New entrant into the world tourism - liquor tourism

The ban of liquor in Bihar has led to the emergence of a new form of tourism - it is liquor tourism. People of Bihar need to have liquor for various religious rites from marriages to funerals and, since the product has been banned in the state, the eager beavers have taken to crossing over into neighboring state of UP to quench their thirst.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 3 May 2016.

It seems the police caught an old woman of Buxar who was in possession of a dozen odd 200 ml bottles into her cloth bag. On interrogation she fell to her knees and requested the police to let her go because she was taking the liquor to complete some religious rituals of her tribal society following a death in her family.
Apart from people like this old woman, there are a large number of youths and middle-aged people who cross the border using two-wheelers and SUVs to reach beer and Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) outlets in UP. They want to set the "mood for celebrations" before rejoining their marriage parties back home.
Subsequent to the blanket ban on liquor trade and consumption by the Bihar government on April 5, tipplers from neighboring Bihar have been pouring into UP - their targets are the liquor shops of Ballia, Ghazipur and Chandauli along the border. And, the number of such 'tourists' has grown with the onset of the marriage season. Some shops are seeing overcrowding.


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