Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic

Tourism plays an important role in Malaysia’s economic development and our government has put much efforts to promote and market tourism industry in Malaysia. According to The Annual of Malaysia Tourism Statistics 1997, number of group travel to Malaysia had significantly increase and this directly...

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Main Author: Low, Swee Foon
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Published: 1999
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description Tourism plays an important role in Malaysia’s economic development and our government has put much efforts to promote and market tourism industry in Malaysia. According to The Annual of Malaysia Tourism Statistics 1997, number of group travel to Malaysia had significantly increase and this directly lead to the increase in number of tour guide in our country. Thus, the purpose of this study is to understanding Malaysia tour guide’s performance and their characteristics to ensure that tourists meet their desired service during their trip in Malaysia. 129 questionnaires have been collected and SPSS software has been used to analysis the data. The results found that Malaysia’s tour guides have a good performance during the service encounter and exceed tourists’ desired service level. A comparison among tourists from North-America and Asia-Pacific in their perception of tour guide’s performance reveals that tourists from North-America have higher satisfaction in tour guide’s service encounter than those from Asia-Pacific. Besides that, a study on the tour guide’s characteristics also has been done and the result found that the best characteristics tour guides perform well is sights recommendations.
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spelling my.uum.etd-6272013-07-24T12:08:12Z https://etd.uum.edu.my/627/ Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic Low, Swee Foon G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism Tourism plays an important role in Malaysia’s economic development and our government has put much efforts to promote and market tourism industry in Malaysia. According to The Annual of Malaysia Tourism Statistics 1997, number of group travel to Malaysia had significantly increase and this directly lead to the increase in number of tour guide in our country. Thus, the purpose of this study is to understanding Malaysia tour guide’s performance and their characteristics to ensure that tourists meet their desired service during their trip in Malaysia. 129 questionnaires have been collected and SPSS software has been used to analysis the data. The results found that Malaysia’s tour guides have a good performance during the service encounter and exceed tourists’ desired service level. A comparison among tourists from North-America and Asia-Pacific in their perception of tour guide’s performance reveals that tourists from North-America have higher satisfaction in tour guide’s service encounter than those from Asia-Pacific. Besides that, a study on the tour guide’s characteristics also has been done and the result found that the best characteristics tour guides perform well is sights recommendations. 1999-06-07 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://etd.uum.edu.my/627/1/LOW_SWEE_FOON_-_Malaysia%27s_tour_guide%27s_perfomance_and_characteristics.pdf application/pdf en https://etd.uum.edu.my/627/2/1.LOW_SWEE_FOON_-_Malaysia%27s_tour_guide%27s_perfomance_and_characteristics.pdf Low, Swee Foon (1999) Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic. Masters thesis, Universiti Utara Malaysia.
spellingShingle G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism
Low, Swee Foon
Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic
title Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic
title_full Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic
title_fullStr Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic
title_full_unstemmed Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic
title_short Malaysia's Tour Guide's Performance and Characteristic
title_sort malaysia's tour guide's performance and characteristic
topic G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism
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