The Atlanta World Tea Expo, 2007

Arriving at the World Tea Expo in Atlanta this summer. I was immediately overwhelmed by the size of the venue. Of course, the organization was one of the first thingsthat I noticed, reflecting some of the general differences between Asian and Western design. ...

The Worl Tea Expo, was very neat and straight, with seven or so rows all aranged parallel with equal space between for the traffic of consumers to move comfortably on the right side of each aisle. Looking up at the vast ceiling and following it down to the huge grid of booths, I was already very impressed. ...

One of the key points of interest was something that I had indeed expected before I even arrived in America, and that was the large array of different products. There were so many booths beyond just those selling teas. ...

The Art of Tea Magazine's booth did extreemly well. There was a constant stream of people looking through the magazines, signing up for subscriptions ans asking questions about Wushing Publications. The overall impression I got fielding questions and listerning to the people that visited our booth was that America was "ready" for "real information" on team and that this magazine had come at a really auspicious time when interest in the tea was growing, and the thirst for genuine knowledge hadn't yet been quenched. ...