SM 4140 Graduation Thesis

Ho Tze Ki, kiki

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Adviser: Linda Lai

Performance

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

Field study• 4 HK 1 day tours

1) 香港東面觀賞 瑚一日遊 2) 昂平 360 + 大澳一日遊

4) 香港島風情遊3) 竹高灣消防君及灣仔碼頭滅火輪

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………….

Evaluation

• The first draft of the tour should be finish with in the Easter hoilday

• The first tour should be hold on the end of March

• Big struggles:1) Where should I visit?2) What is relationship between the

visiting place and participants?