alcotourism

English

Etymology

Blend of alcohol +‎ tourism

Noun

alcotourism (usually uncountable, plural alcotourisms)

1. The practice of traveling to drink alcohol.
   • 2009, Tazim Jamal, Mike Robinson, editors, The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies, SAGE, →ISBN, page 26:

     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).

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

     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.

Related terms

• alcotourist