Sustainable Tourism Management of National Park in Ranong Province

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to 1) study and compare the management of National Park in Ranong province, 2) study the factors affecting  the sustainable tourism  of National Park in Ranong Province and 3) propose approach for the development of sustainable tourism management of National Park in in Ranong province. The approach  of this research  involved mixed methods. The quantitative research was conducted by studying a sample of 290 National Parks among Ranong Province staff. The tool used for data collection was a 5 level rating scale questionnaire at a reliability of 0.9.6 The statistics used to analyze the data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, One-Way ANOVA and the Pearson correlation method. The qualitative research was conducted by in-depth interviews from the 8 key informant, selected by purposive samplings  and the data were analyzed by content analysis.

            The research findings were as follows: 1) The level of the management process of  National Park in Ranong Province was the highest. 2) The level of the sustainable tourism management of National Park in  Ranong  Province  was moderate. 3) The comparative result on sustainable tourism management of National Park in in Ranong  Province  in terms of sexes, ages, levels of education, and work positions as difference found that sexes, ages, levels of education, and positions  there were not different, in terms of ages found that there were different in organizing and staffing as statistically significance at 0.05 and in terms of levels of education found that there were different in planning as statistically significance at 0.05 4) the management process of  National  Park in Ranong Province had a positive relationships on the sustainable tourism management at a significant level of less than 0.05, with The exception of planning 5) The guidelines for sustainable tourism management of National Park in  Ranong Province were: should raise awareness, knowledge, and understanding of staff in the knowledge and understanding of sustainable tourism management, participate in the formulation of the vision, planning, checking and action,  the implementation of the plan, The head has leadership and resource mobilization  from the community, government agencies, private sectors.