Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia
Agro-tourism is a tool that has been widely used around the world for the purpose of intensifying the socio-economic aspects of the local community. Malaysia is supportive of this tool. The main objective of this paper is to unveil the potential socio-economic benefits that can be offered by the agr...
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| author | Hamzah, Azimi M. Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Bahaman D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence Tiraiyaei, Neda Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Uli, Jegak |
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| description | Agro-tourism is a tool that has been widely used around the world for the purpose of intensifying the socio-economic aspects of the local community. Malaysia is supportive of this tool. The main objective of this paper is to unveil the potential socio-economic benefits that can be offered by the agro-tourism activities to progressive fishing communities or locally known as Desa Wawasan Nelayan1 community in Malaysia. Data were gathered through document analyses. The qualitative studies concluded that agro-tourism can be the impetus for sustainable development of Desa Wawasan Nelayan community.The benefits include enhancing their social empowerment system, strengthening their social ties and developing their social skills and relationships, increasing the income of local community, diversifying and intensifying the economic activities, providing job opportunities and alleviation of poverty. Thus, agro-tourism has the potential to raise the consciousness of the selected community regarding sustainable development. |
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| spelling | upm-536262018-10-09T04:33:06Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53626/ Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia Hamzah, Azimi M. Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Bahaman D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence Tiraiyaei, Neda Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Uli, Jegak Agro-tourism is a tool that has been widely used around the world for the purpose of intensifying the socio-economic aspects of the local community. Malaysia is supportive of this tool. The main objective of this paper is to unveil the potential socio-economic benefits that can be offered by the agro-tourism activities to progressive fishing communities or locally known as Desa Wawasan Nelayan1 community in Malaysia. Data were gathered through document analyses. The qualitative studies concluded that agro-tourism can be the impetus for sustainable development of Desa Wawasan Nelayan community.The benefits include enhancing their social empowerment system, strengthening their social ties and developing their social skills and relationships, increasing the income of local community, diversifying and intensifying the economic activities, providing job opportunities and alleviation of poverty. Thus, agro-tourism has the potential to raise the consciousness of the selected community regarding sustainable development. Academic Journals 2016-08 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53626/1/Socio-economic%20impact%20potential%20of%20agro%20tourism%20.pdf Hamzah, Azimi and M. Yassin, Sulaiman and Abu Samah, Bahaman and D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence and Tiraiyaei, Neda and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Uli, Jegak (2016) Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 7 (32). pp. 4581-4588. ISSN 1991-637X http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR/article-abstract/1D61CF533865 10.5897/AJAR11.295 |
| spellingShingle | Hamzah, Azimi M. Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Bahaman D’Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence Tiraiyaei, Neda Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Uli, Jegak Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia |
| title | Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_full | Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_short | Socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on Desa Wawasan Nelayan community living in Peninsular Malaysia |
| title_sort | socio-economic impact potential of agro tourism activities on desa wawasan nelayan community living in peninsular malaysia |
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