Most regular board members will be up on the scam because, well they read the forum. It the newbie holiday makers who are getting robbed, I hate that but what what I hate more is that this money is going to these scum. After all, a cut will filter up to `mr big` which will allow him to buy more influence, more immunity, more capital to launch yet more protection rackets ect.
Will anything change? Maybe and outraged tourist will stand up for his perceived rights and get stabbed in the process, causing sufficient bad publicity to call a halt (probably only for a short while)?
Tackling this would be an ideal role for the volunteer tourist `police` - who also claim to be tourist advice workers depending on which paragraph of the post you read.
They could distribute leaflets, stand near the touts and warn tourists who look like they are about to be duped, in other words give good tourist advice.
Will it happen?
What do you think?