Social Capital Management to Create Economic Opportunities Through Tourism Guidelines of Rimping Sub-District Community, Muang District, Lamphun Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) To present social capital linked to tourism in Rimping Subdistrict Community, Muang District, Lamphun Province.  And 2) To present social capital management that leads to economic opportunity creation through the tourism approach of Rimping Sub-district Community, Muang District, Lamphun Province. Qualitative research, a semi-structured interview was used as a tool, the research targets were: Rimping Subdistrict Municipality Administrators, community leaders, people, senior citizens clubs, occupational groups, community enterprise groups, and entrepreneurs in Rimping Subdistrict. Snowball sampling is selected to obtain the desired target audience from the sample’s recommendations. analyzed content-oriented data for presenting research results.

The results showed that 1) The Rimping sub-district community has resource capital that facilitates tourism and creates economic opportunities from tourism activities of tourists which were divided into areas of wisdom, Buddhist sites and faith, agricultural area, architectural and building areas, and learning areas. All of which have potentialitive and can be linked as a route for tourism activities. 2) The management of social capital that can create economic opportunities through tourism can be achieved by creating awareness, access, and offering models of social capital to communities, agencies, as well as tourists to generate interest and join various activities and create the circulation of the economy within the community according to the roles of each sector.