Sunday, August 18, 2013

Foreign tourists hire bodyguards on visit to India...

After the recent spate of horrific, widely reported sexual crimes — from the Nirbhaya case in December last year to the rape of a Swiss tourist in March — foreign travellers are becoming rather incredulous about Incredible India. Visitors are now coming armed not just with point-and-shoot cameras, but also bodyguards trained to do the same.

The last time 44-year-old Canadian-Indian Shaleni Nigam visited India was in 2008. She was confident then of travelling alone to visit her family in Kanpur and travelling on trains across the country.

"But the gang rape in Delhi was terrifying and a couple of months ago, I read about the British tourist who had to jump out of her hotel window because the hotel manager was harassing her. That got me thinking of hiring a bodyguard for my trip this year," says Nigam, who is looking for a female bodyguard.

Anuraag Singh, COO of security operations at New Delhi-based Secura Security Solutions, says that tourists are nervous enough to cough up up to Rs 9,000 a day plus expenses for the services of an English-speaking licensed-to-shoot bodyguard. Full story...

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