Satisfaction Of local community and tourist at Tanjung Emas, Muar for potential ecotourism

Ecotourism plays an important role in the community development because the community is
considered had been exposed to the knowledge and essentially understand the importance of
the incomes from tourism to sustain the country’s economic and the community
well
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being
(Nurhazani and Kalsom, 2006).
This study is predominantly to assess the resource condition
of Tanjung Emas, and examine the issues related to the visitors’ impact, ecology, culture and
social of Tanjung Emas. The objectives are to identify the s
atisfaction levels of the visitors
towards the facilities in Tanjung Emas, the possibility development of the Tanjung Emas to
be develop as an ecotourism spot and also to suggest the effective recommendations for
minimizing the visitors’ impact to the plac
e. There are three methods had been used in these
studies which were direct observation, interview and questionnaire. The satisfaction of the
facilities at Tanjung Emas among the localities had showed the significant value which is
0.036, p < 0.05; whereas
the satisfaction of the tourists had showed non
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significant value,
0.910 in which p > 0.05.