TALLINN- According to a former
tour guide in Tallinn,
a commission fee of up to 20 percent exists for bringing tourists into shops
around town.
There are days when a guide is arranging city tours for
several 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 that
way.
Another guide said that she received 10 percent from the tourist
groups purchase sum. Depending on the day it could have been from EEK 100 to
EEK 1,000 a day, she said.
Laura Taul, the chairman of the Tallinn Guide Association , claimed
that guides do not violate the law by accepting the money from shops but
the association considers such action unethical.
