Chaiwatchara Promjittiphong. Foreigner tourist satisfaction on homestay services in Royal Project Development Center Teen-Tok, Chiang Mai province. Master's Degree(Environmental Planning for Community and Rural Development). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2005.
Foreigner tourist satisfaction on homestay services in Royal Project Development Center Teen-Tok, Chiang Mai province
Abstract:
The objective of this research was to study tourist satisfaction with Homestay services in the Royal Project Development Center Teen Tok, Chiang Mai Province. Questionnaires were used as the major tool for data collection from tourists. They were distributed among a sample of 161 tourists. Furthermore, in-depth interviews were employed to collect additional information from private staff and mainly state officials in the local area. The collected data were then quantitatively processed using the commercial software package SPSS for Windows version 10.0. The statistics used included percentage, minimum, maximum, arithmetic average, and standard deviation, as well as analytical tools such as variance analysis, multiple classification analysis, and descriptive quality analysis. It was found that foreign tourists were very satisfied with Homestay services in the Royal Project Development Center and its attitude to natural resources and various services. With statistical significance, the affecting factor on foreign tourist satisfaction for natural resources were gender and education level while the affecting factor on foreign tourist satisfaction for various services was gender. The results from this research suggest that there should be more information from involved units regarding public relations. This would affect the tourism by increasing, for example, tourists from Europe and Thailand, when they know about Homestay tourism. There should be coordination with nearby communities to build a network of tourism in the area. Because each community has nearby territory the natural resources would be beneficial to tourism. Tourism management regarding providing services and information to the tourists should be developed, especially the ability of the villagers to communicate with tourists. However, most importantly, there should be action
on various regulations which have been formulated for the preservation of tourism. All tourists should be encouraged to act appropriately when they travel to maintain and preserve natural resources including beautiful ceremonies in the communities. "