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Peters Robert Francis, . and Lim E. M., . The role of wildlife-viewing activity at Tabin Wildlife Reserve. pp. 29-41. ISSN 1823-3902
Abstract
The Tabin Wildlife Reserve is the only gazetted wildlife reserve in Sabah. For it to remain sustainable tourism is strategically taken as a socio-economy instrument with wildlife-viewing currently being the most important tourism activity. But tourism could also be used as a conservation instrument and a scientific research was carried out to determine the role of wildlife-viewing in conservation at the Reserve. This research comprises a social media content analysis on-site observations and interviews with the Reserves tourists and findings show that the Reserve has the basic facilities for tourists to view wildlife. Besides this the findings also show that the Reserves tourists were satisfied with their wildlife-viewing experiences. However the findings also reveal that the tourists viewing experiences and satisfactions did not influence their understanding of conservation. Instead the experiences and satisfactions prompted them to revisit and promote the destination to other people. These findings suggest the wildlife-viewing as an activity enforces conservation interest rather than increases conservation interest which brings the understanding that tourism is a selective conservation instrument.
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Abstract
The Tabin Wildlife Reserve is the only gazetted wildlife reserve in Sabah. For it to remain sustainable tourism is strategically taken as a socio-economy instrument with wildlife-viewing currently being the most important tourism activity. But tourism could also be used as a conservation instrument and a scientific research was carried out to determine the role of wildlife-viewing in conservation at the Reserve. This research comprises a social media content analysis on-site observations and interviews with the Reserves tourists and findings show that the Reserve has the basic facilities for tourists to view wildlife. Besides this the findings also show that the Reserves tourists were satisfied with their wildlife-viewing experiences. However the findings also reveal that the tourists viewing experiences and satisfactions did not influence their understanding of conservation. Instead the experiences and satisfactions prompted them to revisit and promote the destination to other people. These findings suggest the wildlife-viewing as an activity enforces conservation interest rather than increases conservation interest which brings the understanding that tourism is a selective conservation instrument.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| AGROVOC Term: | Wildlife parks |
| AGROVOC Term: | Leisure activities |
| AGROVOC Term: | Methods |
| AGROVOC Term: | Documentation |
| AGROVOC Term: | Interviews |
| AGROVOC Term: | Questionnaires |
| AGROVOC Term: | Tourism |
| AGROVOC Term: | facilities |
| AGROVOC Term: | Motivation |
| AGROVOC Term: | Wildlife conservation |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2025 06:29 |
| URI: | http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24662 |
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