Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives
Studies on resident perceptions toward the impacts of tourism development provide crucial feedbacks and information to the local tourism authorities. This study, in particular, investigated the effects of ecotourism activities from environmental, economic, and social perspectives using social excha...
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| author | Mohamed, Ahmad Edwin Alwi, Mohamad Khairi Lim, Wen Xing |
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| description | Studies on resident perceptions toward the impacts of tourism development provide crucial feedbacks
and information to the local tourism authorities. This study, in particular, investigated the effects of ecotourism activities from environmental, economic, and social perspectives using social exchange theory as the theoretical foundation. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to the local residents who live
in Kukup, a small fishing town adjacent to Pulau Kukup National Park to assess their views on the above aspects. The sampling procedure employed was a systematic random sampling of every 5th house in
Kukup with a random starting point. The results of the descriptive analysis indicated that the residents, in general, perceived the environmental, economic, and social impacts in both positive and negative manners. However, residents tend to score higher on the positive aspects than the negative aspects of all three dimensions of impacts. In particular, residents rated the economic impacts very positively than environmental and social impacts. Besides the above, the ANOVA and t-test analyses also suggest that the resident perceptions varied significantly according to age, education, occupation, and income. |
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| spelling | uum-277872020-10-22T06:33:08Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/27787/ Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives Mohamed, Ahmad Edwin Alwi, Mohamad Khairi Lim, Wen Xing GV Recreation Leisure Studies on resident perceptions toward the impacts of tourism development provide crucial feedbacks and information to the local tourism authorities. This study, in particular, investigated the effects of ecotourism activities from environmental, economic, and social perspectives using social exchange theory as the theoretical foundation. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to the local residents who live in Kukup, a small fishing town adjacent to Pulau Kukup National Park to assess their views on the above aspects. The sampling procedure employed was a systematic random sampling of every 5th house in Kukup with a random starting point. The results of the descriptive analysis indicated that the residents, in general, perceived the environmental, economic, and social impacts in both positive and negative manners. However, residents tend to score higher on the positive aspects than the negative aspects of all three dimensions of impacts. In particular, residents rated the economic impacts very positively than environmental and social impacts. Besides the above, the ANOVA and t-test analyses also suggest that the resident perceptions varied significantly according to age, education, occupation, and income. l. 12 (2) pp 112-127 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/27787/1/JTHCA%2012%202%202020%20112%20127.pdf Mohamed, Ahmad Edwin and Alwi, Mohamad Khairi and Lim, Wen Xing (2020) Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives. Journal of Tourism, Hospitality & Culinary Arts (JTHCA), 12 (2). pp. 112-127. ISSN 1985-8914 https://www.jthca.org/online-issues |
| spellingShingle | GV Recreation Leisure Mohamed, Ahmad Edwin Alwi, Mohamad Khairi Lim, Wen Xing Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives |
| title | Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives |
| title_full | Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives |
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| title_short | Ecotourism impacts in Pulau Kukup National Park: Exploring resident perspectives |
| title_sort | ecotourism impacts in pulau kukup national park exploring resident perspectives |
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