New Book of India Travel Scams is released.


This is a practical book about understanding Indian culture and travel scams in India and is based on real life experiences.

This book will help you to avoid embarrassing mistakes and prepare you to feel confident in unfamiliar situations.

Content in this book includes Indian social customs, their perception about Western women, their religion, what motivates them, travel scams targeted at Western tourists and of course what not to discuss with Indians, etc.

This book is primarily for westerners who are interested to know more about Indian culture and want to avoid various travel scams which are targeted at innocent western tourists in India.

The author was born and brought up in India and lived there for about 35 years. He has been interviewed by various TV channels and his views and articles appear regularly in the magazines and newspapers in India and the UK.


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Kerala the land of rivers in the South West corner of Indian popularly advertised as God's Own Country in various Indian govt advertisement also witnessed this year molesting of the swedish girl on new year eve 2008.

Local people in kochi (Kerala) molested a Swedish tourist's 15-year-old daughter at Fort Kochi.

Though no complaint was lodged by the Swedish family, the local police has registered a suo moto report
 
The father of the girl was shocked by the incident and said that he would now have to think twice before bringing
 his children to India.

There were more than 2,000 police personnel to ensure that everything was in order,still the local people
have shown the audacity to molest swedish girl in front of everybody.

 

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While no of foreign tourist are increasing in India like never before and govt and business organization associated with tourism are are enjoying the success but nothing has much has been done for the safety of tourist in India.

Not only are the various touts who are looking for cheating foreign tourist in the various tourist places in India but
even govt approved agencies are also not far behind.

Mr Simon Wynn’s was duped by government-approved tour operators. “We just didn't anticipate somebody trying to rip us off,” said Wynn.The nightmare for Simon began at the New Delhi Railway station, where he arrived to board a train to Agra.

One gentleman who appeared to be an official wearing a badge, gave him very sound advice about usually late train in India saying that it was running late or might be cancelled and that he should get in a taxi and go over to Old Delhi Railway Station  where they would pick up a later train and on the way they can pop into a government ticket office to get his tickets changed.

The agency involved is in Connaught Place - Exotic Adventure Tours.
The agency has been a listed tour operator with the Ministry of Tourism for 12 years now  and its name features in the list of approved tour operators on the ministry's website.

At the agency, valid rail passes worth Rs 30,000 were cancelled and Simon was given a taxi for four days for over Rs 60,000.

If this is the way india tour agncy and tout in India  keep working and govt would not take any stern action,
 time is not far away when incredible india would be known as cheating India and that tourist would decide to switch to some  other safe destination.

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