The Transformation of a Tourist to a Traveler

The movie "A Room with a View" based on the novel of E.M Forster takes place in Italy and England.  The movie is about a young girl named Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin/chaperone Charlotte Barlette, on their first visit to Florence, Italy.  During their visit, they had the opportunity to meet Mr. Emerson and his son George Emerson, the sisters, Misses Alans, and Miss Lavish, the novelist with a sense of adventure. 
The tourist vs. traveler concept represented in Jamaica Kincaid's, A Small Place, also takes part in this movie. The different characters represent different types of tourist and travelers.  

The main character, Lucy along with her cousin Charlotte represents for instance the concept of tourist, during their first visit to Florence.  The first thing that Charlotte says when they are in their hotel room is: "This is not what we were led to expect".  This quote represents the expectation of the tourist first experience in a new place.  As in Kincaid’s essays, the tourist did not have any idea what to expect, they did not care.  Both, Lucy and Charlotte were upset because they did not have a proper view in their room, and this represents the superficiality of the tourist.  In contrast to Mr. Emerson and his son George Emerson, who were experienced travelers, were they did not mind to switch rooms with them.  Mr. Emerson says: "I don't care to see what's outside; my vision is within".  

Lucy Honeychurch gets transformed in the movie from a tourist to a travel.  On her first car ride in Florence, driven by an Italian, Mr. Beebs, he asks Lucy “So, Miss Honeychurch, you're traveling? As a student of art? And she responded “I'm a tourist".  He then responded: "We residents sometimes pity you poor tourist not a little".  This quote is similar to the argument in Kincaid's essays, especially when she is describing the tourist first car ride in Antigua, were they are seeing new things that they do not understand.  

Lucy experiences a transformation from tourist to traveler.  Miss Lavish, who is also a traveler herself, states that Lucy is : " The young English girl transformed by Italy" .    Lucy gets transformed from a tourist to a traveler, when she embraces her own internal journey, which in this case is defined by love. One cannot be a traveler without being a tourist first.

Jamaica Kincaid maybe would have responded to the British women in a similar way as in her essays.  But maybe, Kincaid could understand that the expectation of a tourist is to see places, things in the expedited fashion, and have a glimpse of something unknown.  Thus, only from the inner experience the tourist can be transformed to a traveler.