International Visitors' Perspectives on Geopark Sustainability in Langkawi Island, Malaysia
Conventional knowledge has that the tourism industry offers four types of benefits to its participants, namely leisure, education, entertainment and social networking. The tourism industry that can be broadly encapsulated into groups of active-based and passive-based tourism activities is a subje...
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2014.913677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2014.913677 |
| Summary: | Conventional knowledge has that the tourism industry offers four types of benefits to its
participants, namely leisure, education, entertainment and social networking. The tourism industry
that can be broadly encapsulated into groups of active-based and passive-based tourism activities
is a subject with a complex organization structure. More importantly, the tourism industry is more
than providing service to its participants. Its successfulness, reliability and validity are influenced
by scores of factors including visitors’ attitudes. This study aims to seek the visitors’ attitudes on
four tourism pillars (environment, economic, social and support systems) towards realizing
sustainable tourism development movement. The study area is KILIM Geopark which is located in
Langkawi Island, Malaysia. Assessment has been done to examine the relationships between
income, education background and the studied variables. Overall observation shows that although
many have been done, much more are needed to be implemented and achieved in order to
improve, enhance and strengthen KILIM’s existing development model. |
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