Taman Negara Pahang Case Study

This research aims to study all the relevant existing values in Taman Negara Pahang (TNP), which involves several stakeholders such as local community, indigenous community, local and international tourists and last but not least the park authority. There are two types of values that have been concerned in this study. The tangible values which regard towards economic perspective and the intangible values which are more related to recreational, cultural, educational, research and monitoring, artistic and aesthetic, and existence.
This dissertation is organized in six chapters. Chapter 1 includes the research background, research problem, study area, research objectives, research questions, significance and research constraints of this study.

Local people tend to take these opportunities to increase their profits from tourism businesses. Generally, people view the impacts of parks development more positively because of the economic opportunity even though they were aware of the importance of cultural and environmental values (Shuib, 1995). This has affected the other original or intangible values (cultural values and spiritual values) in the protected areas where they become less important among the local and indigenous

It has outstanding tourism resources that can attract tourists to visit the park including the scenic landscape of Mount Tahan which is the highest point of Peninsular Malaysia, the rare flora and fauna in TNP, the six available rivers namely Sungai Tahan, Sungai Tembeling, Sungai Keniam, Sungai Tenor, Sungai Perkai and Sungai Terengganare which are good fishing spots (Harman, 2013). TNP also has the world’s largest canopy walkway as the main attraction to tourists. From the tourism resources in the park, various activities are