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Since the Vedic ages, tourism has been in vogue in Bharat in the form of pilgrimage, yatras by social reformers and spiritual reformers, educative tours, eco-tourism, trade routes and so on. Even in small villages, there were inns to cater to tourists and needs of local inhabitants for civil functions, weddings, etc. In my small village of 30,000, named Barhaiya in Bihar, there was a big inn. Like places of pilgrimages, all villages had inns...