scholarly journals Tourists’ Perceived Destination Competitiveness in Protected Areas: The Case of Semenggoh Nature Reserve

2019 ◽  
pp. 1600-1608
Author(s):  
Jun-Zhou Thong ◽  
May-Chiun Lo ◽  
Mohamad Kadim Suaidi ◽  
Abang Azlan Mohamad ◽  
Chee-Hua Chin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Perceived Values ◽  
Destination Competitiveness ◽  
Path Modelling

Ecotourism is referred to sustainable tourism, whereby responsible travel is endorsed, especially in natural areas that emphasize on relaxation. In Malaysia, the richness of natural areas leads ecotourism to become one of the rapidly growing industries within the nation. Thus, there is a need for complete understanding of ecotourism practice in planning, developing, and resources management to ensure sustainability without causing environmental degradation. Over the decades, people are progressively pursuing for reconnection with the nature for pukka natural experiences during their travel. This study intends to identify the impacts of natural resources, accessibility, cultural uniqueness, carrying capacity, and perceived values on tourism destination competitiveness from tourists’ perspectives. A total of 157 respondents had participated in completing the questionnaire. WarpPLS (version 6.0) was applied to assess the developed model based on path modelling followed by bootstrapping. The results revealed that accessibility and cultural uniqueness are positively and significantly correlated to tourism destination competitiveness based on tourists’ perspectives. Surprisingly, natural resources, carrying capacity, and perceived values were observed to be no significant relationship with tourism destination competitiveness. The implications, limitations, and directions for future research are further discussed.

scholarly journals Rural Tourism Sustainable Management and Destination Marketing Efforts: Key Factors from Communities’ Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee-Hua Chin ◽  
May-Chiun Lo ◽  
T. Ramayah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Destination Marketing ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Path Modelling

Rural tourism is seen as a potential sector in promoting country to the world and at the same time generates incomes to local communities. However, due to the lucrative economic benefits, tourism destination’s sustainability and quality of services is often being ignored. Thus, this study highlights the importance of sustainable management and destination marketing efforts in rural tourism destinations with identified significant contributively factors from local communities’ perspective. A total of 168 respondents comprising of local communities from <em>Kampung Telaga Air</em> and <em>Kampung Semadang</em>, Kuching, Sarawak took part voluntarily in this study. To assess the developed model, SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) is applied based on path modelling and bootstrapping. Interestingly, the findings revealed that local communities believed factors like climate change, carrying capacity of a destination, and environmental education are significantly affect both tourism destination sustainable management and destination marketing efforts. Furthermore, community support is also found to be important too for tourism destination marketing efforts. Surprisingly, community support was found no relations with destination sustainable management from local communities’ point of view. This study further discussed on the implications of the findings, limitations, and direction for future research.

scholarly journals Community, Natural Resources, and Sustainability: Overview of an Interdisciplinary and International Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1061
Author(s):  
Hua Qin ◽  
Martha Bass ◽  
Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad ◽  
David Matarrita-Cascante ◽  
Christine Sanders ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Meta Analyses

The Special Issue Community, Natural Resources, and Sustainability seeks to engage in an interdisciplinary and international dialogue on the interrelationships of society, natural resources, and sustainability at the community level. In addition to introducing the twelve research articles published in this collection, we provide an overview of the existing literature on community and natural resource management, mainly through a review of previous reviews and a bibliometric analysis. While this literature is dominated by studies on various aspects of community-based natural resource management, the present Special Issue showcases multiple thematic areas of research that collectively contribute to a more complete understanding of the community-resources-sustainability linkages. Our review also pinpoints important gaps in existing meta-analyses and bibliometric analyses. Promising directions for future research are highlighted.

Tourists’ perspectives on hard and soft services toward rural tourism destination competitiveness: Community support as a moderator

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
May-Chiun Lo ◽  
Chee-Hua Chin ◽  
Fung-Yee Law
Keyword(s):  
Community Support ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Path Modeling ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Destination Competitiveness ◽  
Rural Destinations

Rural tourism is an integrated part in the services field, and this industry has long been recognized as a valuable tool for economic development in rural destinations. However, the multiplying growth of rural tourism destinations has led to a stiff competition among the industry. Thus, the identification of tourists’ perspective on the hard and soft services components toward the development of rural tourism is a key element in surviving into the rapid tourism competition. The pivotal role of community support as an integral part of tourism product in ensuring sustainable development of rural tourism destination would also being the key indicator for the development of rural tourism. Hence, this study highlighted the importance of tourists’ perspective on hard services (tourism infrastructure and accommodation) and soft services (range of activities and special events) toward the competitiveness of rural tourism destination’s development with community support who act as a moderator. A total of 314 respondents comprising tourists who visited Kampung Semadang, Kampung Telaga Air, and Kubah National Park ( Kampung Matang), Kuching, Sarawak has voluntarily participated in this study. To assess the developed model, SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) is applied based on path modeling and bootstrapping. Interestingly, the findings revealed that tourists are more concerned about the quality of accommodation, infrastructure, range of activities, and special events for the development of tourism destination competitiveness in rural tourism destination. In addition, tourists also believed that the existence of community support is crucial in moderating the relationship between accommodation quality and tourism destination competitiveness. This study further discussed on the implications of the findings, limitations, and directions for future research.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Multi-environmental Constructs on Tourism Destination Competitiveness: Local Residents’ Perceptions

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee-Hua Chin ◽  
May-Chiun Lo ◽  
Abang Azlan Mohamad ◽  
Vikneswaran Nair
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Destination Competitiveness ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Rural Destinations

In the rural tourism industry, the environment has emerged to be of most concern to the local communities, followed by social-cultural and economic issues. Stemming from the awareness, the environment has become one of the main pillars for sustainable tourism development, particularly, rural tourism destination. On the other note, in a competitive tourism market, it is important for rural tourism destinations to create competitive advantage in order to attract visitors. Therefore, competitiveness theory underpins the research framework proposed and attempts to examine the impacts of multi-environmental constructs towards the development of rural tourism destination competitiveness. A total of 278 respondents comprising of local communities from rural destinations in Sarawak, Malaysia took part voluntarily in this study. To assess the developed model, SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) is applied based on path modelling and bootstrapping. The findings showed that local residents are in their believed that for a rural tourism destination to enhance its competitiveness, environmental education is the key to increase environmental conservation that lead to better quality of environment. Tourism infrastructure is an added advantage to increase a tourism destination competitiveness. This study further discussed on the implications of the findings, limitations, and direction for future research.

Regional Policy in the Field of Natural Resources Management in the Far North

2003 ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
A. Bykov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Resource Saving ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Far North ◽  
The Russian Federation

According to the legal norms of the Russian Federation in the ownership, usage and disposal of natural resources the author analyses interaction between natural resources users and local authorities. The interaction is based upon ecological and economic factors, which cause the peculiarities of requirements put before natural resource users in the Far North. The strategic directions of resource saving economic development of these regions are considered.

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