Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia

Public Mural Art Installation (PMAI) is normally planned and executed in the urban open space and accessible to the public for tourism activities. In recent years, public mural art installation (PMAI) has increasingly expanded in Penang Georgetown Heritage District (PGHD) which enhance the local ide...

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Main Author: Mahmound, Elham Karimian
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/1/FRSB%202016%2010.pdf
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description Public Mural Art Installation (PMAI) is normally planned and executed in the urban open space and accessible to the public for tourism activities. In recent years, public mural art installation (PMAI) has increasingly expanded in Penang Georgetown Heritage District (PGHD) which enhance the local identity towards tourists. Despite the expansion, it seems that most tourists have difficulties in understanding the PMAI and this is due to its inefficient planning and design in the heritage district of Georgetown. There is an imperative need to ascertain to what extent has the PMAI facilitates the identity of PGHD by understanding the tourists’ perception and behaviours and during their engagement with PMAI in heritage district. Moreover, applying PMAI as modern design characteristics may not have a positive impact on the manner the PMAI enhance the place identity of PGHD. The mixed methodologies selected are a non-participant observation and distributed random survey questionnaires (SQ) amongst tourists in the PGAD. Subsequently, physical and statistical analysis SPSS were selected to analyse the collected data. The study demonstrates that the level of perception and satisfaction of PMAInin terms of enhancing the identity of the place amongst tourists in PGHD isnsatisfactory. As the result of the analysis, it is clear that most tourists believed applying PMAI as a modern installation in the heritage district of Georgetown has managed to increase local identity and its effectiveness can be further enhanced with the addition of the local socio-cultural characteristics. This study contributes to the improvement of current PMAI design qualities in PGHD to enhance the place identity. It will also assist in formulating appropriate policy and guidelines in constructing the PMAI in heritage districts globally.
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spelling upm-754252025-06-11T02:08:09Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/ Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia Mahmound, Elham Karimian Public Mural Art Installation (PMAI) is normally planned and executed in the urban open space and accessible to the public for tourism activities. In recent years, public mural art installation (PMAI) has increasingly expanded in Penang Georgetown Heritage District (PGHD) which enhance the local identity towards tourists. Despite the expansion, it seems that most tourists have difficulties in understanding the PMAI and this is due to its inefficient planning and design in the heritage district of Georgetown. There is an imperative need to ascertain to what extent has the PMAI facilitates the identity of PGHD by understanding the tourists’ perception and behaviours and during their engagement with PMAI in heritage district. Moreover, applying PMAI as modern design characteristics may not have a positive impact on the manner the PMAI enhance the place identity of PGHD. The mixed methodologies selected are a non-participant observation and distributed random survey questionnaires (SQ) amongst tourists in the PGAD. Subsequently, physical and statistical analysis SPSS were selected to analyse the collected data. The study demonstrates that the level of perception and satisfaction of PMAInin terms of enhancing the identity of the place amongst tourists in PGHD isnsatisfactory. As the result of the analysis, it is clear that most tourists believed applying PMAI as a modern installation in the heritage district of Georgetown has managed to increase local identity and its effectiveness can be further enhanced with the addition of the local socio-cultural characteristics. This study contributes to the improvement of current PMAI design qualities in PGHD to enhance the place identity. It will also assist in formulating appropriate policy and guidelines in constructing the PMAI in heritage districts globally. 2016-10 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/1/FRSB%202016%2010.pdf Mahmound, Elham Karimian (2016) Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. http://ethesis.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12791/ Public art - Malacca - Malaysia Public art - Pictorial works - Malaysia
spellingShingle Public art - Malacca - Malaysia
Public art - Pictorial works - Malaysia
Mahmound, Elham Karimian
Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia
title Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia
title_full Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia
title_fullStr Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia
title_short Tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in Georgetown Heritage District, Malaysia
title_sort tourist perception and behaviour towards public mural art installation in georgetown heritage district, malaysia
topic Public art - Malacca - Malaysia
Public art - Pictorial works - Malaysia
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75425/1/FRSB%202016%2010.pdf