{"id":17929,"date":"2014-04-21T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-tipping-the-scale-who-would-have-thought\/"},"modified":"2014-04-21T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T00:07:00","slug":"struth-tipping-the-scale-who-would-have-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/04\/struth-tipping-the-scale-who-would-have-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Tipping the scale &#8211; who would have thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-mhqqNCGN_BI\/U1RhRIOjDxI\/AAAAAAAAl70\/FDT_S_CphUY\/s1600\/Tipping.%2Bdavid%2Bmcguffin%2Beurope%2Bgroup%2Btours-752210.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-mhqqNCGN_BI\/U1RhRIOjDxI\/AAAAAAAAl70\/FDT_S_CphUY\/s320\/Tipping.%2Bdavid%2Bmcguffin%2Beurope%2Bgroup%2Btours-752210.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div lang=\"EN-AU\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that while the vast majority of Australians will tell you they&#8217;ve an aversion to the concept of tipping, a survey just undertaken by MasterCard has found that 46% of us claim that we are, in fact, regular tippers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>MasterCard surveyed 7,932 people aged between 18 and 64 years across fourteen countries in Asia and the Pacific, and found the worst tippers to be the Japanese \u2013 just 4% saying they leave a tip.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale, 84% of Thais said they always left one, 78% of Indians and 73% of Philippinos.\u00a0 <u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>With 46% of Australians saying they leave a tip, we&#8217;re well in front of our New Zealand cousins \u2013 over there, just 12% tip regularly, while in Myanmar 42% do so, 33% in Indonesia, 31% in Malaysia, 20% in both Singapore and Vietnam, 10% in South Korea and 12% in Taiwan.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>And overall those aged over 45 were generally quicker to offer a tip than those between 18 and 29, with men more regularly opening the wallet than women.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that while the vast majority of Australians will tell you they&#8217;ve an aversion to the concept of tipping, a survey just undertaken by MasterCard has found that 46% of us claim that we are, in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}