Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists.
The aim of this paper is to investigate the tipping practices of tour guides by tourists in Singapore and how this affects the interactions between tour guides and tourists. Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, this paper aim to study how tour guides in Singapore view their conception of sel...
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| author | Sim, Clarice Wei Fang. |
| author2 | Lim Khek Gee, Francis |
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| description | The aim of this paper is to investigate the tipping practices of tour guides by tourists in Singapore and how this affects the interactions between tour guides and tourists. Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, this paper aim to study how tour guides in Singapore view their conception of self and how they make use of the conception of self and others to place them in a more advantage position to interact with the tourists. It shows how tour guides engage in strategies of impression management, emotional labour and by changing their tour guiding style according to nationalities of the tourists to elicit the desired (memorable and worthwhile) experience which tourists seek when they go on a guided tour so as to gain more tips from tourists at the end of the guided tours. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/482982019-12-10T11:52:44Z Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. Sim, Clarice Wei Fang. Lim Khek Gee, Francis School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences The aim of this paper is to investigate the tipping practices of tour guides by tourists in Singapore and how this affects the interactions between tour guides and tourists. Using a symbolic interactionist perspective, this paper aim to study how tour guides in Singapore view their conception of self and how they make use of the conception of self and others to place them in a more advantage position to interact with the tourists. It shows how tour guides engage in strategies of impression management, emotional labour and by changing their tour guiding style according to nationalities of the tourists to elicit the desired (memorable and worthwhile) experience which tourists seek when they go on a guided tour so as to gain more tips from tourists at the end of the guided tours. Bachelor of Arts 2012-04-03T09:08:41Z 2012-04-03T09:08:41Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48298 en Nanyang Technological University 26 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Sim, Clarice Wei Fang. Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. |
| title | Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. |
| title_full | Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. |
| title_fullStr | Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. |
| title_short | Tipping practices : interaction between tour guides and tourists. |
| title_sort | tipping practices interaction between tour guides and tourists |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48298 |
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