Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim

This study is about an evaluation of tourist’s safety during mountain climbing in Gunung Stong based on their expectation and perception before and after climbing. The aim of this study is to identify safety level of tourists towards mountain based adventure tourism activity at Gunung Stong State Pa...

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Main Author:	Hilmi, Nurhidayah
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	G Geography (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33754/1/NurhidayahHilmiMFAB2012.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.337542021-06-24T08:03:23Z Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim 2012-01 Hilmi, Nurhidayah G Geography (General) This study is about an evaluation of tourist’s safety during mountain climbing in Gunung Stong based on their expectation and perception before and after climbing. The aim of this study is to identify safety level of tourists towards mountain based adventure tourism activity at Gunung Stong State Park. In order to achieve the aim of this study, quantitative approach and descriptive study has been used to carry out tourist’s questionnaires in survey station, Baha’s Camp. Four safety attributes were tested to tourists in order to identify their expectation and perception toward safety in Mount Stong. Their feedback has been analyzed in Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) to know the mean of each attributes. The result show that tour guide, equipment and park management were the important factors to tourist’s safety based on the mean which plotted in different quadrant. In addition, the researcher also had identified the market segments of tourists who climbing Gunung Stong which is beginner climbers, intermediate climbers and expert climbers based on their perception of safety. It shows that different groups of adventure tourists have different level of safety concern during climbing Gunung Stong. Thus, the researcher has proposed several recommendations to improve the safety level in Gunung Stong which are by providing safety training, to conduct regular inspections, to acquire adequate and appropriate insurance coverage and to prepare appropriate safety forms for tourists. Hopefully, these recommendations will help the management to improve the safety in Gunung Stong and help to promote Gunung Stong as safe destination for mountain climbing. 2012-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33754/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33754/1/NurhidayahHilmiMFAB2012.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment
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language	English
topic	G Geography (General)
spellingShingle	G Geography (General) Hilmi, Nurhidayah Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim
description	This study is about an evaluation of tourist’s safety during mountain climbing in Gunung Stong based on their expectation and perception before and after climbing. The aim of this study is to identify safety level of tourists towards mountain based adventure tourism activity at Gunung Stong State Park. In order to achieve the aim of this study, quantitative approach and descriptive study has been used to carry out tourist’s questionnaires in survey station, Baha’s Camp. Four safety attributes were tested to tourists in order to identify their expectation and perception toward safety in Mount Stong. Their feedback has been analyzed in Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) to know the mean of each attributes. The result show that tour guide, equipment and park management were the important factors to tourist’s safety based on the mean which plotted in different quadrant. In addition, the researcher also had identified the market segments of tourists who climbing Gunung Stong which is beginner climbers, intermediate climbers and expert climbers based on their perception of safety. It shows that different groups of adventure tourists have different level of safety concern during climbing Gunung Stong. Thus, the researcher has proposed several recommendations to improve the safety level in Gunung Stong which are by providing safety training, to conduct regular inspections, to acquire adequate and appropriate insurance coverage and to prepare appropriate safety forms for tourists. Hopefully, these recommendations will help the management to improve the safety in Gunung Stong and help to promote Gunung Stong as safe destination for mountain climbing.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Hilmi, Nurhidayah
author_facet	Hilmi, Nurhidayah
author_sort	Hilmi, Nurhidayah
title	Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim
title_short	Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim
title_full	Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim
title_fullStr	Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim
title_full_unstemmed	Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim
title_sort	tourist's perception of safety at gunung stong state park, kelantan darul naim
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment
granting_department	Faculty of Built Environment
publishDate	2012
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33754/1/NurhidayahHilmiMFAB2012.pdf
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Tourist's perception of safety at Gunung Stong State Park, Kelantan Darul Naim

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