Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia

Human-wildlife interactive experience has become a popular recreational pursuit in the wildlife-based tourism. Many tourists seek close interaction with wild animal in a safe while in its natural or semi-natural settings. The interface between people who desired to be with animal in its habitat is a...

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Main Author:	Daud, Darishawati
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	Wildlife conservation - Pahang Ecotourism - Pahang - Case studies Elephants - Conservation - Pahang
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10170/1/FH_2009_14_A.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.101702013-05-27T07:45:11Z Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia 2009 Daud, Darishawati Human-wildlife interactive experience has become a popular recreational pursuit in the wildlife-based tourism. Many tourists seek close interaction with wild animal in a safe while in its natural or semi-natural settings. The interface between people who desired to be with animal in its habitat is able to create closeness atmosphere. Such experience could result in better appreciation of wild animals and sustainability of the wildlife interactive base tourism. This study was conducted in Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre (KGNECC). The Department of Wildlife and National Park (DWNP) set aside a portion of the Krau Forest Reserve Pahang for the centre. The centre also takes care of the orphaned and abandoned elephants. The main objective of this study was to determine the factors in visiting KGNECC that related with the human-wildlife interactive activity.These factors are to be considered as the basis for sustainability of KGNECC visitors-wildlife interactive activity. In this study, questionnaires were distributed using convenience sampling technique to 400 visitors in order to get responses related to the wildlife interactive activity. The questionnaire were administered using structured questions that covers on respondents’ opinions on KGNECC regarding the visitation attributes, preferences in tourism activities particularly on the wildlife tourism activities, including their level of interaction with the wildlife and their relationship between the types of wildlife tourism activities and the level of interactions that have occurred. Wildlife conservation - Pahang Ecotourism - Pahang - Case studies Elephants - Conservation - Pahang 2009 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10170/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10170/1/FH_2009_14_A.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Wildlife conservation - Pahang Ecotourism - Pahang - Case studies Elephants - Conservation - Pahang Faculty of Forestry English
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language	English English
topic	Wildlife conservation - Pahang Ecotourism - Pahang - Case studies Elephants - Conservation - Pahang
spellingShingle	Wildlife conservation - Pahang Ecotourism - Pahang - Case studies Elephants - Conservation - Pahang Daud, Darishawati Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia
description	Human-wildlife interactive experience has become a popular recreational pursuit in the wildlife-based tourism. Many tourists seek close interaction with wild animal in a safe while in its natural or semi-natural settings. The interface between people who desired to be with animal in its habitat is able to create closeness atmosphere. Such experience could result in better appreciation of wild animals and sustainability of the wildlife interactive base tourism. This study was conducted in Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre (KGNECC). The Department of Wildlife and National Park (DWNP) set aside a portion of the Krau Forest Reserve Pahang for the centre. The centre also takes care of the orphaned and abandoned elephants. The main objective of this study was to determine the factors in visiting KGNECC that related with the human-wildlife interactive activity.These factors are to be considered as the basis for sustainability of KGNECC visitors-wildlife interactive activity. In this study, questionnaires were distributed using convenience sampling technique to 400 visitors in order to get responses related to the wildlife interactive activity. The questionnaire were administered using structured questions that covers on respondents’ opinions on KGNECC regarding the visitation attributes, preferences in tourism activities particularly on the wildlife tourism activities, including their level of interaction with the wildlife and their relationship between the types of wildlife tourism activities and the level of interactions that have occurred.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Daud, Darishawati
author_facet	Daud, Darishawati
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title	Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia
title_short	Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full	Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia
title_sort	visitor opinion on wildlife activities at kuala gandah national elephant conservation centre, pahang, malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department	Faculty of Forestry
publishDate	2009
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10170/1/FH_2009_14_A.pdf
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Visitor Opinion on Wildlife Activities at Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Centre, Pahang, Malaysia

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