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Sustainability in tourist attractions in Malaysia


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Hassan, Hamimah and Mahat, Norsyafina and Ali, Mass Hareeza and Abdullah, Nawal Hanim and Abdul Karim, Muhammad Shahrim (2014) Sustainability in tourist attractions in Malaysia. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 8 (spec.23). pp. 323-328. ISSN 1991-8178

Abstract

Tourist attraction is a core component in tourism system and the main purpose why visitors travel to a destination. This paper discusses the roles of sustainable development practices in four tourist attractions in Melaka, Malaysia. The main purpose of the research is to examine how does the public and private owned tourist attractions survive over the years, that has led them to sustain and still offering their products to the visitors. Results revealed various strategies that were implemented and these strategies are in line with sustainable tourism concept and also focused strategies with regards to operation management of the tourism sites. The sustainable tourism concept reveals that tourism has the characteristics to improve quality of life of the host community, provide quality experience to the visitors and maintain quality environment for usage of both tourist and the host community. Therefore, a comprehensive dimension in sustainable tourism for managing tourism attractions is proposed.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Economics and Management
Faculty of Food Science and Technology
Faculty of Forestry
Publisher: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information
Keywords: Tourist attraction; Sustainable development; Sustainable tourism concept
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 12 Oct 2016 08:36
Last Modified: 12 Oct 2016 08:36
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35547
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