ARHOTA - For Tourism

A - Honey Tasting

A tourist group enjoys tasting with instructor.

- A novel, globally unique, cultural and exclusive activity with its form, content and presentation.
- A cultural and historic presentation about ancient Anatolian civilizations from new perspectives related to honey and the honeybees.
- A not-to-miss palate festival for gourmets, tasters, foodies.
- An unmissible chance to taste unique honey varieties, available in no other country.
- Attractive for highly educated people.
- An alternative activity to wine tasting.
- A "day saver" for the operators upon unexpected schedule alterations.^a
- A prefferable alternative for muslim tourists, especially in Ramadan.

Turks use drinking water with Turkish Coffee as palate cleanser for nearly 800 years. That's far before the rest of world aware of coffee.

The content of the presentation and the varieties of honey to be tasted will be fixed together with the tourism agency. But, in general will be similar to:

- Orientation and a brief introduction.
- From the floral diversity to honey varieties of Türkiye.
- Honey, honey bee and beekeeping by the ancient civilizations of Turkiye.
- Captivative stories from Hittites, Phrygians, Capadoccians, Mithradates VI Eupator, Romans etc.
- Importance of honey and honey bees for some beliefs.
- Some amazing facts obout honey bees with a little touch on scientific milestone experiments.
- Nectar - The cost of shipment and mysterious life of honey bees.
- Classifications of honey. Would you eat semi-digested honey? Or you already did?
- Interesting facts about globally famous Turkish Pine Honey.
- With evolutionary survival perspectives of our behaviours: what is tasting?
- Steps of tasting. How to build an elegant experience on tasting.
- Tasting the honey varieties within set, with guidance of our expert.^b
- A touristic printable pdf COA for participants.^c

B - Bee Safari

- Dive into the mysterious life of honeybees.
- An exciting, fully protected and hands-on experience, available nowhere else.
- Program begins in a bee proof seminar saloon with a short presentation.
- "The Sweet Heritage of Türkiye" (Pls. read our motivation)
- The cast difference on honeybee colonies and age switched duties.
- Some interesting historic and scientific milestones about Honeybees, Honeybee-Plant and Honeybee-Human relations.
- Inspection of transparent bee hives (Apivarium) to spot queen, workers, and if availabe the drones.
- Spot nurse bees caring the queen and larvae, foragers bringing pollen and nectar.
- Watch queen bee laying eggs and/or emerging young honeybees.
- Learn how honeybees make honey.
- See how forager bees inform about new high sugary nectar sources by waggle or by round dances.
- A touristic printable pdf "Bee Safari" COP is issued.^d

- For this part a brief instruction provided about how to behave in an apiary.

A preliminary briefing in the apiary

- The guests who willing to join this part, are provided with protective gloves and a veil or suit as necessary.

A group enjoying Bee Safari Activity

- Participating guests are guided with our master beekeeper at all times.

Apiary activities of Bee Safari program

Bee Safari apiary

- A new, high quality exclusive touristic destinations for tourism operators, travel agencies, touristic hotels or for congress organizers to sell for mutual benefit.

- These activities are being served, based on agreements with the corresponding partners.

- Want to include these elegant, novel, cultural and attractive activities for the destinations of your valuable guests?

- Interested with regional, countrywide or an international distributor/reseller partnership for these elegant touristic activities?

Please contact ARHOTA for the details.

Notes:
^a Needs some preliminary work on our side. Then available after the kickstart based on the agreement with the agency.
^b For the tasting part of the activity, guests will need their mobiles with a modern web browser. Guests always free to complete the tasting part later, remotely at their home, hotel etc. for certain duration.
^c The pdf "Artisanal Honey Taster" COAs issued automatically on the fly, only by completion of tasting with the Tasting Panel.
^d The pdf "Bee Safari" COP is downloaded by the participants from our web site by filling necessary information fields.
- We may change the content, conditions and the form of all the activities as necessary, without further notification.
- The actual activity may differ in any form or content, from the sample information provided on our web pages.
- Honey is not suitable for children below 2yo.