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Stories about travel commissions. Locals that depend on travel tourist commissions. "I know a great place, let me show you," kind of thing.

Article: First Perfume, Then the Pyramids - Travel Stories from Cairo, Egypt

Strong arm haggling in a "laissez-faire world", but the taxi cab man will go out of his and your way for a commission. One of the many stories travelers fall prey to. All this while on the way to the Sound and Light Show.