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Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain

Diving tourism, commonly referred to as scuba diving tourism, has emerged as a recreational activity that enables people to explore underwater surroundings and more carefully see the grandeur of aquatic life. Nevertheless, while diving tourism has played a substantial part in expanding people's...

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Main Authors: Awang Ali, Quratul Ain Syahirah, Belly, Tressy, Zulkurnain, Muhammad Zulhilmi
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2023
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Aquatic sports. Water sports
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87740/1/87740.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87740/
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spelling my.uitm.ir.877402023-12-18T04:49:30Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87740/ Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain jthca Awang Ali, Quratul Ain Syahirah Belly, Tressy Zulkurnain, Muhammad Zulhilmi Aquatic sports. Water sports Diving tourism, commonly referred to as scuba diving tourism, has emerged as a recreational activity that enables people to explore underwater surroundings and more carefully see the grandeur of aquatic life. Nevertheless, while diving tourism has played a substantial part in expanding people's awareness of the importance of marine environmental preservation, there are unethical dive practises, such as harming or destroying coral reefs, taking marine creatures as souvenirs, and improper trash disposal, that may have a detrimental effect on the marine ecosystem. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the factors causing coral reef destruction as a result of activities, particularly among inexperienced divers that involves in Discover Scuba Diving (DSD). Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method and The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach were used to analyse the previous studies based on the keyword search. Findings shows that, poor planning, lack of education/knowledge/information, inexperience divers are being ignorant, irresponsible behaviour, impact of diving equipment (e.g., fins, tanks), camera used, buoyancy control, incorrect weight and cognitive (e.g., stress, anxiety) are among the factors the deteriorate the environment of coral reefs. Implications are also discussed in this study. Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2023-06 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87740/1/87740.pdf Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain. (2023) Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Culinary Arts <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Tourism,_Hospitality_and_Culinary_Arts/>, 15 (1). pp. 270-285. ISSN 1985-8914 ; 2590-3837 https://www.jthca.org/
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topic Aquatic sports. Water sports
spellingShingle Aquatic sports. Water sports
Awang Ali, Quratul Ain Syahirah
Belly, Tressy
Zulkurnain, Muhammad Zulhilmi
Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain
description Diving tourism, commonly referred to as scuba diving tourism, has emerged as a recreational activity that enables people to explore underwater surroundings and more carefully see the grandeur of aquatic life. Nevertheless, while diving tourism has played a substantial part in expanding people's awareness of the importance of marine environmental preservation, there are unethical dive practises, such as harming or destroying coral reefs, taking marine creatures as souvenirs, and improper trash disposal, that may have a detrimental effect on the marine ecosystem. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the factors causing coral reef destruction as a result of activities, particularly among inexperienced divers that involves in Discover Scuba Diving (DSD). Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method and The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach were used to analyse the previous studies based on the keyword search. Findings shows that, poor planning, lack of education/knowledge/information, inexperience divers are being ignorant, irresponsible behaviour, impact of diving equipment (e.g., fins, tanks), camera used, buoyancy control, incorrect weight and cognitive (e.g., stress, anxiety) are among the factors the deteriorate the environment of coral reefs. Implications are also discussed in this study.
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author Awang Ali, Quratul Ain Syahirah
Belly, Tressy
Zulkurnain, Muhammad Zulhilmi
author_facet Awang Ali, Quratul Ain Syahirah
Belly, Tressy
Zulkurnain, Muhammad Zulhilmi
author_sort Awang Ali, Quratul Ain Syahirah
title Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain
title_short Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain
title_full Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain
title_fullStr Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain
title_full_unstemmed Systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / Quratul Ain Syahirah Awang Ali, Tressy Belly and Muhammad Zulhilmi Zulkurnain
title_sort systematic literature review of marine lives: the “thwack” of inexperience divers towards coral reefs / quratul ain syahirah awang ali, tressy belly and muhammad zulhilmi zulkurnain
publisher Faculty of Hotel & Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA
publishDate 2023
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87740/1/87740.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/87740/
https://www.jthca.org/
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