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Author : Murugadas Ramdas & Badaruddin Mohamed
School/Work Place : School of Housing, Building and Planning, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia (Murugadas Ramdas), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia (Badaruddin Mohamed)
Contact : muru_rc@yahoo.com
Year : 2013

Tourism is one of the leading contributors to service industry in Malaysia and is gradually growing. The growth of this industry brings impact towards the environment, specifically the water quality of islands. This study views into the visitors and residents perception of the impacts of tourism towards the water quality of islands. A total number of 211 and 258 questionnaires were distributed to visitors Redang and Perhentian Island which are popular tourist destinations. Meanwhile, 188 residents from Redang and 183 from Perhentian were also distributed with the questionnaires. The results indicate that there is a high level of agreement that the water quality of both islands is affected by tourism for both visitors and residents. There were significant difference on the level of agreement between visitors and residents in Perhentian Island for items on sewage water and living things on the sea. Establishing carrying capacity and embedding environmental education in sustainable tourism management would help broaden the perception of visitors.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
22 Think Tank XIII Sri Lanka, Tourism for a Brighter Future? A Review of ... file 28142 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism is considered to have the potential to generate foreign exchange revenue, create jobs for all levels, support handicraft and export industries, promote art and subsidise the development of transportation infrastructure; as it’s a vec...

Author: Zilmiyah Kamble & Frederic Bouchon 

Year: 2013 

» Think Tank XIII Visitors' and Residents' Perception of Tourism Impact ... file 20241 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism is one of the leading contributors to service industry in Malaysia and is gradually growing. The growth of this industry brings impact towards the environment, specifically the water quality of islands. This study views into the visi...

Author: Murugadas Ramdas & Badaruddin Mohamed 

Year: 2013 

20 Think Tank XIII Conceptualising a Framework to Analyse the Factors Inf... file 19331 Nov 06, 2013

As the tourism industry continues to grow globally, sustainable tourism development has drawn interests among researchers, practitioners, governments and stakeholders. There are several studies on the local residents’ support for tourism, lo...

Author: Samuel Folorunso Adeyinka-Ojo, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore & Vikneswaran Nair 

Year: 2013 

19 Think Tank XIII Tourism investment and sustainable development: A comp... file 15574 Nov 06, 2013

Despite the growing importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) for tourism in developing countries and its perceived importance for stimulating sustainable development, few empirical studies have examined its impact. This paper explored t...

Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli 

Year: 2013 

18 Think Tank XIII Using Tourism to Build Social Capital in Communities: ... file 13574 Nov 06, 2013

Despite considerable discussion about how tourism could or should contribute to sustainable destination development, there is little evidence that the practice of tourism planning or development has altered in any significant way in the last...

Author: Gianna Moscardo, Andrea Schurmann, Elena Konovalov & Nancy G. McGehee 

Year: 2013 

17 Think Tank XIII Sustainable Tourism in Kerala - Chances for Local Comm... file 9362 Nov 06, 2013

The Indian state Kerala is positioned by Kerala Tourism as a sustainable tourism destination for domestic and foreign markets (cf. Jean-Francois 2011). Indeed sustainable tourism projects take place and are conducted either by NGOs like Kaba...

Author: Tatjana Thimm 

Year: 2013 

16 Think Tank XIII Assessing the Impact of Rural Tourism Development on t... file 6925 Nov 06, 2013

Past literature has posited that tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors and has been signified as an attractive investment proposition. Rural tourism sector has been actively promoted by the Malaysian government and currently, it is c...

Author: May-Chiun Lo, Vikneswaran Nair, Peter Songan & Helen Lee HuiHui 

Year: 2013 

15 Think Tank XIII Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Capital in... file 6753 Nov 06, 2013

There is substantial literature on the impacts of tourism on culture, both positive and negative, however, there are relatively few articles that explore the relationship between cultural capital and sustainable tourism. This paper will repo...

Author: Laurie Murphy & Andrea Schurmann 

Year: 2013 

14 Think Tank XIII The Paradox of poverty amidst the plenty of nature: co... file 6723 Nov 06, 2013

Rural communities in South Africa have not been active stakeholders in tourism development. Community awareness and involvement in the preservation of natural and cultural heritage through sustainable tourism development in selected areas ad...

Author: Felicité A. Fairer-Wessels 

Year: 2013 

13 Think Tank XIII Understanding Sense of Place in Tourism Development: T... file 6627 Nov 06, 2013

This paper introduces the rationale for a study which explores the relationship between sense of place and sustainability at Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park (TARP), Sabah. Sense of place encompasses an understanding of the meaning bestowed ...

Author: Paulin Wong Poh Lin & Balvinder Kaur Kler 

Year: 2013 

12 Think Tank XIII Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo... file 6479 Nov 06, 2013

In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t...

Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2013 

11 Think Tank XIII Striving for Environmental Sustainability through Soci... file 6256 Nov 06, 2013

The question how native societies cope with the increasing pressure of global values, such as sustainability, westernization and democratic institutions has been asked in the last decades (Smith, 1989; Honey, 1999; Nash, 2001; Honey, 2008). ...

Author: Peter Varga 

Year: 2013 

10 Think Tank XIII Modeling the Index Components of Tourist Satisfaction ... file 5716 Nov 06, 2013

Destination performance evaluation has become an increasingly important task for effective destination management and sustainable destination development. However, it is a complex task due to the inclusion of diverse subsectors, business com...

Author: Toney K. Thomas 

Year: 2013 

9 Think Tank XIII Building community capacity by developing regional bus... file 5323 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism is often proposed as a strategy for community development, especially in rural or remote regions where traditional industries, such as agriculture, are experiencing an economic downturn and there are limited alternative opportunities...

Author: Anna Blackman 

Year: 2013 

8 Think Tank XIII Regional Collaboration as the Conduit for Sustainable ... file 5019 Nov 06, 2013

Sustaining rural America is one of today's pressing issues. With the decline of family operated farms and the move away from traditional extraction industries, word about the benefits of developing tourism in rural communities and regions is...

Author: Paige P. Schneider, Cynthia S. Deale & Svitlana Iarmolenko 

Year: 2013 

7 Think Tank XIII Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo... file 5014 Nov 06, 2013

Despite the importance of cities and tourism flows to cities, the literature which explores the effect of tourism on host communities tends to focus on non-urban locations. As different types of tourists place different demands upon the reso...

Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2013 

6 Think Tank XIII Local Residents' Involvement in Rural Tourism: The Cas... file 4724 Nov 06, 2013

Community involvement is regarded as a significant factor for the development of rural tourism. In Malaysia, cooperatives are used as a catalyst to achieve community development through community involvement. This paper focuses on the involv...

Author: Uma Thevi Munikrishnan, Sushila Devi Rajaratnam, Paolo Mura & Vikneswaran Nair 

Year: 2013 

5 Think Tank XIII Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ... file 4475 Nov 06, 2013

One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...

Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor 

Year: 2013 

4 Think Tank XIII Tourism development led by the Third Sector - Impacts ... file 4466 Nov 06, 2013

Most tourism development is initiated and led by either the private or the public sector. These projects’ potential impacts on host communities have been explored since the 1980s, and they are now relatively well known. This is not the case ...

Author: Julia N. Albrecht & My N. D. Tran 

Year: 2013 

3 Think Tank XIII City Slicker to Roo Carer: The Journey of a Wildlife V... file 4147 Nov 06, 2013

The level of interest and participation in voluntourism has progressively become a major sector in contemporary tourism. The notion of combining a novel and pleasurable tourism experience with the fulfillment of contributing a worthwhile cau...

Author: Eunice Tan 

Year: 2013 

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