TOURISM AND ITS IMPACTS TO THE SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGES: A CASE STUDY OF THE KHAOSAN ROAD, BANGKOK
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This article is an attempt to study the impacts of tourism on the local community and cultural values in Khaosan Road exploring both positive and negative tourism impacts as well as the physical influences causing social stress in the area for readers who are interested in tourism and its contribution to the sociocultural changes in order to call attention to the awareness of people towards the following issue.
Khaosan Road, a street in central Bangkok by Chaophraya River at the northern side of Rattanakosin Area, translates as "milled rice road" and is an attribution to the historical role of this street in the rice trade. For past two centuries the street was a quiet residential area with the local population. After tourism becomes popular, the tourists looked for accommodations, the very first business was a small hotel serving the civil servants from other provinces. The guest house business generated profit and motivated locals to turn their houses to small inns and taverns. The increasing numbers of backpackers since then have affected the socio-culture and physical environment of the Khaosan Road. Direct and indirect relations with tourists and interaction with the tourism industry has brought changes in value systems and behavior of the local community.
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1. กองบรรณาธิการสงวนสิทธิ์ในการพิจารณาและตัดสินการตีพิมพ์บทความในวารสาร
2. บทความทุกเรื่องจะได้รับการตรวจสอบทางวิชาการโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ แต่ข้อความและเนื้อหาในบทความที่ตีพิมพ์เป็นความรับผิดชอบของผู้เขียนแต่เพียงผู้เดียว มิใช่ความคิดเห็นและความรับผิดชอบของมหาวิทยาลัยศรีปทุม
3. การคัดลอกอ้างอิงต้องดำเนินการตามการปฏิบัติในหมู่นักวิชาการโดยทั่วไป และสอดคล้องกับกฎหมายที่เกี่ยวข้อง
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