Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Geographical Investigation - Tourism

Announcements
1.       Hand up report book
2.       AEM (Advanced Elective Module) starts on
a.        15th  June – Aerospace and Healthcare
b.      22nd June – Tourism

Geographical Investigation (Tourism)
-          Hypothesis : To prove correct or wrong

Group 1 Members: Eunice, Sijie, Xinyi
1.       Task/ How did you do it?
a.       Conduct environmental bipolar survey to determine resident perception of impact of tourism on kampong glam
b.      Ask 1 tourist, 2 shop keepers and 3 locals
2.       Results? More positive
3.       Are there any problems? Locals will side positive? Are locals bias?
4.       How can you improve this? Ask balanced number of shop keepers and locals
Group 2 Members: Chunkit, Xuanqi, Amanda, Simon
1.       Task/ How did you do it? Interview 8 tourists by using quantitative (numbers) survey and random sampling method
2.       Results? More from Europe and oceania, found arab st through internet. Came to arab st to shop, interesting landmark – selling variety of items
3.       Are there any problems? A lot of them are being interviewed
4.       How can you improve this? Go to a different location, use different survey, use online survey (use IPad?) incentives???
Group 3 Members: Danial, Haikal, Ahmad, Hakeem, Jarell
1.       Task/ How did you do it? Interview 3 shop owners in Kampung Glam. Scout (walk up and down to determine nobody is inside)
2.       Results? Most of the tourist that spends are from Japan, Africa, Korea, Europe
3.       Are there any problems? Rude shop owners (we don’t want to entertain you), some cannot speak English, negative body language, gestures
4.       How can you improve this? Skip and go on, have survey in different language,  buy something from them?
Group 4 Members: Liyi, Gigi, Ameer, Ammar
1.       Task/ How did you do it?
a.       The further the distance from arab st, the lesser number of tourist
b.      Went to two different places, start at same time (20mins), use clicker to count number tourist
2.       Results? Arab st – 85 , haji - 80
3.       Are there any problems? liyi started at 3.26pm , ameer started at 3.28pm. how did u know ur counting tourist?
4.       How can you improve this? Call and start tog, find a specific group of tourist eg Europeans,
Group 5 Members: junhao, Aloysius, zhiqin, ben
1.       Task/ How did you do it? To draw a landuse survey. Locate the street, walk down the lane, check the type of shops, draw, legend
2.       Results? Mostly clothings and food
3.       Are there any problems? Vacant spaces, not sure what the shop is selling, two storeys,
4.       How can you improve this? Ask shop owner? Legend – more categories, broader categories, another page for 2nd storey




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