Sustainable tourism deforestation and growth: a case for Malaysia

Muzafar Shah Habibullah, . and Badariah Din, . and Choo Wei Chong, . and Tan Siow-Hooi, . Sustainable tourism deforestation and growth: a case for Malaysia. pp. 111-124. ISSN 1823-8556

Sustainable tourism perceived as a significant driver of income and creates job opportunities for local communities which as a result deliver significant incentives to preserve biodiversity. Preserving the quality of environment becomes the prime concern to attract more tourists which as a result increase funds for biodiversity conservation. Massive increase in tourism together with limited environmental resources capacity there is an urgent need to raise the awareness on the issue of biodiversity for tourism development. For the purpose of this research we examine the impact and economic growth on sustainable tourism for the period 1996 “ 2012 in Malaysia. For the purpose of this study we construct a Sustainable Tourism Index (STI) and employed few methods which are the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Canonical cointegrating regression (CCR) Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and Fully-Modified OLS (FMOLS) methods to test the long-run model of sustainable tourism. Generally our results found that economic growth and mitigating do contribute to sustainable tourism in Malaysia.

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Abstract

Sustainable tourism perceived as a significant driver of income and creates job opportunities for local communities which as a result deliver significant incentives to preserve biodiversity. Preserving the quality of environment becomes the prime concern to attract more tourists which as a result increase funds for biodiversity conservation. Massive increase in tourism together with limited environmental resources capacity there is an urgent need to raise the awareness on the issue of biodiversity for tourism development. For the purpose of this research we examine the impact and economic growth on sustainable tourism for the period 1996 “ 2012 in Malaysia. For the purpose of this study we construct a Sustainable Tourism Index (STI) and employed few methods which are the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Canonical cointegrating regression (CCR) Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and Fully-Modified OLS (FMOLS) methods to test the long-run model of sustainable tourism. Generally our results found that economic growth and mitigating do contribute to sustainable tourism in Malaysia.

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Item Type:	Article
AGROVOC Term:	Tourism
AGROVOC Term:	Sustainability
AGROVOC Term:	Models
AGROVOC Term:	Research
AGROVOC Term:	Methods
AGROVOC Term:	National income
AGROVOC Term:	Deforestation
AGROVOC Term:	Nature conservation
AGROVOC Term:	Economic growth
AGROVOC Term:	institutional aspects
Depositing User:	Mr. AFANDI ABDUL MALEK
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 00:53
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7896

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