Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak

Domestic tourism would help to facilitate maximum capacity of the international tourism. Thus, main objective of this paper is to understand Malaysian community’s attitude and behavior towards the domestic tourism. It is important to comprehend what they consider important in making choice decision...

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Main Authors: Norazirah, Ayob, Salbiah, Edman
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2006
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18666/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18666/13/DEMAND%20FOR%20DOMESTIC.pdf
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Salbiah, Edman
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description Domestic tourism would help to facilitate maximum capacity of the international tourism. Thus, main objective of this paper is to understand Malaysian community’s attitude and behavior towards the domestic tourism. It is important to comprehend what they consider important in making choice decisions one alternative over another, consequently the conception might be very useful especially in designing and implementing effective marketing programs. In addition, this study also described the components of domestic tourism in Malaysia, its volume, value and profile, and mapping its characteristics as a functional basis for domestic tourism’s planning and management. Collectively, the residents of Kuching, Sarawak have positive attitude towards traveling and having holiday domestically. 87.2% were found engaged in domestic tourism with at least one holiday trip in 2004. Average number of trips made by domestic tourists from Kuching within the boundary of Malaysia in year of 2004 was 2.94 trips.
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spelling unimas-186662022-07-06T08:06:48Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18666/ Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak Norazirah, Ayob Salbiah, Edman HB Economic Theory Domestic tourism would help to facilitate maximum capacity of the international tourism. Thus, main objective of this paper is to understand Malaysian community’s attitude and behavior towards the domestic tourism. It is important to comprehend what they consider important in making choice decisions one alternative over another, consequently the conception might be very useful especially in designing and implementing effective marketing programs. In addition, this study also described the components of domestic tourism in Malaysia, its volume, value and profile, and mapping its characteristics as a functional basis for domestic tourism’s planning and management. Collectively, the residents of Kuching, Sarawak have positive attitude towards traveling and having holiday domestically. 87.2% were found engaged in domestic tourism with at least one holiday trip in 2004. Average number of trips made by domestic tourists from Kuching within the boundary of Malaysia in year of 2004 was 2.94 trips. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2006 Working Paper PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18666/13/DEMAND%20FOR%20DOMESTIC.pdf Norazirah, Ayob and Salbiah, Edman (2006) Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak. [Working Paper] http://www.academia.edu/27515342/DEMAND_FOR_DOMESTIC_TOURISM_MARKET_FROM_KUCHING_SARAWAK
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
Norazirah, Ayob
Salbiah, Edman
Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak
title Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak
title_full Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak
title_fullStr Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak
title_full_unstemmed Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak
title_short Demand For Domestic Tourism: Market From Kuching, Sarawak
title_sort demand for domestic tourism: market from kuching, sarawak
topic HB Economic Theory
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18666/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18666/13/DEMAND%20FOR%20DOMESTIC.pdf