This article explores the staging of the Hop On–Hop Off buses, bus-tour and actual embodied performances enacted by tourists on the move. We draw on a performance-inspired terminology to explore the co-production of mundane tourist experiences. Following calls for not making moral judgements or belittling sightseeing tourists and understanding the mundane dimensions of tourist practice, we conduct empathetic research with and about them. We also draw on performance metaphors to highlight the staged and scripted nature of these tours. However, to disavow assumptions that sightseeing is a uniform, fully choreographed practice, we identify different practices and motives within an otherwise much-scripted practice. We show that Hop On–Hop Off practices potentially undermine distinctions within tourism theory between (1) individual tourism and mass tourism, (2) self-directed active mobility (such as walking) and designed passive mobility (such as the sightseeing bus), (3) bubbles and local neighbourhoods and (4) gazing and glancing.

本文探讨了随上随下巴士的演出，旅游中的巴士表演和实际表演。我们使用以性能为灵感的术语来探索平凡的游客体验的联合制作。在呼吁不要做出道德判断或对观光游客轻描淡写并理解旅游实践的平凡层面之后，我们进行了善解人意的活动与他们一起研究。我们还使用表演隐喻来突出这些巡演的阶段性和脚本性。但是，为了否认观光是一种统一的，完全编排的练习的假设，我们在另一种写成脚本的练习中确定了不同的练习和动机。我们证明，随上随下的做法有可能破坏旅游理论之间的区别：（1）个人旅游和大众旅游；（2）自我主导的主动出行（例如步行）和设计的被动出行（例如观光巴士）， （3）气泡和当地社区，以及（4）凝视和瞥了一眼。