TY - JOUR AU - Yusoff, Zeenat Begam AU - Zakariya, Khalilah AU - Che Haron, Roziha AU - Sapian, Abdul Razak AU - Asif , Nayeem AU - Shakir , Hayder Jawad PY - 2021/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Negative Impacts of Chalets Operation on the Peninsular Malaysia Marine Park Islands JF - Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal JA - E-BPJ VL - 6 IS - 18 SE - blank DO - 10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.2953 UR - https://ebpj.e-iph.co.uk/index.php/EBProceedings/article/view/2953 SP - 211-217 AB - <p><a style="cursor: pointer;" href="https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog?doi=10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.2953&amp;domain=ebpj.e-iph.co.uk&amp;uri_scheme=http%3A&amp;cm_version=v2.0" data-target="crossmark"><img src="https://ebpj.e-iph.co.uk/xmark.jpg" alt="" /> </a></p><p>The popularity of marine tourism put intense pressure on the island's environment. Limited studies were conducted to determine the negative impacts caused by chalets operation. Study aim is to investigate the adverse effects caused by the chalet’s operation on the Tioman and Perhentian Island. The objectives are to identify operation activities and the negative impact caused by the operation. The study was conducted by adopting qualitative method. The findings indicate solid waste disposal, groundwater extraction, and sewage disposal are destroying the marine environment in many ways. Several recommendations were provided to reduce the negative impacts.</p><p>Keywords: Chalet operation; Negative impacts; Island environment; Marine tourism</p><p><em>eISSN: 2398-4287</em><em>© 2021. 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/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning &amp; Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.</em></p><p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.2953</p> ER -