A lot of places even in the US give discounts to locals. And locals often pay taxes that help support these places. So really it makes sense that locals get a discount, or tourist get a surcharge. However you wanna call it.
Ok, but if they were being even kind of accurate, the numbers aren’t akin to a discount. One is equivalent to about one quarter dollar, vs the other being the equivalent of nine dollars. That’s gouging, not a locals discount.
It’s an apples to oranges comparison, though, since in India there is a much lower local median income than tourist median income. In the US, tourists and locals are likely to have near parity in income. And it’s worth putting some perspective on it, that it’s US$9 to visit a stunning world famous jewel of India. If someone pays to travel all that way and is complaining about coughing up US$9 then I don’t know what to say.
A lot of places even in the US give discounts to locals. And locals often pay taxes that help support these places. So really it makes sense that locals get a discount, or tourist get a surcharge. However you wanna call it.
Ok, but if they were being even kind of accurate, the numbers aren’t akin to a discount. One is equivalent to about one quarter dollar, vs the other being the equivalent of nine dollars. That’s gouging, not a locals discount.
It’s an apples to oranges comparison, though, since in India there is a much lower local median income than tourist median income. In the US, tourists and locals are likely to have near parity in income. And it’s worth putting some perspective on it, that it’s US$9 to visit a stunning world famous jewel of India. If someone pays to travel all that way and is complaining about coughing up US$9 then I don’t know what to say.