The Development Guidelines of Tourism Management by Communities of Ban Tha Dee Mee, Chiang Khan District, Loei Province

Abstract

This article was conducted by implementing qualitative research method and aimed: 1) to study the context of Tha Dee Mee tourism; and 2) to study the development guidelines of the tourism management by communities of Ban Tha Dee Mee, Chiang Khan District, Loei Province. The target group for data collection consisted of 35 informants who were a villager headman, a group of tourism management by community, a group of souvenir makers, local wisdom philosophers, representatives from government sectors and representatives of the villagers. The research tools comprised interview, meeting and documentary review, whereas content analysis was used for data analysis. The results of the study were as follows.

1. Ban Tha Dee Mee is an old village where the villagers migrated from Vientiane, Laos P.D.R. The area was featured with tourism resources namely Phra Yai Skywalk, nature, and locally cultural arts including boat racing events, Chao Por Pak Huang Shrine, Karb Mark dish making group, community enterprise of fabric weaving group and agricultural product processing in community. The Tourism management was initially formed when the community development department started managing the village to be OTOP village of Nawatwiti in 2019 by assigning the community members to be the development leaders including village headman, and groups of agriculture and community enterprise. There was also tourism management development training for food interpreters and accommodations by apparently establishing a tourism group of Tha Dee Mee village.

2. The  development guidelines of the tourism managements of Tha Dee Mee village were: 1) establishment of tourism management group by community; 2) creation of commentator system by the staff from educational institutes or in other organizations; 3) building learning network with tourism area managed by neighboring communities; 4) organizing workshop activities; and 5) a field trip study at tourist attractions successfully managed by the community both in Loei Province and nearby provinces.