During my trip to Taiwan, I experienced a wealth of surprising truths about the country. One aspect that struck me the most was the visible contrast of how foreign tourists were treated. It is considerably different from Thailand. One evening, my Taiwanese friends and I were at a ticket booth in the Taipei 101, waiting in line to purchase a ticket to the observatory on the 89th floor. I was in utter disbelief when I learned how much I needed to pay for the entrance fee. It wasn’t the fact that the price was too steep or anything, but that I was paying the exact same rate as Taiwanese people. As a Thai citizen, this was uncommon and staggering to learn that foreign tourists were treated equitably. This would be a totally different story in Thailand where a two-price system is widely prevalent in most tourist attractions; foreign visitors are overcharged for no apparent reason and this is usually done in quite tricky ways. Regardless of their ‘real’ intentions of such deed, dual pricing systems are discriminatory and cause great harm to the tourism industry as a whole.