Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini

Appropriate management and sound environmental planning is critical in natural-areas tourism. Natural-areas tourism can be an industry with low environmental impact and significant economic return, if properly planned and managed. In contrast, inadequate planned and managed natural-areas tourism wil...

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Main Author:	Ghazvini, Seyed Ahmad Moumen
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Travel Voyages and travels (General)
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17382/7/17382.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.173822022-11-24T04:15:43Z Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini 2014-08 Ghazvini, Seyed Ahmad Moumen Travel. Voyages and travels (General) Appropriate management and sound environmental planning is critical in natural-areas tourism. Natural-areas tourism can be an industry with low environmental impact and significant economic return, if properly planned and managed. In contrast, inadequate planned and managed natural-areas tourism will alter it to high environmental impact and limited economic return. Ecotourism is a sustainable form of natural-areas tourism which has increasingly grown throughout the world over the past decades. The primary aim of ecotourism relates to learning and experiencing nature and should contribute to the conservation of natural areas. In this matter; understanding of tourist attitudes and beliefs is crucial. These vary with people's values, attitudes, beliefs, awareness and environmental concern, as they become engaged in environmental issues and carry out pro-environmental behavior. Given the aforementioned reason, it is notably important to evaluate tourists' value orientations, environmental concern, and perception toward appropriate use of national parks which is useful for improving productive strategies in management of natural resources and protected areas. This study firstly attempted to examine value orientations and environmental concern among tourists along with their perception toward appropriate use of national parks and secondly investigated the relationship between abovementioned variables. A self-administrated questionnaire was collected from 379 tourists in Taman Negara, Pahang. A number of statistical analyses were applied with the purpose of achieving the research objectives as well as exposing the results of the study questions and hypotheses. The findings reveal that egoistic value orientation has negative relationship while altruistic value orientation and biospheric value orientation have positive relationship with environmental concern. Environmental concern also found out negatively related with four favorable constructs regarding appropriate use of national parks. The results show positive and negative relationship between three types of value orientations and accommodation and services, activities, and facilities within national parks. Moreover, the role of environmental concern as a mediator has been proven as it mediates the relationship between value orientations and appropriate use of national parks. The outcomes of this study theoretically contribute to the ecotourism literatures through presenting supplementary insights into value orientations and environmental concern of tourists and their perception regarding appropriate use of national parks. The results will also serve management of natural resources and national parks to put into practice the notion of use without abuse. 2014-08 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17382/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/17382/7/17382.pdf text en public mphil masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management Lim, Lay Kian (Dr.) Sarmento, Joao (Assistant Professor Dr.)
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language	English
advisor	Lim, Lay Kian (Dr.) Sarmento, Joao (Assistant Professor Dr.)
topic	Travel Voyages and travels (General)
spellingShingle	Travel Voyages and travels (General) Ghazvini, Seyed Ahmad Moumen Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini
description	Appropriate management and sound environmental planning is critical in natural-areas tourism. Natural-areas tourism can be an industry with low environmental impact and significant economic return, if properly planned and managed. In contrast, inadequate planned and managed natural-areas tourism will alter it to high environmental impact and limited economic return. Ecotourism is a sustainable form of natural-areas tourism which has increasingly grown throughout the world over the past decades. The primary aim of ecotourism relates to learning and experiencing nature and should contribute to the conservation of natural areas. In this matter; understanding of tourist attitudes and beliefs is crucial. These vary with people's values, attitudes, beliefs, awareness and environmental concern, as they become engaged in environmental issues and carry out pro-environmental behavior. Given the aforementioned reason, it is notably important to evaluate tourists' value orientations, environmental concern, and perception toward appropriate use of national parks which is useful for improving productive strategies in management of natural resources and protected areas. This study firstly attempted to examine value orientations and environmental concern among tourists along with their perception toward appropriate use of national parks and secondly investigated the relationship between abovementioned variables. A self-administrated questionnaire was collected from 379 tourists in Taman Negara, Pahang. A number of statistical analyses were applied with the purpose of achieving the research objectives as well as exposing the results of the study questions and hypotheses. The findings reveal that egoistic value orientation has negative relationship while altruistic value orientation and biospheric value orientation have positive relationship with environmental concern. Environmental concern also found out negatively related with four favorable constructs regarding appropriate use of national parks. The results show positive and negative relationship between three types of value orientations and accommodation and services, activities, and facilities within national parks. Moreover, the role of environmental concern as a mediator has been proven as it mediates the relationship between value orientations and appropriate use of national parks. The outcomes of this study theoretically contribute to the ecotourism literatures through presenting supplementary insights into value orientations and environmental concern of tourists and their perception regarding appropriate use of national parks. The results will also serve management of natural resources and national parks to put into practice the notion of use without abuse.
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qualification_name	Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ghazvini, Seyed Ahmad Moumen
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author_sort	Ghazvini, Seyed Ahmad Moumen
title	Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini
title_short	Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini
title_full	Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini
title_fullStr	Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini
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Tourists' value orientations, environmental concern and perception toward appropriate use of national parks / Seyed Ahmad Moumen Ghazvini

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