Malaysia has five Marine Parks with a total of 42 islands which are the Payar Island Marine Park (4 islands), Redang Island Marine Park (9 islands), Tioman Island Marine Park (7 islands), Mersing Marine Park (13 islands) and Labuan Marine Park (3 islands). All these Marine Parks are developed as tourist destinations. This is because tourism is not regarded as destructive towards the marine parks' marine ecology, if they are sustainably managed. Moreover, tourism activities are also income generating to those locals who are now prohibited from carrying out their main source of income activity, which is fishing. The level of tourism sector's development at the marine parks is very encouraging. This is because almost all marine parks are fully provided with various facilities for the tourists such as resorts, chalets, restaurants, souvenir shops, jetties and other facilities 1 . Thus, the influx of tourists from both local and abroad can be observed yearly. However of late the robust development of the tourism industry and the high number of tourist