TALLINN- According to a formertour guide in Tallinn,a commission fee of up to 20 percent exists for bringing tourists into shopsaround town.
There are days when a guide is arranging city tours forseveral groups and the fee can be up to EEK 10,000 a day.
She claims that the majority of souvenir shops in TallinnOldTown are operating thatway.
Another guide said that she received 10 percent from the touristgroups purchase sum. Depending on the day it could have been from EEK 100 toEEK 1,000 a day, she said.
Laura Taul, the chairman of the Tallinn Guide Association , claimedthat guides do not violate the law by accepting the money from shops butthe association considers such action unethical.
