You are planning for the trip. You are looking for the cheapest tour program. You should beware of the scams such as the scams of Taxi drivers and local tour companies. The official-looking badges can also be deceiving. How do you know are they real or scams?
The tourist should have the information about the country that he wants to travel and also knows some tricks for protect your self from the scams. According to “How to avoid travel scams” The ways that you can check, they are real or not? First, when taxi drivers told you, “The hotel that you want to go is closed or the booking is full.” That means the other hotels pay the taxi drivers for commission to take you to their hotels. Second, in Beijing you may be get invite into the traditional teahouse or art exhibition and put pressured to you to buy expensive products. Beware attractive people who invite you to a bar and they will disappear. The result is the huge bill for the tourist. Last, you should beware of the offers to sell bad products, after that they lie to you and tell you that can sell their products in your country. These products can make money for you.
Thailand always has scams. They have many tricks the foreigners. I ever heard the scams told the foreigners you should buy these products because it cheaper than another shop. This product is really cheap but not good in quality. I think Thai people should not lie to foreigners because they will distrust and maybe not travel toThailand again. When the tourists will visit that particular country.They should have information and also know some scams tricks before travel.
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References
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20120224-how-to-avoid-travel-scams
Vow,
ReplyDeleteCan you suggest any solutions?
I think one necessary solution is that free speech must be protected. Whenever free speech is not protected, or is actually forbidden by the law, knowledge is impossible, so all opinions on the censored topic must be worthless. For example, in North Korea, the citizens really do seem to sincerely love their leader, but that is because it is strictly illegal to say anything negative, critical or bad about him. The result is that North Koreans have strong and sincere opinions on the heavily censored topic of their leader, but those opinions are all wrong, as we outside of North Korea can know. North Korean laws banning any negative comment necessarily mean that only people outside of North Korea can have a well founded opinion and knowledge about the North Korean leader! It sounds weird, but it must be true on strictly logical grounds. This sort of ignorance is the necessary and certain result of all censorship, including censoring pornography, army plans during war, film censorship, blasphemy laws, and so on: the censors always want other people to be ignorant of some knowledge.
This is also the reason why academics worry so much about academic freedom: academics want to know things, and censorship always and in every case makes knowledge impossible. For example, the US does not want terrorists to know how to make nuclear bombs, so it censors free speech on that topic to enforce ignorance. In this case, it might be a good thing that most people are ignorant and their opinions worthless. We definitely do not want terrorist to know how to build nuclear bombs!
Getting back to Vow's topic, one necessary condition to allow tourists to avoid scams is that free speech must be protected. People need to be able to tell the truth about scams, and even state a negative opinion that might be false. If they are wrong, it can be corrected and knowledge is possible. If false but honestly believed opinions cannot be stated, then they can never be corrected, and ignorance is guaranteed.
And as Vow points out, bad people use that ignorance and the false, worthless opinions that result from the ignorance to cheat other tourist victims. This is not a good thing.
Travel scams are big problems in many contrutries,such as china. I've been to china many times and i've seen many tricks. Last year when I visited Hainan island,my aunt bought watches from the sideways stand, and market woman gave the change with a fake banknote. My aunt didn't notice banknote that she gave was fake, she knew when she arrived hotel so it was too late. That is the first case I've met. The second event is when I went to shanghai, my group tour was forced to stay in the shop until someone bought anythig. That was the terrible trip in my life. I hope that some day chinese government could amend these cases.
ReplyDeleteFair's personal examples are a great contribution to this discussion. They are relevant and help us better understand the various forms and extent of this problem.
DeleteAnd although I'm normally against government interference, as you might already have guessed, this is a case where I agree with Fair. I think the government really does need to act: bad people are committing actual crimes that truly harm others very directly, and that is what the criminal law should be concerned with, instead of wasting limited financial and human resources on purely personal matters like drug use, gambling and pornography which do not normally harm other people.
This problem still happen to the travellers, so many of them that have a bad experience, would tell about the bad thing like deception them to buy the overprice for goods and services. This is the bad image to the country. If I go travel to anothers country, I should find information about price. When I need to go to another place, using public transport is the good the because I can know the fare from the ticket price. I can find the fare rate on the table, if they notice on the board. Furthermore, the local friend can help you to find the good price of goods and services.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of traveling, the biggest advantage of traveling is broadening our horizon. We will find out the world we are living is always over our imagination and it is limitless, boundless also infinite possibility. Another advantage is making friends who are from different countries so that we can learn their different cultures and experience them. However, there are some disadvantages of traveling as well. Communicating with language barrier is the biggest disadvantage of traveling to another country where the native language are not your mother language and English particularly. Another disadvantage is the above mentioned reason, many of travel scams is waiting for the careless foreign tourists.
ReplyDeleteTo sum up, as long as you are aware of these disadvantages of traveling and avoid them, no one won't have an unforgettable and delightful trip.