The Party's Back on for High-End Resorts After India Eases Booze Ban
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General interior view of Roseate Hotel along the Delhi-Jaipur highway on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on 19 August 2017. Photographer - Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg
Photographer: Anindito MukherjeeThe Roseate hotel is an oasis of award-winning luxury in acres of gardens just outside New Delhi’s airport. Perfectly situated on one of India’s key tourist drives, its position had been a major turn-off for months.
The Lek Bunnag-designed resort on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway was among hundreds of establishments subject to a Supreme Court order banning the sale of alcohol from within 500 meters, or a third of a mile, from a highway. The prohibition, implemented on April 1 to curb drunken driving, was partially lifted by the country’s top court Wednesday, alleviating a five-month slide in business for India’s liquor and hospitality firms.