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In ensuring the tourism destinations are successful and sustained, good quality environments are needed. Furthermore, without an attractive environment, there would be no tourism activities. Nevertheless, people generate and encompass many different types and patterns of changes in the environment and in turn, the environment can facilitate and even reduce stress to people. In this context, it is necessary to understand the perspective of tourists and knowing what they look for in a particular destination to obtain a better understanding of spatial tourism behaviour and areas of sustainable tourist destinations. The primary focus of this paper is to understand the perceptions, expectations, experiences and motivations that tourists have when they choose to visit specific tourist destinations. Based on the literature, identifying and examining the elements of tourist attractions, tourist preferences, the values which characterize the tourism demand and their relationship to the environment would highlight challenges as well as implications for tourism development especially in Malaysia. Keyword 280 INTRODUCTIONDespite a wide range of publications assessing the behaviour of tourists to various environmental settings, little is actually known about the complexity of demand responses towards different environments in the Malaysian context. The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss existing studies and provide a framework for a better understanding of tourist behaviour. The literature indicates that tourism has a significant effect on social life globally that can no longer be understood as merely what happens at the location of the destination, nor why tourists choose to do something different from their normal life and work. Tourism is a central part of understanding the social organization of destination and is no longer simply a specialist consumer product or mode of tourist consumption (Inglis, 2000;Framke, 2002). In other words, tourism is not only about supply and demand but also relates to the behaviour of tourists.The reasons for undertaking a literature review is because it provides as complete a list as possible especially all the published and unpublished studies relating to particular subject areas and towards the end, this study summarizes and draws conclusions about the relevant topic. This study undergone a few stages of the literature review. It began with an extensive review to establish the context and rationale for this study so as to confirm the choice of research focus or question. Then, the topic is refined by narrowing down the relevant and detailed literature. The topic is then divided into key themes to make it easier to look for information. This study also uses different journal articles and books to identify key authors and significant theories that relate to the themes and make them as a starting point. Finally, this study relates the findings from the literature and identifies the implications for this study.

The provision of open spaces within a residential development is often seen as unimportant. The Malaysian Government targeted to provide 2 hectares of open space per 1000 population to be achieved as a developed nation status by the year 2020. This vision can be seen as the Government attempt to ensure the sustainability of open spaces in Malaysia. The Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia (FDTCP) has produced a planning standard guideline to supervise the implementation of the open space policy in Malaysia. According to FDTCP; until December 2009, Malaysia has achieved a percentage of 1.19 hectares of open space per 1000 population. Achieving the standard requires commitment of local authorities to implement the open space policy. However, the adoption of open spaces policy differs among local authorities, from a simplistic general approach of land ratio techniques to an ergonomics method. The paper examines  the  local allocation practices using 5 different approaches and it  argues that implementation of open space by local planning practices requires the knowledge of and understanding by planning profession towards a long term sustainable  green objectives.

Soil is a fundamental resource with its value vital to the world’s ecosystem. Due to the fact that soil is one of the bases of all terrestrial life, humans cannot survive without it. However, soil erosion has jeopardized soil sustainability and affected the environmental quality, leaving a bad impact if these issues were not tackled at an earlier phase. Many research has been done to predict soil erosion susceptibility areas using different methods. This research aims to classify the contributing factors of soil erosion according to the risk and generate a soil erosion risk prediction map in Cameron Highlands. Thus, this research focuses on a knowledge-driven method that uses Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique to achieve the objectives. This technique consists of weighing the factors adopted by comparing pairs of factors that control erosion in this area through experts' opinions. 15 factors have been chosen to build the prediction map. Result shows that rainfall erosivity is the main factor contributing to soil erosion in Cameron Highlands which is 0.110, followed by land use (0.095), slope steepness (0.089), soil texture (0.079), NDVI (0.079), TWI (0.072), slope length (0.065), slope aspect (0.064), slope altitude (0.062), SPI (0.061), lithology (0.060), slope curvature (0.054), drainage density (0.049), distance to road (0.029) and distance to stream (0.025). The west part of the study area was exposed to a high risk of soil erosion. This research will give the decision-makers, policymakers and planners insight into minimizing the soil erosion problem and suggest better precautions and solutions to overcome this severe environmental problem in the more advanced phase.

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