ANDROID BASED MOBILE APPLICATION FOR HIKING IN SABAH, MALAYSIA: SabaHike

Tourism is defined as individual or group travelling and staying in places outside of one’s usual environment not for more than one consecutive year for leisure. Over the past few decades, tourism has grown and emerged with various diversifications to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. These days, the business volume of tourism may even outrank big industries such as oil exports, automobile or food products. Thus, tourism has become one of the primary players in the international commerce and being the sources of income for many developing countries. Consequently, with global spread tourism has produced economic and employment benefits through chained sectors such as construction to telecommunications. As such, there are many branches of tourism available that varies from medical tourism to space tourism that is available as of today, although this research would focus on mountain tourism in Malaysia. Unfortunately, there is no mobile application currently available to offer services to these outdoor enthusiasts to expand their hiking experience with correct information available just at the tip of their fingers. The objective of this research is therefore to fill the gap mentioned earlier by implementing a mobile application based on hiking for Sabah, Malaysia. Additionally it also provides a platform for companies to promote their hiking products and brand. The scope would focus on internal and external tourists involve in extreme tourism activities in Malaysia. The research method used will cover the qualitative method by posting surveys via the target groups in social medias. Eventually, a mobile application that have all the information for hiking activities in Malaysia would be delivered as a proof of concept

Sustainable Livelihoods

Written as a national policy paper for the Rural Secretariat, this paper provides a succinct and clear overview of several rural trends, challenges, strategies, and policy options for increasing the sustainability of rural communities in Canada. While framed by the focus on sustainable livelihoods, its reach—conceptually and with reference to practice—is relevant to several of the key research interests of the BALTA Social Economy Research Alliance. This paper is an excellent framework and discussion from which to critically reflect on and integrate the learning thus far and prepare for the rich contributions in sections four and five

Green knowledge exchange Turkey-The Netherlands : priority issues identified for cooperation in the field of biodiversity protection and conservation : interviews with experts from Governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations based in Turkey and based in The Netherlands

As a consequence of its geographical location Turkey is very rich in biodiversity; its flora is richest, both in terms of overall plant diversity and level of endemism compared to Europe, North Africa, or countries in the Middle East. This report gives an overview of important biodiversity issues in Turkey and priorities for cooperation selected by Turkish and Dutch parties. The project aimed to facilitate the set up of a long-term cooperation between Turkey and The Netherlands in a structural ‘Green Knowledge Exchange’ between officials and experts of the two countries. Reports of interviews with (non)governmental organizations (Netherlands and Turkey) form the backbone of this publication. It also provides a SWOT analysis and comparison of the information obtained from Turkish side and the information provided by organisations based in The Netherlands

ANDROID BASED MOBILE APPLICATION FOR HIKING IN SABAH, MALAYSIA: SabaHike

Tourism is defined as individual or group travelling and staying in places outside of one’s usual environment not for more than one consecutive year for leisure. Over the past few decades, tourism has grown and emerged with various diversifications to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. These days, the business volume of tourism may even outrank big industries such as oil exports, automobile or food products. Thus, tourism has become one of the primary players in the international commerce and being the sources of income for many developing countries. Consequently, with global spread tourism has produced economic and employment benefits through chained sectors such as construction to telecommunications. As such, there are many branches of tourism available that varies from medical tourism to space tourism that is available as of today, although this research would focus on mountain tourism in Malaysia. Unfortunately, there is no mobile application currently available to offer services to these outdoor enthusiasts to expand their hiking experience with correct information available just at the tip of their fingers. The objective of this research is therefore to fill the gap mentioned earlier by implementing a mobile application based on hiking for Sabah, Malaysia. Additionally it also provides a platform for companies to promote their hiking products and brand. The scope would focus on internal and external tourists involve in extreme tourism activities in Malaysia. The research method used will cover the qualitative method by posting surveys via the target groups in social medias. Eventually, a mobile application that have all the information for hiking activities in Malaysia would be delivered as a proof of concept

New Trends in Development of Services in the Modern Economy

The services sector strategic development unites a multitude of economic and managerial aspects and is one of the most important problems of economic management. Many researches devoted to this industry study are available. Most of them are performed in the traditional aspect of the voluminous calendar approach to strategic management, characteristic of the national scientific school. Such an approach seems archaic, forming false strategic benchmarks. The services sector is of special scientific interest in this context due to the fact that the social production structure to the services development model attraction in many countries suggests transition to postindustrial economy type where the services sector is a system-supporting sector of the economy. Actively influencing the economy, the services sector in the developed countries dominates in the GDP formation, primary capital accumulation, labor, households final consumption and, finally, citizens comfort of living. However, a clear understanding of the services sector as a hyper-sector permeating all spheres of human activity has not yet been fully developed, although interest in this issue continues to grow among many authors. Target of strategic management of the industry development setting requires substantive content and the services sector target value assessment

Review of research on smart tourism at home and abroad

Smart tourism not only is highly valued by the academic circles, but also has begun to practice in some areas and obtained good achievements. This article first expounds the origin of smart tourism; then discuss the current research progress and shortcomings of smart tourism from the conceptual connection, theory foundation and research methods, construction framework, technical support, application and evaluation system, etc. according to the content of the literature; at last, summarizes the theory structure of smart tourism research, revalue the position of smart tourism and propose some advice for future development