Sentences with phrase «from local taxi drivers»

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GrabTaxi, however, functions as a third - party app for booking taxi rides, allowing riders to connect with taxi drivers from various companies while operating within local taxi regulations.

While on our honeymoon in the Bahamas we wanted to get a taste for the local flavor and everyone we asked — from taxi drivers...

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.

Uber has long met with resistance from authorities and local taxi drivers in Europe.