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Prospect and Challenges of Nautical Tourism in Kapas Island Terengganu
Izzun Affiq Bin Mamat
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammed Ismail Russtam Suhrab
Bachelor of Science (Nautical Science and Maritime Transport)
School of Ocean Engineering
izzunafiq@gmail.com
This research presents the prospect and challenges of nautical tourism in Kapas
Island that located in district of Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu. The issue in this
research the number of tourist visiting Kuala Terengganu dropped significantly. The
objective of this research is to identify the nautical tourism activities that available in
Kapas Island, assess the challenges faced by the activities provider in term of nautical
tourism sector and give the suggestion to improve the prospect of nautical tourism.
In order to rank these challenges, the questionnaire survey is distributed and the
target populations are the service provider such as resort owner and owner of water
sport centre. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is use to set priorities, make the best
decision and consequent ranking of the challenges faced by the service provider. The
findings of this research maybe would be helpful to the society and other future
research related to nautical tourism industry. Besides that, this form of sustainable
tourism maybe can create many new opportunities as well as bringing about a
refocusing of existing mature tourism operations.
Keywords – Nautical Tourism, Kapas Island, and AHP
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