{"id":9440,"date":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/21\/an-etiquette-guide-to-tourists-in-india\/"},"modified":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","slug":"an-etiquette-guide-to-tourists-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/21\/an-etiquette-guide-to-tourists-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"An Etiquette Guide To Tourists in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/Print\/589220.aspx\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, August 22, 2010: A new website set up by the Common-wealth Games Travel Office, incredibleairindiapackages.org, provides social cues to foreigners planning to visit India during the Games.<\/p>\n<p>A kiss on the cheek while greeting a female acquaintance is &#8220;just not done&#8221; when you are in India. Tourists should, however, discuss politics. Most Indians love to talk politics and &#8216;have an opinion on which they will not mind being contradicted&#8217;. But equally, visitors should avoid discussing religion.<\/p>\n<p>Other tips on etiquette, the kind of food available, shopping and even toilets can also be found.<\/p>\n<p>If tourists are unsure about the quality of food the website suggests they &#8216;do not eat salads and stick to vegetarian food. If shopping from a roadside stall, one should &#8220;be prepared to bargain. Start by offering half the price and settle for 60 per cent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindustantimes.com INDIA, August 22, 2010: A new website set up by the Common-wealth Games Travel Office, incredibleairindiapackages.org, provides social,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}