Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia

The objective of this study is to find out the viability and potential of insects to be promoted as nature tourism product in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia. Gunung Ledang is a tourism site and people visit Gunung Ledang to enjoy the mountain ambience, trekking and climbing. To add on to existin...

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Main Authors:	Maryati Mohamed, David, Maricel C., Noor Asyikin Mohd Razali, Fadhil Ahmad Rajini
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10953/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10953/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10953/1/11704-31809-1-SM.pdf

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spelling	ukm-109532017-11-14T12:23:29Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10953/ Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia Maryati Mohamed, David, Maricel C. Noor Asyikin Mohd Razali, Fadhil Ahmad Rajini, The objective of this study is to find out the viability and potential of insects to be promoted as nature tourism product in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia. Gunung Ledang is a tourism site and people visit Gunung Ledang to enjoy the mountain ambience, trekking and climbing. To add on to existing tourism packages, a research to study on the potential of another form of nature-based tourism was carried out; which is called Entotourism as it focuses on using insects as an attraction. In this study point count method were used to observed and record all insects and survey questionnaires to find out whether entotourism have potential in Gunung Ledang. Presenting, eight common insects groups are frequently found are: ants, butterflies, termites, dragonflies, moths, beetles, cicadas and damselflies. This paper then discussed how tourists perceived insects. A total of 151 visitors responded to the questionnaires and results showed that 90.1% of tourist found insects as attractive and 88.7% would want to visit insects in a natural habitat. Meanwhile 83.4% agreed that entotourism has potential in Gunung Ledang and 86.8% stated that entotourism could attract international tourists to Malaysia. In addition, 60.9% of tourists are interested in entotourism and 72.2% would want to know more about insects. In this research we have shown that entotourism has potential to be developed at Gunung Ledang. Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10953/1/11704-31809-1-SM.pdf Maryati Mohamed, and David, Maricel C. and Noor Asyikin Mohd Razali, and Fadhil Ahmad Rajini, (2014) Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia. Serangga, 19 (2). pp. 1-29. ISSN 1394-5130 http://ejournal.ukm.my/serangga/issue/view/713/showToc
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description	The objective of this study is to find out the viability and potential of insects to be promoted as nature tourism product in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia. Gunung Ledang is a tourism site and people visit Gunung Ledang to enjoy the mountain ambience, trekking and climbing. To add on to existing tourism packages, a research to study on the potential of another form of nature-based tourism was carried out; which is called Entotourism as it focuses on using insects as an attraction. In this study point count method were used to observed and record all insects and survey questionnaires to find out whether entotourism have potential in Gunung Ledang. Presenting, eight common insects groups are frequently found are: ants, butterflies, termites, dragonflies, moths, beetles, cicadas and damselflies. This paper then discussed how tourists perceived insects. A total of 151 visitors responded to the questionnaires and results showed that 90.1% of tourist found insects as attractive and 88.7% would want to visit insects in a natural habitat. Meanwhile 83.4% agreed that entotourism has potential in Gunung Ledang and 86.8% stated that entotourism could attract international tourists to Malaysia. In addition, 60.9% of tourists are interested in entotourism and 72.2% would want to know more about insects. In this research we have shown that entotourism has potential to be developed at Gunung Ledang.
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author	Maryati Mohamed, David, Maricel C. Noor Asyikin Mohd Razali, Fadhil Ahmad Rajini,
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author_facet	Maryati Mohamed, David, Maricel C. Noor Asyikin Mohd Razali, Fadhil Ahmad Rajini,
author_sort	Maryati Mohamed,
title	Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia
title_short	Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia
title_full	Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia
title_sort	inventory of insects groups in gunung ledang, johor, malaysia
publisher	Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2014
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Inventory of insects groups in Gunung Ledang, Johor, Malaysia

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