Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan
Increasing recreational activities in National Park potentially affect the recreational quality. Carrying capacities for protected area such as National Park are highly essential factor for tourism management.The use of carrying capacity as predominant method synthetically presented in this study is...
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| author | Ismail, Mohd Muzzammil Jaafar, Mastura Mohamad, Diana Paijo, Mohd Amirul Nizam |
| author_facet | Ismail, Mohd Muzzammil Jaafar, Mastura Mohamad, Diana Paijo, Mohd Amirul Nizam |
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| description | Increasing recreational activities in National Park potentially affect the recreational quality. Carrying capacities for protected area such as National Park are highly essential factor for tourism management.The use of carrying capacity as predominant method synthetically presented in this study is focused on National Park Kuala Tahan, Pahang (NPKT).This study explores the concept of social carrying capacity (SCC) where concentration on the factors of individuals which park visitors becomes uncomfortable - satisfaction perception. For the SCC, 300 interviews were conducted at the study area exploring social attributes of tourism
development and collected data subjected to a series of descriptive analysis methods.Output
from factor analysis and mean scores confirmed that the ecotourism potentially provides a sustainable approach to tourism development in Malaysia. This study identifies the positives
and negatives social effects of ecotourism development in NPKT from the perspectives of
tourist’s satisfaction. |
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| spelling | uum-203552016-12-15T08:05:30Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20355/ Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan Ismail, Mohd Muzzammil Jaafar, Mastura Mohamad, Diana Paijo, Mohd Amirul Nizam GV Recreation Leisure Increasing recreational activities in National Park potentially affect the recreational quality. Carrying capacities for protected area such as National Park are highly essential factor for tourism management.The use of carrying capacity as predominant method synthetically presented in this study is focused on National Park Kuala Tahan, Pahang (NPKT).This study explores the concept of social carrying capacity (SCC) where concentration on the factors of individuals which park visitors becomes uncomfortable - satisfaction perception. For the SCC, 300 interviews were conducted at the study area exploring social attributes of tourism development and collected data subjected to a series of descriptive analysis methods.Output from factor analysis and mean scores confirmed that the ecotourism potentially provides a sustainable approach to tourism development in Malaysia. This study identifies the positives and negatives social effects of ecotourism development in NPKT from the perspectives of tourist’s satisfaction. 2016-10-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20355/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%205%20A.pdf Ismail, Mohd Muzzammil and Jaafar, Mastura and Mohamad, Diana and Paijo, Mohd Amirul Nizam (2016) Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan. In: International Conference on Government & Public Affairs 2016 (ICOGPA2016), October 5th - 6th, 2016, School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. http://icogpa2016.weebly.com/ |
| spellingShingle | GV Recreation Leisure Ismail, Mohd Muzzammil Jaafar, Mastura Mohamad, Diana Paijo, Mohd Amirul Nizam Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan |
| title | Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan |
| title_full | Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan |
| title_fullStr | Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan |
| title_short | Social carrying capacity of ecotourism National Park Kuala Tahan |
| title_sort | social carrying capacity of ecotourism national park kuala tahan |
| topic | GV Recreation Leisure |
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