By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
In yesterday's SOM my friend and fellow writer N.K.A. Ballal with his long experience in the tourism industry has very graphically described how unsuspecting tourists are systematically fleeced all over the country by a close knit coterie of unethical hotels, business establishments and guides who are guided only by sheer greed. Although he says that this trend was hitherto non-existent in our city I would like to say that it did exist in some sleazy bylanes but it was certainly not as rampant and out-in-the-open as it is now. And, mind you, this is not completely an Indian phenomenon.
