Sustaining local community economy through tourism: Melaka UNESCO world heritage city

• Main Authors: Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir, Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Bachok, Syahriah, Ibrahim, Mansor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/44973/1/mariana_-syakir_tourism_melaka__procedia_environmental_sciences.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/44973/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878029615002662

Tourism has been one of the largest contributors towards Malaysian GDP over the last three decades. In essence, Malaysia generated 1,795,500 employments in 2013 of which some 6.5% of the total employment was created in the tourism sector. The study deals with extraction of tourists’ expenditure in f...