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Two Tier Pricing


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Poll: Two Tier Pricing (73 member(s) have cast votes)

Should foreigners pay more to visit monuments, etc?

  1. Yes (28 votes [38.36%])

    Percentage of vote: 38.36%

  2. No (44 votes [60.27%])

    Percentage of vote: 60.27%

  3. Don't Know (1 votes [1.37%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.37%

Should foreigners pay more for internal flights?

  1. Yes (4 votes [5.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.48%

  2. No (68 votes [93.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 93.15%

  3. Don't Know (1 votes [1.37%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.37%

Should foreigners pay more for hotels?

  1. Yes (6 votes [8.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.22%

  2. No (66 votes [90.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 90.41%

  3. Don't Know (1 votes [1.37%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.37%

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#61 Snowcrab

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Posted 16 September 2006 - 12:45 AM

Well it is a poll, and the results seem to indicate there is less resistance to the idea of higher prices for foreigners at monuments than there is resistance to higher prices for foreigners for everything else. Personally, for me visiting officially suported monuments is very optional. Compared to my country all of India is a monument. It's all just fascinating. If I don't have the cash I just don't go to the "official" monuments like the Taj.

Do get pissed off when hotel prices are cranked just because I look like a mark though. There is really nowhere it would be safe for an unaccompanied woman to just pitch a tent by the side of a boulevard or any municipal camping spaces available for visitor use so shelter is not optional, it is a necessity.

"If there is no two tier pricing overseas and everyone paid the same price, then where would Indians encounter discrimination for them to complain?"

Of course there is discrimination overseas, especially in the matter of housing. It's not so much about two tier as out and out lying, ie: "No we have no vacancies"-tanslation, "we don't want any visible minorities in here". This is of course illegal and there are legal chanels to challenge this. It just doesn't seem there is much illegal in India.

Edited by Snowcrab, 16 September 2006 - 12:55 AM.


#62 praks

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Posted 16 September 2006 - 12:56 AM

View PostSnowcrab, on Sep 16 2006, 12:45 AM, said:

Do get pissed off when hotel prices are cranked just because I look like a mark though. There is really nowhere it would be safe for an unaccompanied woman to just pitch a tent by the side of a boulevard or any municipal camping spaces available for visitor use so shelter is not optional, it is a necessity.

I can appreciate that, but it may surprise you to know that in many places in India, prices are cranked if you say you are from Mumbai.

#63 Snowcrab

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Posted 16 September 2006 - 12:59 AM

Well, it's a lot easier to hide being from Mumbai than from Canada.

#64 praks

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Posted 16 September 2006 - 02:33 AM

View PostSnowcrab, on Sep 16 2006, 12:59 AM, said:

Well, it's a lot easier to hide being from Mumbai than from Canada.

No doubt, but discrimination exists nevertheless.