Satisfaction Of local community and tourist at Tanjung Emas, Muar for potential ecotourism

• Main Authors: Phwan Chai Kee, Yvonne Kong Weng Sam, Chin Sut Kiy, Tan Yi Fie, Amal Najihah Muhamad Nor
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9077/1/SKMBT_C65414042716440%281%29.pdf; http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9077/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

Ecotourism plays an important role in the community development because the community is considered had been exposed to the knowledge and essentially understand the importance of the incomes from tourism to sustain the country’s economic and the community well - being (Nurhazani and Kalsom, 2006). This study is predominantly to assess the resource condition of Tanjung Emas, and examine the issues related to the visitors’ impact, ecology, culture and social of Tanjung Emas. The objectives are to identify the s atisfaction levels of the visitors towards the facilities in Tanjung Emas, the possibility development of the Tanjung Emas to be develop as an ecotourism spot and also to suggest the effective recommendations for minimizing the visitors’ impact to the plac e. There are three methods had been used in these studies which were direct observation, interview and questionnaire. The satisfaction of the facilities at Tanjung Emas among the localities had showed the significant value which is 0.036, p < 0.05; whereas the satisfaction of the tourists had showed non - significant value, 0.910 in which p > 0.05.