The experience of Kowloon City One Day Trip

Looking at the high rise buildings and the shabby old housings in the same street, you may have feelings that this scene is quite awkward. However, this is why it is so unique in our eyes. Seeing theKowloon Walled City Park and the newly- built private housing right next to it, you can easily feel the fusion of tradition and modern.This is  the oblivious spot – The Kowloon City. Seldom would tourists visit this place, but this special district has many character spots  waiting for us to explore.

Kowloon City district is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is a low density residential area. Most of the land is residential land use. Before this assignment, our impression to this district was simply an old inner district, and the Kai Tak airport was established there. It was not really a special worth visiting place in Hong Kong. Unlike the common tourist spots, it does not have any exciting amusements park or beautiful sceneries. It would be a very challenging task for us to plan a one day trip for tourists.

However, when we search over the Internet, we found that Kowloon city is not as dull as we thought. Contradictory, it was full of excitment indeed. The Kowloon City is a place with historical sites, such as Kowloon Walled City Park and Sung Wong Toi Park; large shopping malls, such as Kowloon City Plaza and Festival Walk and an array of cuisines from countries all around the globe, especially the East-Asian Food e.g. Thai Food, Islam food and  Canton food etc.  The multi-ethnic dinning culture with special cuisine like Islam Food polishes Hong Kong’s Food Paradise reputation. All these are special enough for us to promote this place.

The most impressed stop we've visited in Kowloon City is the Kowloon Walled City Park. What makes it so special is that it fully articulates the old Hong Kong style of living.The Kowloon Walled City Park brings people back to the days in the twentieth century, showing the time where the place was densely populated with chaotic and ungoverned settlements. We've never thought of this style of living before as we all live in modern Hong Kong nowadays. This really open our eyes as we are able to know more about the history of Hong Kong.

This project is the first step for us to know more about this district and also making efforts in promoting this place to forighn visitors. Maybe Kowloon City is yet to be competitive enough to become  the mainstream tourist haunt, but we believe that sooner or later, the place would be one of the most popular spots in Hong Kong as it has its own special culture and historical value.We want to share these to everyone who are interested. On top of that, we would like to promote this district to foreigners in order to let more people know about this place.

As for the challenges we faced, first of all, in this project we have to plan a one day trip. Planning a trip is much more difficult than we thought. This is because not only do we have to select places to visit among all the attractions, we also have to control the time we are spending in each destination. Furthermore, we have to do a lot of searching of information about the tourist spots before we actually go on a pre-trip. During the trip, we have to concern about the transportation, the dinning places and  the cost etc. These are all very complex processes. But it is indeed a fruitful and rewardable experience for us to learn about how tourism industry works in reality. Moreover, we enjoyed the whole pre- trip as we can try the cuisines and have some fun taking pictures and videos there.

From what we can see now, we can tell that in the future, Kowloon City will continue on its transformation. The old Kai Tak airport will be transformed into a new integrated development are. It is going to include Cruise Terminal, residential and commercial areas. Seeing potential in this oblivious place right now, we believe that the Kowloon City would soon be developed into a much more attractive spot in the near future.