Santubong National Park Essay

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There are many strengths of this Santubong National Park that helps in ecotourism industry in Malaysia, especially in Sarawak. The beauty of the mountain landscape that we can observe from the summit is really amazing and breathtaking. Other than that, there is presence of large variety of flora and fauna species that we can find along the hiking trails that we can never find in other type of forests but this tropical rainforest. For examples are the Nepethes tentaculata (pitcher plant) at summit of Santubong, Gesneriaceae (Gesneriad plant),Didymocarpus sp. and Asia Fairy-Bluebird sp.
We can also find three beautiful and exciting waterfalls where you can swim happily as the waters are very clear yet chiiling and really refreshing. Mount Santubong is rich of natural, …show more content…

The first weakness is there is very lack of promotion of the National Park at international and national level. This has cause the national park no profit since there is not so many tourists come to visit. Very little people actually know the existence of this place since not many advertisement or promotion regarding this beautiful Mount Santubong National Park. Other than that, there is also lack of an appropriate information about the usability of the park. The true potential of the national park is not planned properly and lack of a plan for enhancement in terms of activities for the tourists. Not so much activities can actually be done here except hiking and picnicking. Another weakness is there is difficulty of access by public transportations especially for the tourists. This resulting in tourists must rent a car or go with tour guides to visit Santubong. The problem might caused inconvinience and hassles for the tourists. Next, it is quite dissapointing that this park is only dominated by day visitors where this do not really help in generating income for the

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