Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs in Langkawi Island
The tourism sector has a huge effect in developing countries by providing immense economic opportunities to the local community. Entrepreneurship has been identified as essential actors for creating job opportunities, generating income, increasing standard of living and generally growing the econ...
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| author | Nordin, Aleff Omar Shah Tuan Lonik, Ku Azam Jaafar, Mastura |
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| description | The tourism sector has a huge effect in developing countries by providing
immense economic opportunities to the local community. Entrepreneurship has been
identified as essential actors for creating job opportunities, generating income, increasing
standard of living and generally growing the economy. Using the random sampling
approach, the questionnaires were distributed to the tourism entrepreneurs in the tourism
attraction area in Langkawi Island. During the survey period, only a total of 263
entrepreneurs completed the questionnaires. The objective of this study is to explore the
economic empowerment of the tourism entrepreneurship in contributing to income level,
creating job opportunities and increasing standard of living. The findings of the study
clearly show that the tourism entrepreneur activities contribute positively to income level,
jobs, opportunities and standard of living of the local community. |
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| spelling | usm-389522018-02-15T01:44:44Z http://eprints.usm.my/38952/ Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs in Langkawi Island Nordin, Aleff Omar Shah Tuan Lonik, Ku Azam Jaafar, Mastura LC5800-5808 Distance education. TH1-9745 Building construction The tourism sector has a huge effect in developing countries by providing immense economic opportunities to the local community. Entrepreneurship has been identified as essential actors for creating job opportunities, generating income, increasing standard of living and generally growing the economy. Using the random sampling approach, the questionnaires were distributed to the tourism entrepreneurs in the tourism attraction area in Langkawi Island. During the survey period, only a total of 263 entrepreneurs completed the questionnaires. The objective of this study is to explore the economic empowerment of the tourism entrepreneurship in contributing to income level, creating job opportunities and increasing standard of living. The findings of the study clearly show that the tourism entrepreneur activities contribute positively to income level, jobs, opportunities and standard of living of the local community. EDP Sciences 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/38952/1/Empowering_Local_Communities_through_Tourism_Entrepreneurship_The_Case_of_Micro_Tourism_Entrepreneurs_in_Langkawi_Island.pdf Nordin, Aleff Omar Shah and Tuan Lonik, Ku Azam and Jaafar, Mastura (2014) Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs in Langkawi Island. SHS Web of Conferences, 12 (01101). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2261-2424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20141201101 |
| spellingShingle | LC5800-5808 Distance education. TH1-9745 Building construction Nordin, Aleff Omar Shah Tuan Lonik, Ku Azam Jaafar, Mastura Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs in Langkawi Island |
| title | Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs
in Langkawi Island |
| title_full | Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs
in Langkawi Island |
| title_fullStr | Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs
in Langkawi Island |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs
in Langkawi Island |
| title_short | Empowering Local Communities through Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Micro Tourism Entrepreneurs
in Langkawi Island |
| title_sort | empowering local communities through tourism entrepreneurship: the case of micro tourism entrepreneurs
in langkawi island |
| topic | LC5800-5808 Distance education. TH1-9745 Building construction |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/38952/ http://eprints.usm.my/38952/ http://eprints.usm.my/38952/1/Empowering_Local_Communities_through_Tourism_Entrepreneurship_The_Case_of_Micro_Tourism_Entrepreneurs_in_Langkawi_Island.pdf |