The Study of Backpacking Tourists’ Behavior for the Rail Transportation Routes in Thailand

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Wirat Butwapee
Sukanda Klinkhajon
Rachadaporn Pinrattananont

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This research study aims to Study the behavior of backpacker tourists along the route of Thailand's rail transport development plan and study the impact of factors affecting the backpackers' satisfaction along the route of Thailand's rail transport development plan. The target population is backpackers who using the State Railway of Thailand, and were selected 400 backpackers were selected through the convenience random sampling method. The structured questionnaire was used to collect needed data. Descriptive Statistics, and inferential statistics with a structural equation model were used for data analysis at the significance level at 0.05. The results revealed that The results of the analysis of the developed structural equation model are consistent with the empirical data which were collected from the target samples were tested with the same covariance, which passed the standard statistical criteria of 2 = 68.733, df = 17, p-value = 0.001, GFI = 0.960, CFI = 0.987 and RMSEA = 0.087. It could be explained that tourists' perceptions of information had no direct affect on their satisfaction by using railway services, which the size of influence was 0.008 (p = 0.368). However, it found that there was an indirect influence through backpackers’ behavior at significance level 0.01 with a coefficient value that reflected the size of indirect influence at 0.58. Whereas, the backpackers’ behavior had a positive direct effect on the backpackers’satisfaction who using the railway service
at significance level 0.01 (p = 0.000) with an effect size coefficient of 0.99. Moreover, the backpackers’ information perception had a positive direct effect on the backpackers’ behavior at significance level 0.01 (p = 0.000) with an effect size coefficient of 0.99.

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Butwapee, W., Klinkhajon, S., & Pinrattananont, R. (2024). The Study of Backpacking Tourists’ Behavior for the Rail Transportation Routes in Thailand. RMUTI Journal Humanities and Social Sciences, 11(1), 109–120. Retrieved from https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/RMUTI_SS/article/view/266287
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