A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE OF TOURISTS IN CLIMATE CHANGE, TOURISM SUPPLY, AND DECISION MAKING TO TRAVEL AMONG TOURISTS IN KOTA KINABALU, SABAH

Abstract

This paper provides an insight to investigate the relationship between the knowledge and factors of climate change, tourism supply, and decision making of the tourists that travelled to the State of Kota Kinabalu. Climate change is defined as a pattern of weather change through a periodic
time that ranges in decades. Literature review suggested that climate-changed locations impacted the arrival of the tourists. The affected elements are shortening duration of snow cover, reduction of the number of days with snowfall, glacier retreat. The dramatic changes lead to the reduction of recreational activities such as skiing, glacier hiking, and ice tubing, that all of these come with higher maintenance cost. Apart from it, the melting of permafrost destabilizes the ground conditions, making activities of Alpanism such as hiking, walking, rock climbing routes becoming more dangerous of rockfall to the tourists and even to the local settlements. Climate change would have four impacts on tourism development: direct impacts, indirect and long-term impact, lifestyle change, and induced impacts. Hence, this study attempted to study the relationship amongst the variables.