The impact of tourism development in Tioman Island / Nurliana Dahban @ Fauzi and Nur Asmiza Bahari

Research on the concept of resident’s perception in tourism development has begun in the developed world. It has confirmed that the application of this concept is going through with limitations in growing countries so do with the island destinations. Hence, this research illustrates the impact of tourism development in Tioman Island, Malaysia. This research describes and evaluates the range of possible design solutions has generated. This study is carry out based on research objectives which is to examine the factors (economic, environmental and social) that contribute to tourism development in Tioman Island. Furthermore, to examine the most influential factor that contributes to tourism development in Tioman Island. A lack of to this problem was identified and alternative solutions were subsequently designed. This study adopted secondary data for argumentative research method. All qualitative or quantitative study related to this topic were analyzed. The secondary data collection techniques allow researchers to systematically collect information about object of research study which is factors contributing to tourism developments in Tioman Island. That have been identify in findings and discussions, this study found that environmental factor is very important to be noticed by everyone especially tour operators, tourism agencies, authorities and stakeholder in the tourism industry. This is due to environment especially on the island’s ecosystem are important in the development of tourism destination in Malaysia.