Empowering Orang Asli Women in Tourism Industry: A Case Study in Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia

Fatan Hamamah Yahya

2018

Abstract

Women, particularly those of the Orang Asli community, without a doubt play an important role in the family. These duties and roles include organising household affairs, giving birth and raising children, tending to the house, preparing meals for the family and sorting out their children’s school affairs. However, their roles are not limited to duties or daily routines that are done only at home. In fact, women (especially Orang Asli women), are capable of far more activities that can empower them, especially in the Lenggong’s tourism industry. The empowerment of Orang Asli women can be seen from the aspect of skills that they already have which can be turned into tourism products, as well as to increase their source of income in supplementing their family expenses. Among the skills that can be highlighted are making handicrafts, being tourist guides, promoting traditional cuisine and dances as well as finding and brewing wild plant roots for medicinal purposes. The women of the Orang Asli who originally only served as housewives, can now change their family’s way of life by doing all sorts of activities which can generate new sources of income, by venturing into activities that can be used as attractions and new tourism product markets, especially in Lenggong.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yahya F. (2018). Empowering Orang Asli Women in Tourism Industry: A Case Study in Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR, ISBN 978-989-758-437-4, pages 348-353. DOI: 10.5220/0008885003480353

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icmr18,
author={Fatan Hamamah Yahya},
title={Empowering Orang Asli Women in Tourism Industry: A Case Study in Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR,},
year={2018},
pages={348-353},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008885003480353},
isbn={978-989-758-437-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research - Volume 1: ICMR,
TI - Empowering Orang Asli Women in Tourism Industry: A Case Study in Lenggong Valley, Perak, Malaysia
SN - 978-989-758-437-4
AU - Yahya F.
PY - 2018
SP - 348
EP - 353
DO - 10.5220/0008885003480353