Author: Kannapa Pongponrat
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss. no.RD-07-01
Year: 2007
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2007
Examination Committee: Soparth Pongquan (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Willi Zimmermann(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries with a still greater potential for, growth. Nevertheless, it can create many problems in regions that lack a clear strategy of tourism development. In Thailand, tourism is an economic activity that plays a vital role in socioeconomic development. Tourism on the island of Koh Samui, the study area, has significant effects on the local community. The island has faced a multitude of problems caused by an increase in tourism coupled with a lack of appropriate plans and strategies. To ameliorate the negative impacts of increasing visitors, a community participation approach has been applied in response to local problems and needs in tourism development with the aim of creating long term sustainability. In general, this research aims to develop a community participatory planning framework for local tourism development in the South of Thailand. The specific objectives of the research were to study the community participation approach and its techniques in local tourism planning to examine the magnitude and intensity of people’s participation in local tourism planning to assess the benefits gained by local people from their participation in local tourism planning to obtain people’s feedback and satisfaction level on community participation in the local tourism planning process to identify factors affecting community participation in local tourism planning and identify problems and potentials and to formulate an appropriate strategy to strengthen community participation in local tourism planning. The research selected three different initiated groups of community participation in local tourism development in Koh Samui including Tambon Municipality initiated group (TMIG) which launched by local government, community-based group (CBG) executed by native-Samui people, and private sector initiated group (PSIG) which organized by a combination of both native-Samui people and foreigners who ran their business in the community. These three mentioned initiated groups were exp
Scholarship Donor(s): Royal Thai Government (RTG); King Pradjadhipok’s Institute; Austria Scholarship
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctoral of Philosophy in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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