Whereas recent years have seen an increase in the number of outbound tourists, how to pay tips becomes a big trouble for these tourists. In many countries, tips are paid to workers engaged in services sectors as a normal way of payment and have become a significant source of income for them. However, tips are not paid for all services. According to general rules, tips are paid to many of the attendants in restaurants who provides special services before guests as well as to those who clean rooms and are unknown by guests. If a porter in a restaurant, beamed with a smile, helps you to bring your luggage to your room, it definitely means more than ardour, and you should surely pay him tips

Paying tips also have some skills and general rules to pursue. The tips for room service attendants can be left in distinct places when you leave your room. But putting tips under pillows should be avoided because in that way attendants will assume that guests have forgotten to put away their money. If leaving tips on a table with a note saying “THANK YOU”, the guest will be popular with and respected by the attendant. And if paying tips directly to a porter, you'd better hand them to the porter in secret while shaking hands with him or her to show gratitude. The tips for tourist guides and drivers are collected from team members and then put into a envelope and delivered in public by a person representing the rest of the team to these tourists and drivers. Paying tips with coins to the eye should be avoided first of all, because in that way it will make the receiver embarrassed.

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