Abstract:
This research aims to study and determine the characteristics of Thai travel romance as well as to study the techniques of presenting the account of facts on travelling documentary in the novels by studying the data analysis of 10 Thai travel romance novels during the years 1949 up to the present. The results of the research show that the travel romance in the samples possess the complete proper elements of novel and also have values of the novel, which give pleasure to readers and present the themes of the novels. Besides, the writers also relate some elements of the novels to the travelling. In the plots, the authors place the importance of the characters' traveling very highly. The travelling of the main characters are consistent with the proceeding of the story and the conflict issue in the story would be solved when the travelling ends. The themes of this group of novels intend to present the importance of love and family life. Those themes will be achieved by the experiences of the characters and by the plots that are proceeded. The leading characters consist of various types, both round characters and flat characters or both static or dynamic characters. While the settings of the travel romance are also very important elements because they are from the real places that the authors want to present to the readers. Those information make the readers interested in the places. Besides, the settings also support the love story of the characters to be stronger and more concentrated. The dialogues of the story, not only help proceed the love story of the novels, but also have a special function to present the travelling information more clearly to the readers. On the aspect of writing, it is found that the authors use both the form of writing common novels, and the form of letter writing. The authors are able to transform the information of the story in a natural way. The real important technique is the mix of documentary information on the travelling through the narrator in the form of conversation and describing the scenes of the stories. Some travel romance novels also use footnotes to present additional travelling information from the contents of the novels. Whereas for, the language usage techniques, the authors use narration or descriptive narration to transform the travelling documentary information to the readers, so as to see it more clearly. The titles of some novels are consistent with the travelling in the stories, or with the contents or the plots or the characters. Apart from this, it is also found that some parts of the travel romance have the pictures of the real places taken during the time of travelling to illustrate the novels, so that the readers could see the pictures of the travelling more vividly, as well as to add credit to the travelling information in the novels.