Visitors’ Attachment to Historic Tourism Places in Kuala Lumpur City Centre towards Sustainable Urban Regeneration

Authors

  • Norsidah Ujang Universiti Putra Malaysia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9792-8865
  • Amine Moulay Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Malaysia
  • Juriah Zakaria Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i9.1521

Keywords:

Urban Regeneration, Urban Tourism, Place Attachment

Abstract

This paper discusses visitors' attachment to historic tourism places in the city of Kuala Lumpur in the context of urban regeneration. The study found that despite having a short duration of visits, the visitors' functional and emotional attachment to attractions was fairly strong. Future regeneration of the places has been linked to improvement of the physical setting and preservation of historic places. The visitors identified strongly with the cultural image and the need to experience the places with comfort. Sustainable urban regeneration within the tourism context demands a good understanding of place attachment reflected in the relationship between people and the destinations that go beyond the attractive image of tourism places.

Keywords: urban regeneration; urban tourism; place attachment

eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i9.1521

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Published

2018-12-02

How to Cite

Ujang, N., Moulay, A., & Zakaria, J. (2018). Visitors’ Attachment to Historic Tourism Places in Kuala Lumpur City Centre towards Sustainable Urban Regeneration. Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 3(9), 165–172. https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v3i9.1521