Be wary of getting invovled with anyone who works at those areas in different countries---Tourism and resort industy

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Apr 6, 2009 at 12:31

Dear Vivi,

First, let me just say that I am very sorry this had to happen to you. As trite as this may sound, it's happened to people many times and will keep happening simply because the scams and the lies work.

The reality is that when you talk about countries in the developing world, meaning Second and Third World countries, many of the people there employed in the tourism industry are given incentive, paid or threatened to keep their mouths shut about how they really feel about the tourists.

I actually work in the tourism industry right now as a side job. Most of the people I work with are blue-collar workers from rural areas who have to work hard to make ends meet. Others are just students like myself. Nothing ticks them off more than when a bunch of global elitist show up and act rude, like the red carpet should be rolled out for them. These are the types of folks that we and those employees over in places like Egypt deal with on a daily basis. So, just because they are nice to you does not mean they will make great life partners; they are simply doing their jobs in a service industry, it's as simple as that.

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