Syed Muhammad Rafy Syed Jaafar

University of Technology Malaysia | UTM · Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Community-based tourism (CBT) is a growing niche market that has positively impacted many developing countries, including Malaysia. CBT in Malaysia is recognized as the Malaysian Homestay Experience Program (MHEP). Several previous studies have looked at stakeholder’s roles and contributions to the MHEP. However, there is a requirement to understan...

* Aims to harness the intellectual discourse between Islamic hospitality and western hospitality for the benefit of undergraduates, industry practitioners and academic literature.�* The research used exploratory content analysis of systematic qualitative review from approximately 102 selected references.�* This study consists of six sections, start...

This paper reviews the literature on distance decay in urban and rural tourism. Through a systematic literature review, this paper aims to understand the current state of knowledge regarding distance decay in tourism including (1) reveal the main topics and domains, (2) variables applied in past studies, while simultaneously distinguishing them in...

Purpose This paper aims to capture real-time images of tourists during their visitation. This effort is to clarify a debate among scholars that there is a lack of current effort to genuinely represent an accurate image of the tourist experience during their visit. Previous studies on destination image focused on measuring and successfully capturing...

As the growing research interest and discussion on social network analysis associated with tourism flows, this paper reviewed 31 studies focused on tourism flows with social network analysis in the past ten years. To ensure the accuracy of the literature review, a systematic quantitative literature review with Preferred Reporting Items for Systemat...

Rail sometimes serves mainly as a transportation corridor connecting rural areas, or urban settings and green strips. However, the rise in the tourism industry in a developed country has increased the popularity of trails used in recreation. Apart from that, rail travel can be experienced as an enhancement of travel especially the onboard journey....

The ageing population is the crucial phenomenon that has led to the new market segment in tourism known as 'senior tourists.' A senior tourist is determined as an older traveller or grey tourist. The number of elderly keeps growing throughout time; hence, grey tourists will be relevant preferences, differing from the younger tourists. This paper ai...

Purpose The paper aims to comprehensively use the knowledge of tourist spatial behaviour to improve World Heritage Site (WHS) management. Efficient heritage management can be achieved if critical aspects such as tourist spatial activities were better and comprehensively understood, primarily at the micro-level. Inaccurate information on these essen...

Purpose – There are masses of studies over Islamic hotel, Sharia compliance hotel, Muslim Friendly Accommodation, halal hotel, haram hotel, halal tourism, Islamic tourism, Muslim Friendly Tourism and so forth. Almost all studies are focusing on accommodation and foods segment of halal or sharia compliance. However, few studies discussed the Islamic...

They are contemplative supplication, standard prayer practice by the Muslim group, and mindfulness meditation's daily routine (Munsoor & Munsoor, 2017), (Munsoor & Sa’ari, 2017). Those activities promote the health and well-being of neuronal regions in the brain. Also, quieting exercise reduces tension and anxiety (Alkusayer, 2018). The strength of...

Purpose – Numerous studies have examined the impact of government taxation policy in Peninsular Malaysia covering major urban cities, yet the study almost unavailable in Borneo. This article aims to explore the government tax execution impact to the middle-income household in Borneo, a native of Sabah, Malaysia. The statistics revealed, Sabah state...

Melaka WHS has inherited an outstanding universal value (OUV) that are listed as a World Heritage Site that must be properly managed. Stakeholders and agencies that manage a WHS are faced with a major challenge. In particular, making decisions for Melaka WHS is very challenging. WHS is a complex site where the management of the area requires the co...

Transgenerational entrepreneurship is the new theoretical perspective that introducing the family capability to transfer entrepreneurship for generations. This paper investigates the relationship between family business, entrepreneurship and the rural economy. 18 entrepreneurial families in Langkawi island were selected because this community capab...

The population today have immersed in mobile technology as ICTs is seen as capable in supplementing human social and psychological experience. Similarly, city visitors often perceived mobile technology as an inevitable partner in facilitating space consumption of an unfamiliar environment. Especially in urban setting, great incursion of technology...

Small Tourism Firms (STFs) has been acknowledged by scholars as one of the main features for tourism development especially in the area that received rapid urbanization. Knowledge on the influences of urban morphology with the specific references on tourism entrepreneurship had already started on the early 1980s. However, previous effort were only...

Previous studies on destination image have attempted to capture the differences in destination perceive image between the before and after trips. However, not much study has focused on the during-visit perceived image. This is crucial as to how the tourists actually experience the destination is when they actually visit the destination. The study a...

The family business is well known for the nepotism culture. Despite the fact of the point of view taking nepotism as negative cognition, it was discovered that family somehow acting as a backbone of the world economy and even indicate a resiliency to sustain the business venture and surviving for generations. This article discusses the family busin...

There had been increasing number of child-centred destination established in the city with the concept of edutainment as to fulfil the needs of alpha generation. Emphasizing on three combined elements of personalized learning, fun and play, edutainment concept is seen as new approach. This is to enhance lifelong learning for the future generation w...

Millennial is known to be the generations that strongly empowered by technologies that apparently had altered the pattern of their consumption habits to shape a new form of tourist market. The great incursion of technology on Millennial does not only mediates the experience formation at destination, instead provide added value and emotional impact...

This is a conceptual paper address the opportunity of flea market as a trend which begins to receive recognition as one of tourism product; or in other word so called flea market tourism. Nowadays, flea market capturing attention as one of the weekend activities for visitor and tourist either inbound or outbound region. One of the most establish fl...

The burgeoning popularity of World Heritage Sites (WHSs) has negatively impacted the sustainability of the historic environment of the sites due to the increasing number of tourist arrivals. Too many pressures from human activity, especially tourists could potentially damage the physical condition of the site and compromise its Outstanding Universa...

Destination image in Tourism Business District (TBD) especially in designated urban area often fail to capture real tourism image due to the nature that it was pre-conceive and portray from the view of supply side (or authorities and marketer). In other word, inaccurate image have been promoted from the view of supply-side rather than from demand-s...