Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak

Nowadays, tourism industry becomes one of the profitable industries, which contribute to the growth of the country economy. Due to that factor, Malaysia can be considered as providential country by having unique tourism attractions that can be transformed into tourism production, which some of th...

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Main Author:	Abdul Razak, Rozalina
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17728/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17728/2/TM_ROZALINA%20ABDUL%20RAZAK%20HM%2010_5.pdf

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spelling	uitm-177282019-02-27T06:45:39Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17728/ Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak Abdul Razak, Rozalina Nowadays, tourism industry becomes one of the profitable industries, which contribute to the growth of the country economy. Due to that factor, Malaysia can be considered as providential country by having unique tourism attractions that can be transformed into tourism production, which some of them are from rural tourism industry. Therefore, it is important to fully utilized rural tourism resources in order to create rural tourism product that have competitive edge. However, there are many factors need to be considered when embark in rural tourism sector. The most important thing to be considered is the support from the local community itself. This is because without the support and commitment from local community, all the planning and strategies cannot be succeeded. Therefore, the research proposes is to look at the support of destination competitiveness strategies among rural community in Perlis. Considering the community as the central to this process, they should be involved and affected by rural tourism. In order to do that, the entire development plan should benefit the community. A simple random sampling had been used which involves 182 respondents from rural community in Perlis. By using self reported questionnaires, survey had been done from one house to another by the researcher. The outcome of the research supports the hypotheses made and the findings also answered the research questions outlined in the proposed research. It is a great hope that the proposed research can be undertaken in order to benefit policy makers, educators, and tourism authorities, on the planning and developing destination competitiveness strategies by considering community’s perspective. 2010 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17728/2/TM_ROZALINA%20ABDUL%20RAZAK%20HM%2010_5.pdf Abdul Razak, Rozalina (2010) Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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description	Nowadays, tourism industry becomes one of the profitable industries, which contribute to the growth of the country economy. Due to that factor, Malaysia can be considered as providential country by having unique tourism attractions that can be transformed into tourism production, which some of them are from rural tourism industry. Therefore, it is important to fully utilized rural tourism resources in order to create rural tourism product that have competitive edge. However, there are many factors need to be considered when embark in rural tourism sector. The most important thing to be considered is the support from the local community itself. This is because without the support and commitment from local community, all the planning and strategies cannot be succeeded. Therefore, the research proposes is to look at the support of destination competitiveness strategies among rural community in Perlis. Considering the community as the central to this process, they should be involved and affected by rural tourism. In order to do that, the entire development plan should benefit the community. A simple random sampling had been used which involves 182 respondents from rural community in Perlis. By using self reported questionnaires, survey had been done from one house to another by the researcher. The outcome of the research supports the hypotheses made and the findings also answered the research questions outlined in the proposed research. It is a great hope that the proposed research can be undertaken in order to benefit policy makers, educators, and tourism authorities, on the planning and developing destination competitiveness strategies by considering community’s perspective.
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author	Abdul Razak, Rozalina
spellingShingle	Abdul Razak, Rozalina Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak
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title	Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak
title_short	Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak
title_full	Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak
title_fullStr	Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak
title_full_unstemmed	Rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / Rozalina Abdul Razak
title_sort	rural tourism: support for destination competitiveness strategies from communitys’ perspective / rozalina abdul razak
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