Amy Blankenship wrote:
how do you tell Jean Dupont of Paris from Jean DuPont of Dijon?

A more pertinent question might be, how do you know that Jean Dupont/US
passport number x/French is not the same person as Jean Dupont/EU
passport number y/French? To a hotelier trying their best to determine
how many individuals pass through their doors, counting individual
passports is probably good enough.

The canny hotelier may look the client straight in the eye, ask them if
they've stayed there before and monitor their body language. The US
immigration services, on the other hand, may be looking into a person's
eye to perform a retina scan... As I say, it comes down to the required
level of trust.

Jamie.

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