Community Based Ecotourism In Annah Rais Village, Sarawak, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Sue kwan Lien, 梁淑君
• Other Authors: 江明親
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5pdf3z

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 文創產業國際藝術碩士學位學程 === 104 === Ecotourism is a subset of nature based tourism. Especially to tourists who enjoy wide range of recreational and leisure activities, including involving themselves in activities to conserve and sustain the natural resources, as well as giving benefit to the local communities. Moreover, community based ecotourism (CBET) is a subset of ecotourism that emphasizes the central involvement and empowerment of communities to utilize natural, cultural and historic assets for tourism as well as nature conservation. CBET plans had been successful in many places such as Australia, Fiji where the government provides support for the local communities to be involves in tourism planning and preservation plans. Starting from 1980s, writers who are interested into the headhunting culture, Bidayuh culture and orang utan, had visited the tribe and wrote articles about their experiences; Thus, increasing the number of visitors to Annah Rais Village. However, the opening of these protected places to visitor had cause security issues and big changes in culture due to the influence from these foreign visitors. In addition, agriculture development had greatly affected the surrounded environment. Notably, the reduction of orang utan which became a main discussion on the wildlife protection. Thus, Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP- EAGA) sub regional cooperation framework has identified CBET as an important development activity that can contribute to poverty reduction, natural recourse conservation, and sustaining the traditional and livelihoods of local communities. Through researching, the MOTAC have suggested the Annah Rais Village to the Joint Tourism Development Cluster (JTDC) which is an organization under BIMP-EAGA. Both MOTAC and BIMP-EAGA are part of the CBET strategy covering 2010-2015, supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The support includes coverage on technical support for nature resources preservation, infrastructure and enhance human resources, community and private sector participation. The purpose of this research is to examine the long term strategy of CBET in Annah Rais Village to achieve the goal to take CBET in BMIP-EAGA forward to 2020.