alcotourism

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noun

The practice of traveling to drink alcohol.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounalcotourism (usually uncountable, plural alcotourisms)

plural alcotourisms

  1. uncountableusuallyThe practice of traveling to drink alcohol.

    My discussion here draws on early stage research into “alcotourism” that seeks to explore the various ways that people travel to drink, drink while traveling, or even drink to travel (Bell, 2008).

    2009, Tazim Jamal, Mike Robinson, editors, The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies, SAGE, →ISBN, page 26
    1 more example

    Given this association with unruly sexualities, stag tourism remains more controversial than many other forms of alcotourism (Bell 2008), albeit the collapse of sterling against the Euro has somewhat stemmed the flow of UK men to the Baltic states on stag and group tourism.

    2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145

Origin

Translations

German Sauftourismus
  • SauftourismusTranslations
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Chicago

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