Mohd Raziff Jamaluddin

Local community outlook on tourism development in Tioman Island

The tourism industry has been recognized as the symbol to help the local community especially in changing the economic and atmosphere due to the ability to generate income, employment as well improve the standard of living. The attitudes of the local community can directly affect the development of the tourism industry. Positive attitudes from the local residents help in boosting tourists’ satisfaction levels and contribute to the word-of-mouth promotion among international tourists. In order to ensure the success of the tourism planning, the involvement and the involvement of the local communities in the area is pertinent. This study endeavors on local community attitudes’ toward tourism development in Tioman Island. Local residents with personal benefit and positive perception of tourism development will support for future tourism development. However, the finding also revealed that the local community who perceived negative impact of tourism activities also supports the tourism development in the future due to the reliance on this sector as their main income. The role of perceived tourism impact as the moderator between the relationship between personal benefit from tourism and the future attitudes from tourism development become the contribution of this study

Performance evaluation of online discussion

Online discussion has proven to be a good platform for students to gain the ability to communicate, inspire, analyze, and slot in into social interaction indirectly. This study aimed to examine the relationship of posting components against level of thinking and solution to the issue. The online discussion was conducted over a month and 85 students registered for the subject were the respondents for this study. This study found out that length of the message has positive relationship with the level of thinking and solution to the problem but timeliness and expression has negative relationship with the level of thinking and solution to the problem.

Promoting E-commerce through E-learning

e-Learning has become a major tool to facilitate education. The education process becomes easier with the functions provided by e-Learning. UiTM has promoted e-Learning for educational purpose since 2005 to complement face-to-face classrooms teaching and learning. This survey exposed the students to the interactive learning by adopting course forum for students participation. The aim is to familiarize and encourage participation in i-learn. Students need to participate in e-Commerce forum where they need to advertise and sell products in the e-Commerce forum. The survey conducted for four months and found that students participation in the five parameters set by the instructor is quite satisfactory however most of the students still prefer face-to-face interactions for buying goods. Other than that, this survey recommend that the use of interactive learning must be promoted aggressively because students will use technology wisely if the right platform is provided to them.