Tourism is one of the largest and important economic activities in most countries around the world including Malaysia. Tourism is known as one of the fastest growing global industry as mentioned by World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. According to Hui, Wan and Ho (2007), tourism industry will not only give benefit to the industry itself but also to the other sector such as retail industry, construction industry and transportation industry. Malaysian government has included tourism industry as one of the 12 National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) in Tenth Malaysia Plan that will help our country’s transformation into high income nation by 2020. Prime Minister, Dato’ Sri Najib said that tourism industry is now at the 6th largest contributor to
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This is all because of they are afraid about their safety being in our country. Even though there are not many tourist feel this way but still Malaysia have to give full attention on safety and security in their tourism industry. Besides that, safety and security are also vital to providing quality in tourism which incorporate principles of safety and security. These principles of safety and security are becoming an overriding objective of tourism destinations. This thing will requires tourism officials at every level to coordinate their efforts with the media, the tourism operational sector, other government officials, nongovernmental organizations and also interested citizens’ groups (Almer, Bentley, …show more content…
In addition, crimes also can leave a negative impact on our economic aspect rather than psychological aspects. Malaysia has to deal with this issue to make sure that tourists are not fear to visit our country. In Malaysia, Bukit Bintang has been known as one of the 11 crime hotspot in Kuala Lumpur (Bernama, 2009). Even though crime does not recognize individual, foreign tourist could be an easy prey for criminals. We all know how traffic condition or environment condition in Kuala Lumpur but still Kuala Lumpur is the major place that many tourists concentrated for visiting or holiday. The high level of heavy traffic and crowd situation could affect safety and security of the tourist that came for
This is all because of they are afraid about their safety being in our country. Even though there are not many tourist feel this way but still Malaysia have to give full attention on safety and security in their tourism industry. Besides that, safety and security are also vital to providing quality in tourism which incorporate principles of safety and security. These principles of safety and security are becoming an overriding objective of tourism destinations. This thing will requires tourism officials at every level to coordinate their efforts with the media, the tourism operational sector, other government officials, nongovernmental organizations and also interested citizens’ groups (Almer, Bentley, …show more content…
In addition, crimes also can leave a negative impact on our economic aspect rather than psychological aspects. Malaysia has to deal with this issue to make sure that tourists are not fear to visit our country. In Malaysia, Bukit Bintang has been known as one of the 11 crime hotspot in Kuala Lumpur (Bernama, 2009). Even though crime does not recognize individual, foreign tourist could be an easy prey for criminals. We all know how traffic condition or environment condition in Kuala Lumpur but still Kuala Lumpur is the major place that many tourists concentrated for visiting or holiday. The high level of heavy traffic and crowd situation could affect safety and security of the tourist that came for