Theme : Fair and Vibrant Community

Linking Sustainable Tourism to Local Guide and Community

( Langkawi Tourism Sympoisum 2016 )

Presenter

Othman Bin Haji Ayeb ( Chairman Langkawi Tourist Guide Association 2016/17)

LUGG Geopark Ambassador 2016/17G

Linking Sustainable Tourism to Local Guide and Community

Linking/Link : relationship between two things

or ideas, in which one is caused or affected by the other.

Sustainable : an action or process that can continue or last for long time / generations

Tourism : the business of providing things / service to people to do / stay while on holiday

History of Tourism in Langkawi

1970 : Island of Legends/Myth

: 99 Magical Island

1987 : Langkawi Duty Free Island

1997 : Langkawi Eco Tourism Island

2007 : Langkawi Global Geopark

2012 : Naturally Langkawi

2015 : Langkawi Unesco Global Geopark

1997 Sustainable Eco-Tourism Practice

After 10 year Langkawi become Duty Free Island more nature recreational/eco activity been discover and offered especially to the international tourist that come to langkawi .

No more permit cut mangrove tree to produce charcoal at Kilim & Kisap Mangrove Reserved Area or logging activity in Langkawi lowland Rainforest area.

Kilim karst geoforest park

1997 mangrove tour jetty

2005 mangrove tour jetty

Linking Sustainable Tourism to Local Guide and Community

Local Guide : someone who lives in the place to take someone through or to a place that you know very well / showing them the way or area that you are talking about

Community : the people living in a particular or same area / a social group having common characteristic/interest

Langkawi Tourist Guide Association

• Officially form in 1992 - 8 members

• 2015/16 - 164 members

• Affiliates of MTGC

• 2015 Best NGO LANGKAWI TOURISM AWARDS,

• CONDUCT CTRE ,TRAINING FOR LTGA MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS TO UPDATE INFO ABOUT TOURISM INDUSTRY.

LANGKAWI JOURNEY (1991)

JOHOR BARU ( SOUTH)

( 900 KM) LOVE MOTHER NATURE

LANGKAWI ( NORTH)

JUNGLE GUIDE ( 1995-1999 )

ASSISTANT NATURE GUIDE ( 1997 ) ( JUNGLE TREK / NATURE WALK )

DATAI HOTEL

1997 International Champion Snake Handling & Tamming Competition ( 1999 World Guniess Book of Record)

Cobra Lifecycle Research at Langkawi Legend in The Park

“Stay 27 Days With 150 Venomous Cobra “

( 6th Dis. 2008 – 2nd Jan. 2009 )

Tun Mahathir ( Former Prime Minister ) Visit Langkawi Snake Sanctuary on 18 April 2001

MALAY SILAT DEMO LANGKAWI INTERNATIONAL

FESTIVAL OF ART 2002

Nature Guide Badge (2009)

LANGKAWI (KV) TOURIST GUIDE BADGE ( 2010 )

Outstanding Tourist Guide 2010/11

Langkawi Tourism Awards

National Geographic Documentary April 2010 ( The Andaman Hotel )

ASSIST UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER FOR FLORA FAUNA AND GEOLOGY STUDY IN

LANGKAWI ISLAND

PANEL FOR JAPANESS ECO -TOURISM TRAINING IN TOTTORI, JAPAN.

( 9-15 August 2014)

4th Asian Pacific Geoparks Network San’in Kaigan

Symposium (16-20 Sept 2015)

Panel for Role of Geo-Guides in Geoparks

Linking Sustainable Tourism to Local Guide and Community

Local Guide : someone who lives in the place to take someone through or to a place that you know very well / showing them the way or area that you are talking about

Community : the people living in a particular or same area / a social group having common characteristic/interest

LIFESTYLE & CULTURE TOUR

Kilim Geo-forest Park Discovery

SCHOOL CHILDREN NATURE PROGRAM WITH NGO ( MNS )

Geopark to School to Geopark

Asian Bird Fair 2014

COMMUNITY NATURE GUIDE

COURSE

Kilim Vegetations

Mangrove Eco-system

Mountain to Mangrove

Mangrove to The Sea

ECOTOURISM CHALLENGE

ECOTOURISM PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE

MANGROVE TOUR VS SAMPAN TOUR

Introduction of Sampan Tour 2013

Kubang Badak Bio Geo Site

Langkawi Geopark Guide Course

MY HAPPY FAMILY IN MOUNT RAYA RAINFOREST

In future our younger generation will not only be remembered for what we have created but also for what we have share and

refused to destroy.

Geology + Evergreen

Organization