Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city
Tourism has been one of the largest contributors towards Malaysian GDP over the last three decades. In essence, Malaysia generated 1,795,500 employments in 2013 of which some 6.5% of the total employment was created in the tourism sector. The study deals with extraction of tourists’ expenditure in f...
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| description | Tourism has been one of the largest contributors towards Malaysian GDP over the last three decades. In essence, Malaysia generated 1,795,500 employments in 2013 of which some 6.5% of the total employment was created in the tourism sector. The study deals with extraction of tourists’ expenditure in five tourism sectors, accommodation, food and beverages, entertainment,
shopping and transportation that lead to direct community benefits. Diary record survey was conducted at three different groups of selected hotels based on stars ratings- 5 & 4 stars hotel; 3,2 & 1 stars hotel; and budget hotels. The total number of 1500 survey booklets was distributed, only 1000 surveys were collected. The preliminary findings suggested that tourists spent 64.7% of their expenditure for transportation and only 1.4% for shopping. On average, it was also found that actual expenditure was rated at RM172 against the budgeted amount of RM306 per day. 34.3% of tourists spent were channeled to the local community. This study identifies and assesses Melaka’s position as an affordable tourist destination and how tourism indeed contributed to the local population indeed positively promotes the sustenance of and directly benefits their economic well-being. |
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| spelling | iium-449732021-09-14T12:08:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/44973/ Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Ibrahim, Mansor H Social Sciences (General) Tourism has been one of the largest contributors towards Malaysian GDP over the last three decades. In essence, Malaysia generated 1,795,500 employments in 2013 of which some 6.5% of the total employment was created in the tourism sector. The study deals with extraction of tourists’ expenditure in five tourism sectors, accommodation, food and beverages, entertainment, shopping and transportation that lead to direct community benefits. Diary record survey was conducted at three different groups of selected hotels based on stars ratings- 5 & 4 stars hotel; 3,2 & 1 stars hotel; and budget hotels. The total number of 1500 survey booklets was distributed, only 1000 surveys were collected. The preliminary findings suggested that tourists spent 64.7% of their expenditure for transportation and only 1.4% for shopping. On average, it was also found that actual expenditure was rated at RM172 against the budgeted amount of RM306 per day. 34.3% of tourists spent were channeled to the local community. This study identifies and assesses Melaka’s position as an affordable tourist destination and how tourism indeed contributed to the local population indeed positively promotes the sustenance of and directly benefits their economic well-being. Elsevier 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/44973/1/mariana_-syakir_tourism_melaka__procedia_environmental_sciences.pdf Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir and Mohamed Osman, Mariana and Bachok, Syahriah and Ibrahim, Mansor (2015) Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 28. pp. 443-452. ISSN 1878-0296 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878029615002662 10.1016/j.proenv.2015.07.054 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Ibrahim, Mansor Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city |
| title | Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city |
| title_full | Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city |
| title_fullStr | Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city |
| title_short | Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city |
| title_sort | sustaining local community economy through tourism: melaka unesco world heritage city |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) |
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