Megalithic Stone Heritage Trail Mapping Using GIS as Tourism Product for Cultural Sustainability in Tambunan

Kong Teck Sieng, Oliver Valentine Eboy (), Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, Baszley Bee Basrah Bee, Awangku Hassanal Bahar Pengiran Bagul and Zainuddin Baco
Additional contact information
Kong Teck Sieng: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia
Oliver Valentine Eboy: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia
Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan: Borneo Institute for Indigenous Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia
Baszley Bee Basrah Bee: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia
Awangku Hassanal Bahar Pengiran Bagul: Faculty of Business, Entrepeneur and Accountants, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia
Zainuddin Baco: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu 88400, Malaysia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: Heritage trails are an effective way to preserve cultural sustainability. Nowadays, heritage trails have been widely developed as tourism products either domestically or abroad. Megalithic stones are an ancient tradition of high value that has interesting functions and backgrounds. Moderni-zation with infrastutural development, and changes in religion in society have caused the mega-lithic stone tradition to be less practiced and increasingly declining. One of the effective ways to preserve megalithic stones from further decline is by building heritage trails as a tourism product. Many megalithic stones are located in sloping areas. In this study, least-cost path analysis (LCPA) in GIS applications was used to identify cost-effective and sloping routes to produce heritage trails. Study data were obtained from fieldwork in Tambunan. The benefits of this study provide ex-posure to the outside world about the megalithic stone tradition, and determine the appropriate routes to develop heritage trails in the District, and assist in the economy of the local population.

Keywords: heritage trails; megalithic stones; tourism; GIS; cultural sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/3714/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/3714/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:4:p:3714-:d:1071890

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().