How Do You Avoid A Tourist Trap In Hanoi, Vietnam?
The best way is to find a local friend to travel with you and help you to bargain with the local.
In case you don’t know anybody there, I’d like to recommend you to hire a reliable personal tour guide, who will help you tailoring your trip to suite your own taste, travel around the city with you and recommend good, authentic restaurant, and of course, help you to bargain with the local.
The average salary for people living in Hanoi Vietnam is approximately $58 a week with a GDP Per Capita income of $2,800. (CIA World Fact Book 2008). Tourism is a growing industry all throughout Vietnam and it is helping the economy. With that being said, a majority of the citizens working in Hanoi, Vietnam are working for themselves because after the Vietnam War a need for independence from the United States was a necessity and this was internalized by self profits. All goods in the streets of Hanoi are manufactured, operated, and produced in open market stores in very close proximity to one another with competition being a normal issue for workers. The need for money is relentless at times and tourists can pose an option for the people to make a considerable amount of money in just one scam. Probably more than they would make in an average week at their store or with their current line of business. One scam in particular involves multiple people in Vietnam but mainly women with their
