SM 4140 Graduation Thesis Ho Tze Ki, kiki 50695667 Adviser: Linda Lai Performance.
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BackgroundIn Hong Kong one day tour,
• the travel agencies provide well-planned schedule and arrangement for the tourists to follow, like transportation, meal, places to visit, activities, e.t.c.
• Tour guide is the one who tell the stories, histories and information about the scenic spots.
• As one of the participants, tourists follow what they provide for them but lacks of activeness in deciding what to do in the tour.
• It seems that both the travel agencies and tour guide flamed what should we do and know in the tour. There is no doubt that this state may happen in our life but is it absolutely all be that? Will there be any alternative? Some questions are raised.
Under this kind of tour, • what characters are those participants playing? • what will they perform? • How does it affect the tour and the participant’s
experience?• Are there any characters exit?
Research method
1) Field Study
4 Hong Kong 1 day tours main focus
X times to inquiry information in travel agencies
2) Textual analysis in introduction leaflets
Visited placesLocation 1 2 3 4
Eastern of Hong Kong 大學站 馬料水海域 海下灣 西貢 印塘海岸公園 荔枝 鴨洲 馬料水碼頭
黃埔碼頭 大嶼山竹高灣消防局 灣仔碼頭滅火輪 黃埔碼頭
尖沙咀 大澳 寶蓮寺 天壇大佛 心經簡林 昂坪 360
Hong KongIslandKowloon tong 金紫荊 山頂 香港仔 淺水灣 赤柱 星光大道
Tour Guide1 2 3 4
Tour Guide PeggyMiddle-aged woman
Social worker?Firemen?Tourists?
One literMiddle-aged man
?(no name)Middle-aged woman
What did they do?
1) Gather2) Explanatio
n3) Moderate
the atmosphere
PeggySocial workerTourists
One liter ?(no name)
Peggy FiremenTourists
One liter Tourists
?(no name)Tourists
Peggy FiremenTouristsSocial worker
One liter Tourists
?(no name)Tourists
Findings: 1) There is more than one tour guide in a tour 2) The roles are exchangeable
Tour Guide1 2 3 4
What did they say?
•Myth(natural environment)•side-street news •Official information(natural environment)•Advisement
•Official information(fire station)•Personal feeling and experience
•Official information(Hong Kong development and constructions)•Myth(natural environment)
•Official information(estate)
Who say? PeggyTourists?
FiremenTourists
One literTourists
?(no name)Tourists
Where? In the boat(passing through)
In the station and ship
In the busOn location
In the bus
Tour Guide
Findings
1) Questioning the role of tour guide again
2) Besides tour 2, all the guide don’t say any personal feeling about the place.
First hand < > Third hand
3) The role of the speaker and the place that we visit will affect the stories, information, stories we hear in the tour .
Tourists1 2 3 4
Total no. :groups :Background :
2169 from hk12 from china
317All live in the same district10 children
31726 from hk5 from china
26712 from hk2 from china12 from Singapore
Reasons of joining
1)Hail non-resident friends
1)Holiday(want to see the
real things)2)Study(as a anti-fire
ambassador)3)Have the sameExperience b4(want to revise the
experience)
1)Price is reasonable2)Go with family3)well-planned4)Hail non-resident friends 5)revisit
1)Price is reasonable2)Kill time3)Travel4)Revisit5)Free of charge
TouristsRelationship between I and the others
No •Go with my friend •No interactionBut polite in lunch(eat in the same table)
Not bad•Go with my father •I actively talk and smile with the others•All come from the some district(some may live near by more talking topics)
Not bad•Go with my father•I actively talk and smile with the others•but I show my purpose this time•some of them are act unnatural•Young people are easy to communicate with
Good•Go by myself•People are curious about me•They treat me as a little girl•I actively talk and smile with the others•I share some candies with them
Tourists
Findings:1) Although there are different reasons to
come, the tours intentionally have expectation on the tour fulfill their desires and want
2) the no. of joined people and the member in each groups affect a lot in the tour
If everyone join alone, the situation will totally different
TouristsWhat did they do in the tour?• Activities that assigned in the leaflet/not assigned• Taking-photo ***• Transportation ***• Listening /not ***• Eating ***• Taking ***
*** - tourists may do 2-3 activities at the same time - all of them go with family or friends, they have other role and will do related actions at the same time, like parent,
son, lovers…… - Taking seem assessable in any activities - tourists may not listen to tour guide’s saying - some unassigned visiting place will appear subtly --> toilet
• Participants as actors• Tour as fiction• what the actors performance and what will
happen in the tour as rituals that repeated in many 1 day tours
• But under this routine, some alternatives exist • If it have alternatives, how do we artiacular
them? How do it affect the tour, the participant's role and their experience?
Final work
In response to this finding and question,• I will create tours that refers to my
research findings • To open up more possibilities and
discussion about the role of participants
and their experience • The tours are continue performance,
Prototype
• I am still thinking but have some ideas
• If I have one more days, I may finish this part
• Remarks:
Places, formats, what the participants do in tour………….