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30. Weekly program on the board 
31. Sandwich man 

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Contrary to the weekly, daily program displayed on the board is the most 
popular among the animators. Each day the activities that are available to the 
tourists are written on the board. 69,3% adore this way of announcing the 
activities. Flyers are not popular way of displaying the program, nevertheless 
there is a good percentage of them who do it in this manner.
Presentation on the welcome meeting is one of the ways of informing the guest 
about the activities which will take part in that hotel. The attitudes towards this 
are different so this is in the middle of the scale. 
Daily routine is a great way of communicating with a guest and although it is 
not very popular among animators it is very important to have a direct contact 
with the guest. Direct contact is always the best way to promote the activities 
and the animation program.
Announcing the activities few days in advance is done mostly as seen in the 
picture 31. Until now it is not the most popular way of informing the guests 
among the animators. Contrary, announcing the activities via mic is much more 
acceptable to the animators. Microphone holds a special place in the evening 
activities. On that occasion the current activities are announced especially those 
that are of great significance to the hotel. It is on second place of the chart 13.
The announcement of the activities is an important part of a successful 
animation. If we look at the results of the research we see that most of animators 
prefer the activities to be announced via board, either daily or weekly option 
(chart 12). Over 80% (when the columns marked with red are added up) like the 
daily alternative while 75% like the weekly one (chart 11). However the 
microphone is also very popular among the animators. Presentation on the 
welcome meeting is on 4th place and it leaves a good impression on the newly 
arrived guests. Daily routine i.e. the way where the animators visit the guests 
and inform them what is interesting on that particular day is an inevitable piece 
of announcing the activities. The announcement via written material is not very 
effective as the guests are not very keen to read on vacation. The last stance is 
announcing the activities few days in advance which is very good in the 
marketing point of view. 
The model of animation that we discussed in this chapter is a little bit different 
than the programs in Croatia. Evening programs of animation that we divided 
are contact nights (beauty contest for men and women, we choose the best 
couple, war of the sexes, and bet, kermes, golden gate, karaoke...), programs 
that are watched (show performances, musicles, cabaret shows) and the shows 
(spectacles – like the Disney show). Cetinski (group of authors 1998. p.225.) 
divides this into three categories. 

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The category of fun programs is consisted of: 
1.
A model of fun programs in narrow sense: 
A) Entertainment DIY contact programs: beauty contests, best grimace 
contest, best dance couple contest, costume ball, pajama party, beer party. 
B) Programs that are bought: dance shows, music concert, folklore... 
2. Fun games and other activities: best clothing creation, fast food eating, the 
best funny dance couple, rope skipping, women boxing... 
3. Musical programs which entail doing the activities like the beauty contest 
model. 
Most of the programs are similar except musicales and Disney’s fairytales. 
Rope skipping and inflating the balloons are represented as separate programs 
while in our case it would fall into the game war of the sexes or some other 
contact evening. In our opinion, we would replace the activity the best grimace 
with the best hairstyle activity and the topless show we would it leave to the 
professional fashion agencies. 

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