Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah

This study was conducted in Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR), Lahad Datu, Sabah with a general objective to urge effective ways to increase invertebrate's conservation effort through ecotourism activity. Specifically, three objectives were pOSited in this study, namely, to determine the response...

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Main Author:	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	QL Zoology
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spelling	my-ums-ep.194852018-03-23T08:20:46Z Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah 2015 Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin QL Zoology This study was conducted in Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR), Lahad Datu, Sabah with a general objective to urge effective ways to increase invertebrate's conservation effort through ecotourism activity. Specifically, three objectives were pOSited in this study, namely, to determine the response of tourist to the concept of including such invertebrates information in current ecotourism activities, to obtain an overview of the current levels of the inclusion of invertebrates information in certain types of ecotourism activities and to provide recommendations on how to address the lack of invertebrate information in ecotourism. Therefore, mixed methods approaches were applied which comprised Participation and Observation of TWR guided walk, Invertebrate's Record and Preliminary Entotourism Course and Survey. Alternately, a conceptual framework was proposed in this study which comprised five variables overall (Activity, Information, Willingness, Interest and Ecotourism). SPSS and AMOS analysis utilising Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) were used for quantitative data analysis, while Leximancer was used to analyse the qualitative data. SEM analysis of the questionnaire survey divulged that 65% variance of Ecotourism was well expounded by all four exogenous variables. Meanwhile, Leximancer analysis revealed six dominant themes which representing the perceptions of tourists to the inclusion of invertebrate in the ecotourism activities, in turn, this Leximancer finding used to support and strengthen the SEM findings. Consequently, the findings of this study are important to contribute to the literature of species conservation awareness in Sabah in which there are only few researches conducted specifically on the entotourism field. It would also contribute to the management and policy making of Sabah's tourism master plan in terms of introducing a new tourism product for Sabah as well as enhance the sustainability of ecotourism operators and encourage the competitiveness in the tourism industry. Lastly, these research findings are able to broaden the scope of ecotourism activities that would help to minimize the negative impacts of tourism that stressing more on the already endangered species. 2015 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19485/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19485/1/Assessment%20of%20invertebrates%20as%20ecotourism.pdf text en public masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation
institution	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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language	English
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spellingShingle	QL Zoology Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah
description	This study was conducted in Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR), Lahad Datu, Sabah with a general objective to urge effective ways to increase invertebrate's conservation effort through ecotourism activity. Specifically, three objectives were pOSited in this study, namely, to determine the response of tourist to the concept of including such invertebrates information in current ecotourism activities, to obtain an overview of the current levels of the inclusion of invertebrates information in certain types of ecotourism activities and to provide recommendations on how to address the lack of invertebrate information in ecotourism. Therefore, mixed methods approaches were applied which comprised Participation and Observation of TWR guided walk, Invertebrate's Record and Preliminary Entotourism Course and Survey. Alternately, a conceptual framework was proposed in this study which comprised five variables overall (Activity, Information, Willingness, Interest and Ecotourism). SPSS and AMOS analysis utilising Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) were used for quantitative data analysis, while Leximancer was used to analyse the qualitative data. SEM analysis of the questionnaire survey divulged that 65% variance of Ecotourism was well expounded by all four exogenous variables. Meanwhile, Leximancer analysis revealed six dominant themes which representing the perceptions of tourists to the inclusion of invertebrate in the ecotourism activities, in turn, this Leximancer finding used to support and strengthen the SEM findings. Consequently, the findings of this study are important to contribute to the literature of species conservation awareness in Sabah in which there are only few researches conducted specifically on the entotourism field. It would also contribute to the management and policy making of Sabah's tourism master plan in terms of introducing a new tourism product for Sabah as well as enhance the sustainability of ecotourism operators and encourage the competitiveness in the tourism industry. Lastly, these research findings are able to broaden the scope of ecotourism activities that would help to minimize the negative impacts of tourism that stressing more on the already endangered species.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin
author_facet	Ak. Mohd Rafiq Ak. Matusin
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title	Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah
title_short	Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah
title_full	Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah
title_fullStr	Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah
title_sort	assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for tabin wildlife reserve, sabah
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
granting_department	Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation
publishDate	2015
url	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19485/1/Assessment%20of%20invertebrates%20as%20ecotourism.pdf
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Assessment of invertebrates as ecotourism product for Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah

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