Hidden powers : a foucauldian analysis of power relations between tour guides and tourists.

• Main Author: Loh, Rachel Yu Ting.
• Other Authors: Lim Khek Gee, Francis
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35267
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The aim of this paper is to investigate the omnipresence of power in the seemingly nonpolitical setting namely on the HiPPO bus of Singapore DuckTours, and to account for the power that tourists and tour guides hold. The power relationships between tourists and tour guides through the construction o...