World Tea Expo: Water, water, water
Most of you already knew that tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world – that includes all teas. Water is the obvious number one. With over 300 plus exhibitors and thousands of attendees, the logistics of water becomes an issue. Watching the staffers of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center push around hundreds of five gallon containers of water wore me out – just watching. As someone that goes to many trade shows for multiple industries (and used to work for a Resort and Conference Center), I guess I just pick up on the details. I can remember the days of wondering how we were going to fill six hundred water glasses and iced tea glasses without the ice melting before the guests arrive. It’s a lot of work. The World Tea Expo, the exhibitors, and the staff do an excellent job for all of us. I’m sure there are always problems, but to most of us the event seems well-coordinated and well-executed. The attendance and feedback from everyone seems to reinforce my observation.
The World Tea Expo is such a great event for exhibitors to interact with their current and potential clients. I’ve met so many wonderful people along my journey into the industry because of the show. I do my best with marTEA.com to help the Internet shoppers, tea rooms, and general consumers link to all of their great products.
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Tags: Water, World Tea Expo
June 24th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
this year, the world tea expo was a great event.
i had the opportunity to discover a new tea company in NYC (my hometown), Tavalon, which takes Adagio’s tea expert…
so Chris Cason has a really interesting blog all about tea, with tea cocktails recipes on http://www.tavalon.com/blog
amazing
June 28th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Adagio has quite the following…but don’t we all have a copy of Chris Cason’s book that was distributed with Adagio orders – “A Guide to Tea?” Is Chris writing another book?
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