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| Abstract : School of Housing, Building and Planning |
| The quality and quantity of lodging supply are critical factors in determining tourism success in any tourist
destinations. In Malaysia, the development of tourist accommodations has been based on speculation due to lack of
reliable data to support feasibility study and realistic trend analyses. One of the top destinations in Malaysia is
highland areas as tourists can enjoy beautiful scenery view from the hill top with its cold breezy fresh air. Over the
years, tourist arrivals to highland areas increased up near to 8 million tourists every year, forcing the potential
stakeholders to invest and develop more lodgings, facilities and proper infrastructures to cater tourists’ needs. In
achieving sustainability of tourism development, developers sometimes pay no heed to the planning guidelines as
they are too eager about profit and investment of the development. Carrying capacity is one of the planning tools to
measure sustainable development. Uncontrolled development has resulted an oversupply of lodging capacity;
particularly hotels in highland areas will cause long term impacts towards physical environments and inevitable
negative impacts on average occupancy rates. By referring to Genting Highland as a case study, this paper intends to
discuss the critical issues arise due to the oversupply of lodging in highland area. Spatial and non-spatial data on
lodging establishments were stored into integrated database of ESRI’s ArcView system which was further mapped as
data layers in Geographic Information System (GIS). Outcomes of this study will show distributional maps of
accommodations that existed since 1970s until present, which demonstrate the lodging evolution and development
patterns in the study area. This study provides tourism stakeholders, hotel entrepreneurs, tourism operators and
potential developers with insights into planning and developing new tourism accommodations based on the potential
development sites as well as promotes a better integration of spatial planning of tourism development in highland areas.
The quality and quantity of lodging supply are critical factors in determining tourism success in any tourist destinations. In Malaysia, the development of tourist accommodations has been based on speculation due to lack of reliable data to support feasibility study and realistic trend analyses. One of the top destinations in Malaysia is highland areas as tourists can enjoy beautiful scenery view from the hill top with its cold breezy fresh air. Over the years, tourist arrivals to highland areas increased up near to 8 million tourists every year, forcing the potential stakeholders to invest and develop more lodgings, facilities and proper infrastructures to cater tourists’ needs. In achieving sustainability of tourism development, developers sometimes pay no heed to the planning guidelines as they are too eager about profit and investment of the development. Carrying capacity is one of the planning tools to measure sustainable development. Uncontrolled development has resulted an oversupply of lodging capacity; particularly hotels in highland areas will cause long term impacts towards physical environments and inevitable negative impacts on average occupancy rates. By referring to Genting Highland as a case study, this paper intends to discuss the critical issues arise due to the oversupply of lodging in highland area. Spatial and non-spatial data on lodging establishments were stored into integrated database of ESRI’s ArcView system which was further mapped as data layers in Geographic Information System (GIS). Outcomes of this study will show distributional maps of accommodations that existed since 1970s until present, which demonstrate the lodging evolution and development patterns in the study area. This study provides tourism stakeholders, hotel entrepreneurs, tourism operators and potential developers with insights into planning and developing new tourism accommodations based on the potential development sites as well as promotes a better integration of spatial planning of tourism development in highland areas. The quality and quantity of lodging supply are critical factors in determining tourism success in any tourist destinations. In Malaysia, the development of tourist accommodations has been based on speculation due to lack of reliable data to support feasibility study and realistic trend analyses. One of the top destinations in Malaysia is highland areas as tourists can enjoy beautiful scenery view from the hill top with its cold breezy fresh air. Over the years, tourist arrivals to highland areas increased up near to 8 million tourists every year, forcing the potential stakeholders to invest and develop more lodgings, facilities and proper infrastructures to cater tourists’ needs. In achieving sustainability of tourism development, developers sometimes pay no heed to the planning guidelines as they are too eager about profit and investment of the development. Carrying capacity is one of the planning tools to measure sustainable development. Uncontrolled development has resulted an oversupply of lodging capacity; particularly hotels in highland areas will cause long term impacts towards physical environments and inevitable negative impacts on average occupancy rates. By referring to Genting Highland as a case study, this paper intends to discuss the critical issues arise due to the oversupply of lodging in highland area. Spatial and non-spatial data on lodging establishments were stored into integrated database of ESRI’s ArcView system which was further mapped as data layers in Geographic Information System (GIS). Outcomes of this study will show distributional maps of accommodations that existed since 1970s until present, which demonstrate the lodging evolution and development patterns in the study area. This study provides tourism stakeholders, hotel entrepreneurs, tourism operators and potential developers with insights into planning and developing new tourism accommodations based on the potential development sites as well as promotes a better integration of spatial planning of tourism development in highland areas. |
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