“…In addition, as many scholars have observed in other studies, Baan Tawai respondents recognized the negative social impacts of tourism, such as increasing property prices (Akis et al, 1996;Korca, 1998;Walpole & Goodwin, 2001), changes in vocation from being farmers to tourism-related careers (Diagne, 2004;LaFlemme, 1979), and more litter and garbage in the village (Bastias- Pérez & Var, 1995;Green, 2005;Snaith & Haley, 1999;Teo, 1994;Williams & Lawson, 2001). It is interesting that although many areas worldwide find an increase in prostitution or sexual permissiveness, drug abuse, vandalism and burglary as a result of increased tourism (Bastias-Pérez & Var, 1995;Johnson et al, 1994;Lawson et al, 1998;Liu & Var, 1986;Liu et al, 1987;Mok et al, 1991;Sirakaya et al, 2002;Smith & Krannich, 1998;Teye et al, 2002), the majority of respondents at Baan Tawai did not. This is because their village has a long history of working in wood handicrafts and the skills had been passed on to each succeeding generation long before the village was developed as a tourist destination.…”