By Assoc. Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Mohd Hazizan bin Mohd Hashim
INITIATED IN 2018 as a collaboration between Universiti Sains Malaysia’s School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering and FYS Marketing, a granite quarry stone operator in Bukit Mertajam, “Green-Quarry EduTourism” takes advantage of Penang’s standing as one of the most popular tourist spots in Malaysia to promote quarries as a vibrant and unique tourism product. One might not naturally think about it this way, but conceived as an edutourism and geotourism product, quarries are places where people can observe and…