Kinabalu Park, Malaysia

2019 ◽  
pp. 320-321
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2016 ◽  
Vol 403 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony van der Ent ◽  
Peter Erskine ◽  
David Mulligan ◽  
Rimi Repin ◽  
Rositti Karim
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Herzogia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Paukov ◽  
Harrie J. M. Sipman ◽  
Martin Kukwa ◽  
Rimi Repin ◽  
Anzhelika Teptina

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Xin Tay ◽  
Jennifer Kim Lian Chan ◽  
Christine A. Vogt ◽  
Badaruddin Mohamed

Author(s):  
Jennifer Kim Lian Chan ◽  
Kai Xin Tay

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the key motivators triggering tour operators to practise responsible tourism in Kinabalu Park. Design/methodology/approach Inductive and phenomenological research data were collected via in-depth interviews with 25 tour operators guiding tours in Kinabalu Park, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Findings The paper uses push and pull motivation theory to explain motivation in practising responsible tourism. The findings show that push factors are more significant to tour operators as compared to pull factors. The key motivation of tour operators to practise responsible tourism is organisational benefits and own initiative (intrinsic) and response demand and market trends (extrinsic). However, the findings show that although tour operators have a positive attitude towards responsible tourism, it does not show in their tour operations of Kinabalu Park. This is because the challenges like lack stakeholders participation and low responsible tourism awareness were negatively affecting to what tour operators would like to do and what actually gets done. Practical implications Identified motives, practices, issues and challenges are valuable information and to enhance the practices of responsible tourism in Kinabalu Park, Sabah. Originality/value The paper provides in-depth insight of the motivation to practise responsible tourism from tour operators’ perspectives in Kinabalu Park. The finding is benefiting the implementation of responsible tourism in Kinabalu Park.


Metahumaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Nur Widiyanto

AbstractThe paper discusses cultural movement of the Dusun community in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia and its connection to eco-tourism development in Kinabalu Park. The objective is to examine whether the involvement of the local people with the ecotourism through dominating the numbers of mountain guides and initiating the kakakapan id gayongaran (a traditional ceremony)are strategies to deal with the forces that culturally excludesthem from the ancestral land or merely spontaneously actions. Employing ethnographic studies through participant observation, it reveals that the Dusun people in Bundu Tuhan had successfully exercised the heteropic tourism through combining the involvement on mountain guiding and cultural events to obtain a bigger recognition toward the access Mount Kinabaluas their ancestral land. The outcomes are the two-day free access to the mountain every year and steady economic income earned through working at the Kinabalu Park.Keywords: dusun, heteropic, tourism, Kinabalu Park, ancestral landAbstrakPaper ini membahas gerakan cultural komunitas Dusun di Kampung Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia dan kaitannya dengan eko-wisata di Taman Kinabalu. Tujuan riset ini adalah melihat apakah keterlibatan penduduk local dalam wisata alam melalui upaya mendominasi jumlah pemandu gunung dan menginisiasi ritual “kakakapan id gayongaran” merupakan strategi untuk bernegosiasi dengan kekuatan luar yang meminggirkan mereka secara budaya, atau sekedar tindakan yang bersifat spontan. Menggunakan metode etnografi melalui observasi lapangan, hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa orang Dusun di Bundu Tuhan berhasil menggunakan “heteropic tourism” dengan mengkombinasikan keterlibatan mereka dalam bisnis pemandu gunung dan menginisiasi event budaya untuk mendapatkan pengakuan atas akses yang lebih besar terhadap Gunung Kinabalu sebagai tanah adat mereka. Hasil yang diperoleh adalah akses selama 2 hari dalam satu tahun untuk melakukan ziarah gunung dan pada sisi lain tetap mendapatkan keuntungan ekonomi yang stabil dengan bekerja di Taman Kinabalu.Kata kunci: dusun, heteropic, wisata, Taman Kinabalu, tanah leluhur


Author(s):  
Goh Hong Ching ◽  
Wan Nur Syazana Wan Mohamad Ariffin

Protected areas are established for conservation of unique and pristine environment. Although protected, they are subjected to possible environmental and social impacts due to increasing tourism activities. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Kinabalu Park's environmental interpretation in mitigating these impacts through the assessment of visitors’ knowledge. Visitors' knowledge was compared between those who were exposed (post-visit) and not exposed to the interpretive programs (pre-visit). Overall, environmental interpretation in Kinabalu Park is partially successful in influencing visitors' knowledge related to general facts as post-vist samples indicated higher level of knowledge. However, there were no differences in their knowledge related to scientific aspect. Keywords: environmental interpretation; knowledge; protected areas; repeat visitors eISSN 2514-751X © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v4i13.344


Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 181 (3) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhao Chen ◽  
Khoon Meng Wong ◽  
Antony Van der Ent ◽  
Hugh Tiang Wah Tan

Nine new species of Timonius (Rubiaceae) from Kinabalu Park are described: T. abanii, T. beamanii, T. bullatus, T. kinabaluensis, T. leopoldii, T. ophioliticus, T. pannosus, T. stenolobus, and T. tambuyukonensis. Of the nine species, six are likely to be endemic to the Kinabalu massif, and four appear to occur exclusively on ultramafic soils.


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