Spatial distributions of tourist In Langkawi Island
Langkawi Island is most competitive tourist destination in Malaysia. Tourism industry in Langkawi boost in late 1980’s after this destination declared as free-duty Island. From 2005 until 2011, tourism industry in Langkawi Island always recorded the positive growth and the next development will...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/35005/ http://eprints.usm.my/35005/1/HBP31.pdf |
| Summary: | Langkawi Island is most competitive tourist destination in Malaysia.
Tourism industry in Langkawi boost in late 1980’s after this destination
declared as free-duty Island. From 2005 until 2011, tourism industry in
Langkawi Island always recorded the positive growth and the next
development will continues in more intensive phase after Langkawi
Tourism Blueprint launched in 8 December 2011. With mission the
transform Langkawi as one among top 10 global islands and ecoadventure
destination in 2015, the process of development in Langkawi
will more focusing on product development, infrastructures and enablers.
Langkawi Island formed by 104 different and because of that, this
destination can offer many type of attractions started from its scenic
beauty to natural heritage until to the legends story. The understanding of
tourist distribution can provided the good information especially for
tourism market segmentations in Langkawi. With the understanding, the
location and allocation of tourism services and facilities can be optimized
and it also can use as a basic of forecasting future tourist behavior.
Generally, the knowledge about whereabouts of tourists assists in tourism
development and planning. Using Spatial Analyst tools in Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) ArcGIS 10 software, this paper tries to identify
the most visited attractions by 500 tourists in Langkawi Island on 2011.
From the 500 respondent, 35 attractions in Langkawi Island were visited. |
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