Abstract:
The research aimed to observe knowledge and attitude of undergraduate
tourism management strdents towards marine tourism resource conservation, to
compare different means of the knowledge and attitude between sex, age educational
level, hometown, grade point average, marine tourism information received,
experience in marine tourism interested in environmental conservation, and
educational institution, and to determine correlation coefficient of the knowledge and
attitude towards marine tourism resource conservation.
The sample of thes study was 342 students of Rajabhat institute and other state
universities, who were selected by stratified random sampling. Data were
administered by self questionnaires and analyzed by percentage, mean, standard
deviation, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and Pearson product moment
correlation.
The results showed that the mean score of students ¸s knowledge in marine
tourism resource conservation was moderate level but the mean score of their attitude
was high level. Their knowledges had different with their ages significantly at level
0.05. Their attitude had different with the educational level and educational
institution significantly at level 0.05. Knowledge correlated positively with the
attitude at level 0.01.
Suggestions from this study were to give guidelines on marine tourism
resources conservation in a guidebook for students including invitation to the
authority involved to provide more information on resources conservation. Besides,
arrangement should be made for conservation activities, so that the students could
have direct experience in marine tourism resources conservation.