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Kuala Lumpur As An Islamic City Tourism Destination: The Influence of Place Attractiveness and Experience Quality on Place Attachment

Nur Wafaa Abdullah Shaimi, Ahmad Azmi Mohd. Ariffin

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARAFMS/v14-i1/19847

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Global Islamic tourism is experiencing considerable expansion due to the growing Muslim population. This study specifically addresses the issue of how to build a strong emotional attachment to Kuala Lumpur to ensure that Kuala Lumpur consistently remains the destination of choice among Muslim tourists. This article begins with a systematic review, synthesis, and integration of existing knowledge on the role of place attachment and its theoretical background, emphasising the importance of psychological processes in explaining the relationship between place attractiveness, experience quality and place attachment. This research contributes to knowledge theoretically by arguing that the fusion of Islamic and conventional tourism and the quality of experience in the context of Islamic urban tourism could enhance visitors' emotional attachment. The framework can also serve to stimulate new research can help destination managers address the key conventional issue of Malaysia's long-term competitiveness or sustainability in the Islamic tourism market in general, or Kuala Lumpur in particular, in the Asia-Pacific region.

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