AREA - BASED TOUR PACKAGE OF PARTICIPATORY LEARNING TANKDAENG HISTORY, THAMOT DISTRICT, PHATTHALUNG PROVINCE

Abstract

The project title of area-based tour package of participatory learning Tankdaeng (red tank), Thamot district, Phatthalung province, there is an important objective to hold up of learning about body of knowledge the red tank history which has been researched by community to be more interesting. There are 5 provinces in the vicinity area ; Phatthalung province, Trang province, Satun province, Songkhla province and Nakhon-si-Thammarat province which have been areabased tour package of participatory learning Tankdaeng. It is learning behavior on acceptance of tourists data about the red tank event. On top of this, it is analyze all of the body of knowledge of local wisdom and to set a pattern of communication and area-based tour package of participatory , all this ways must base on the concept of procedure according to the requirement of the tourists targeted group.

So that, the methodology of research, it had been used both the questionnaire for the target group of deputy governor of a province (assistant district officer) of the 5 provinces in the utter award for the random sampling, there are 70 sampling sets and indepth interview with the 12 sampling who were got the affect from Tankdaeng event both directly and indirectly way, then take the body of knowledge and facts to public hereing for area-based tour package of participatory learning Tankdaeng history to be more interesting finally, there is an experi mentation to do the real tour the targeted group for 2 days and 1 night.

The results of studying found that the body of knowledge and the facts about Tankdaeng event is the phenomenon of violence by using force and weapon to solve the problem about the idealistic conflict between people and people. One side of people had been acted to protected by the government is security of state. The other side to be action by communist party of Thailand on behalf of people who want to have a change in Thai society. From this reason, whenever was doubt or to be scared someone who is a member or supporter of the opposite side, that person would be quashed, the strongest level of quash was burned that opposite side people in the red tank without any normal process of the stat judgement. Thus, the population of both side have been painful from this events, and they can not find any clearly evidence to show to the new generation or tourist, except some track of the military camp which located in the events and it was the beginning of Tankdaeng event occurred. There is also the monument of their relative who had died form that events, also that, this monument had been kept their relatives bones and they do merit for recalling to their relatives yearly who died.

However, the researchers to be proceeding of conference with people who involver the same route of Tankdaeng event and linked to other interesting tourist places, then they created 3 tourist programs for and set up the experimental tour follow the programs for 2 days 1 night. Finally, they had a conclusion that the target group experimental tour believe that these tourist programs could be induced to another guides or tourism company in order to persuade people who interested to have a various destination of sustainable tour by local people in each area can provide effective service to the tourist.

To get an advantage for future researching in the area of Phattalung province and nearby area , so that, the area based tour package program ought to linke the various destination together in order to raise the attract and entertainment to economical cost of management.