Home⇛Business Research Journal⇛vol. 6 no. 1 (2020)

Tourist Motivation And Satisfaction On Adventure Tourism In Five Fingers Cove

Marrynol S. Beltran | Hlie B. Sanchez | Carolina Ditan

 

Abstract:

Five Fingers Cove, Mariveles Bataan is named as such by a local because the Five Fingers coves look like fingers from a bird’s eye view. This study focused on tourist motivation and satisfaction on Adventure tourism in Five Fingers Cove, Mariveles Bataan. The purpose of this study was to help the management of Five Fingers Cove to collect opinion from its tourist and consider the results of this study to improve tourist motivation and satisfaction. The researchers used quantitative type and descriptive correlational to research. This includes thirty five (35) respondents. 24 were females and 11 were males. The respondents assessment in terms of motivation and satisfaction on Adventure tourism in Five Fingers Cove resulted to satisfactory.



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