Tourism Destination Categorization and Creating Tourism Routes of Creative Cultural Tourism, Manorom District, Chainat Province

Abstract

The objectives of this study aim to survey, comply, categorize and create a creative cultural tourism route in Manorom district Chainat province. This research is conducted by using qualitative methods; participation action research in community, in-depth interviews, non-participant observation, destination observation and analyzing document related to Manorom district, Chainat province. They have been analyzed by using Typological Analysis. The researchers have investigated 44 tourism destinations and found that there are 36 tourism destinations can be developed to be creative cultural tourism destinations of Manorom district, Chainat province. They can be taxonomized by creative cultural tourism into 4 categories which are: 1) Historical and historical sign post has 6 destinations, 2) Arts, handy craft, sculpture, painting, stucco and carve has 3 destinations, 3) Religious including with rituals has 10 destinations, and 4) local wisdom identity has 17 destinations. Furthermore, with these 36 cultural tourism destinations, 3 tourism routes can be created which are: 1) creative cultural historical tourism destinations route, 2) creative cultural agriculture tourism destinations route and 3) creative cultural festival tourism destinations route.