This article aims to study local community participation in agrotourism and propose guidelines to promote local community participation in developing agrotourism in Ban Mor Village, Sam Sung District, Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, which is an agricultural village based on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy = .33). The guidelines that were proposed to promote local community participation in the development of agrotourism included: 1) promoting agrotourism in the Ban Mor Village through advertising 2) improving local facilities to respond tourists' needs and expectation, 3) establishment of a local agricultural learning center 4) building agrotourism networks, and 5) promoting the roles of the young members of the community in agrotourism.
This article aims to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for tourism in the Roi Kaen Sarn Sin (RKSS) cluster, using a qualitative approach to consider religious tourism in northeastern Thailand. Semi-structured interviews were the main data collection tools, and key informants of this study included officers from both government and private sectors related to tourism in northeastern Thailand. The results found that religious tourism took place within this area a long time ago. Elements of religious tourism in the RKSS cluster include 1) attractions, 2) accessibility, 3) accommodations, 4) safety, 5) activities supporting tourism, and 6) social issues. Opportunities and weaknesses of the provincial clusters, from the point of view of religious tourism, can be classified into several issues, including infrastructure and transportation, tourism attractions, religious activities, networks, and local beliefs; the development strategies for increasing potential for religious tourism are 1) transportation coverage through public transport and 2) local sectors that keep area monastery histories.
The objectives of this study are to examine the motivation of tourists who came to visit Sakon Nakhon province and to study the guidelines of management strategy for cultural tourism in Sakon Nakhon province. In this paper, we used quantitative and qualitative methods by providing 800 questionnaires to Thais and foreign travelers, and we analyzed data using mean and standard deviation. In addition, we also used a focus group by inviting 20 experts involved in the tourism industry to discuss strategic management and analyzed the data using content and descriptive analysis. The results of this study show that Sakon Nakhon has several attractive places to motivate tourists to visit. The researchers recommend four strategic guidelines and eighteen management objectives to develop cultural tourism, and we also suggest three policy implementations for tourism development.
This articles aims to study tourists' opinions and tourists' demands for cultural tourism and guidelines to developing cultural tourism in Bueng Kan province, Thailand. This is a new Thai -Lao border province with the Mekong River as a natural boundary. The researchers applied Mix method. The results show that most tourists appreciate memories from the cultural tourism trip in Bueng Kan province and would like to learn more about the way of life of the local community. Regarding the demand for cultural tourism, overall, tourists' demands for cultural tourism in Bueng Kan province is at the high level. The guidelines to develop cultural tourism in Bueng Kan province, Thailand that were proposed included 1) improvement of the infrastructure 2) creating routes and activities based on local culture 3) establishing a tourists center of information 4) supporting homestay at the Cultural tourism destination.
Beach tourism is one of the tourism models that most partners realize to manage to its sustainability. Integration of thoughts for various sectors was also needed for a walk to success. This research, thus, sought for ways to investigate for proper beach tourism management model with certain component. Testing will be implemented in area along the gulf of Thailand which is known by the name "The Royal Coast". The mixed-methods design was employed for the study: focus group (n=88), policy meeting (n=29) and questionnaire (n=800). Both host whose stakeholders in public and privates business in the beach area and communities and guests or tourists were asked and discussed. The results from the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated that six components were the significant factors for sustainable beach management, yielding Chi-square =10.870 Chi-square/df = 1.812, df = 6, p = 0.092, GFI = 0.996, CFI = 0.993, RMR = 0.008, RMSEA = 0.032. The sustainable beach tourism included six components of management on marketing and promotion management, tourist attraction management, participation management, environmental, cultural and education management, process, plan and policy management and personnel management respectively. All six components was assigned and implemented for testing in sustaining beach tourism management on the Royal Coast.
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