Factors Affecting toward Public Participation in Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism of the Communities around Si-Thep Ancient, Phetchabun Province
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This study’s purpose of this quantitative research was to investigate constructs of factors affecting public participation in cultural heritage tourism and to develop a model of the causal factor affecting public participation in cultural heritage tourism of the communities around Si-Thep Ancient, Phetchabun Province. There are five factors which are used to study: Tourism impact awareness, Tourism knowledge and understanding, local government policy, Localism, and public participation in sustainable cultural tourism. This structural equation model was used to define the populations of 1,301 households in five communities around Si-Thep ancient. In addition, the sampling indicated 510 households. In order to analyze, the statistic of skewness, kurtosis, and confirmation factor analysis (CFA) are revealed. The results also revealed that structural equation model had a significant direct effected and indirect effected toward public participation in sustainable cultural tourism under mediating effect of localism as (χ2/df = 1.150, p-value = 0.007 GFI = 0.915, AGFI = 0.890, CFI = 0.987, MRM = 0.054, RMSEA = 0.021) at the significance level of 0.05. Furthermore, the study results could be used for the government as a policy driver and the local community to strengthen the public participation. This will lead to planning for sustainable cultural tourism development.
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