Azizan Marzuki

PhD Research Student

Contact Details Office: Room 0106 Humanities Plaza Postal: School of Cultural Tourism, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100,Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: azizan.marzuki@flinders.edu.au Phone: (08) 8201 5307 Fax: (08) 8201 3407

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Urban & Regional Planning, University of Science Malaysia
• MSc In Planning, University of Science Malaysia

Positions Held / Academic Status

• PhD research student

Research Areas

• Thesis Title
  Sustainable Cultural Tourism: A study on Langkawi Island, Malaysia
• Thesis Supervisors
  • Dr Jane James
  • Prof Iain Hay
• Thesis Abstract
  The Tourism sector is expected to play an important role in the economic development in the third world countries. However, an issue arise from tourism activities to natural areas and local cultural also became a new challenge to be resolve. Natural areas and local cultural have a benefit for tourism development, and should have a special concern as long as to protect our local community from any impact and damage. As a result, this research is attempted to achieve the stated objectives:
  1. To establish and evaluate current destination in order to reduce negative impacts through identifying an impact happens due to tourism activities.
  2. To evaluate the tourists attraction from the local people, entrepreneur, decision-maker and also local and foreign tourists opinions or ideas.
  3. To identify a suitable sustainable cultural tourism strategy for tourism development in Langkawi Island.