Perception of Tourists Towards Challenges Heritage Building Conservation

Nurhanisah Hazarudin,Radzi Ismail,Fazdliel Aswad Ibrahim,Wan Nadzri Osman

doi:10.32861/jssr.spi6.1145.1150

Abstract

Building conservation is the key challenges to the heritage building. The main attractive element for tourist to visit heritage building is condition of building. This paper attempt to identifying the challenges in heritage building conservation. Quantitative method was used in this study which involved tourist as respondents. This study was conducted in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. Total numbers of returned questionnaires are 127. Descriptive analysis was used in this study to know the level of challenges in heritage building conservation. The results found that there are four challenges aspects; consist of building aspect, technicality aspect, social aspect and environment aspect. The first ranked of challenges in heritage building conservation scope is social aspect. Based on tourist perception, they believed social aspect become the main challenge in building conservation. Followed by building aspect, environment aspect and technical aspect. In social aspect, the results show that low involvement of young people with the heritage and conservation activity, public participation are still low with the heritage, program and lack of public awareness on heritage building conservation. These challenges resolve by increase the awareness and involvement the public people. Further research need to emphasis on how to increase public awareness in heritage building conservation.

Highlights

Nowadays, the number of peopletravelling to acquire knowledge about other culture is growing
This changing pattern is used by Kelantan to offer Kelantan International Kite Festival (KIKF) as a tourism attraction, other than the otherunique culture, traditional arts,and crafts.KIKF is an annual kitetheme festival that aims to promote and preserve kite as traditional games that truly represent local identities of Kelantan Malay (Mohd, 2011)
This study set out to create a discourse with the residents that reside within Geting beach to help better understand on their perception towards the impacts of KIKF

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Introduction

The number of peopletravelling to acquire knowledge about other culture is growing. It created an early perception about others culture and lead to the rise of experiential travel This process stimulates people to purchase a travel package around the world to experience the authenticity of cultural activities rather than just watch people in their social network visiting amazing cultural and heritage places around the globe. The above situation reflects the change in tourist behaviour pattern whereby tourists nowadays prefer authentic destinations that offer eternity experiences Moutinho (2016), as well as destinations that positively affected their social life (Mondal, 2015) This changing pattern is used by Kelantan to offer Kelantan International Kite Festival (KIKF) as a tourism attraction, other than the otherunique culture, traditional arts,and crafts.KIKF is an annual kitetheme festival that aims to promote and preserve kite as traditional games that truly represent local identities of Kelantan Malay (Mohd, 2011). The effort to promote and preserve these art and heritage resources is significant, as it does represent Kelantan Malay per say, but Malaysian heritage as a whole, as many forms of Malaysian heritage (such as kite playing, Malay crafts like painting, sculpture, pottery, woodcarving and so on) were originated from Kelantan (Shuaib, 2013)

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