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Tipping private guides and drivers--yet another query

We have hired a private pro guide plus a driver for roughly every other day here across China. They'll be different folks each time. The travel agency that we used back in America to set up this whole trip is suggesting that we tip the guides $40-50... ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Fri, Oct 19 2007

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