Development Guidelines of Interpretive Signs for Self-Guided Mangrove Nature Trails: A Case Study of The King's Royally Initiated Laem Phak Bia Environmental Research and Development Project

Abstract

The King's Royally Initiated Laem Phak Bia Environmental Research and Development Project has visitors increase gradually. Nowadays, interpretative signs of LERD project are damaged and dilapidated. It caused uninterested by visitors. Therefore, this research has purpose of study about the levels of visitors satisfactions of present interpretive signs and the model for interpretative signs of LERD project. This research has collected samples by using questionnaire from 150 samples and use Purposive Sampling method.   

The results revealed that the sample group has the level of satisfaction of present interpretive signs average medium levels and the level of satisfaction of the model for interpretative sign average the most high levels. Development guidelines of interpretive signs for Mangrove Nature Trails of LERD project.The interpretive signs should have got 15 signs. Each interpretive signs should have distance approximately 50 meters. The topic font should have size approximately 4-4.5 centimeters and the content font should have size approximately 1-1.5 centimeters. The writing on the interpretive signs should use words about 50-200 words and separate not more than 2 paragraphs. The color of word and background of the interpretive signs should be blended with nature, clearly readable and avoid using technical terms.