cultural and historical heritage of the vast territory of Eurasia, associated with the [bygone] era of the trade routes for tourism development, [...]."
Site contents:
* Events (Baikal meeting of the project, The Fifth International Tourism Forum, Business meeting of the project participants in the Perm region, 2009); * Documents [on tourism development]; * On the Tea Route (History, Geography [incl. a map of the 19th c. Asia's tea routes at http://tearoad.ru/WT/sites/tearoad/misc/map2.jpg], Sights, Bibliography [96 articles and books, all in Russian - ed.]); * News (Shooting a video on the Great Tea Route, The proposal for tourist-member project). * Contacts. * Great Way of Tea (The Development Phase of the project); * Participation in the project (Organizing Committee Participants); * Plans (The plan of action for 2008, The plan of action for 2009); * Tours (Tours of Buryatia, Tours in Russia); * All about tea
[A site exclusively in Russian. Can be translated into other languages via http://translate.google.com/ or other online tools - ed.]
URL http://www.tearoad.ru/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30