阿信 ahshun
阿信 ahshun

香港人、設計師、畫畫人、愛城市漫遊、城市觀察、愛吃、愛玩、愛電影

To consume "tagged" communities?

There are government-licensed travel agencies and social enterprises. They run commercial fee-based tour groups and bring group members to spend. When you visit some "labeled" communities, living places and religions, what are you consuming? ? Does this help to understand the state of the deep society, or does it make these "labels" more prominent?


Generally speaking, a social enterprise is a business whose purpose is to achieve a specific social purpose, such as providing socially needed services (such as elderly support services) or products, creating employment and training opportunities for disadvantaged groups, protecting the environment, Use the profits earned by itself to finance other social services under its jurisdiction. The profits of social enterprises are mainly used for reinvestment in their own business to achieve a given social purpose. In other words, the basic goal of a social enterprise is to achieve its social purpose, not to maximize profits for distribution to shareholders.

Hong Kong's tourism industry is one of the four pillar industries of Hong Kong's economy and an important source of tax revenue for the Hong Kong government. Also known as the "smoke-free industry", its purpose is to promote the social economy.

If a social enterprise is running a one-day local tour, it will show you local alternative tours such as LGBTQ, caged houses, gentrification areas (but not the youthful districts full of shops and coffee shops), ethnic minorities and religions. , you may find it very exciting and interesting when you hear it. They even claim that the purpose is to make group members know the other side or the dark side of Hong Kong, but they are government-licensed travel agencies and social enterprises, and they run commercial fee-based tours. When you take group members to consume, when you visit some "labeled" communities, residences and religions, what are you consuming? Does this help to understand the state of the deep society, or does it make these "labels" more prominent?

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