Abstract:
The objectives of this study are 1) to study the tourism management of Ban Mai Market , problem and future of the travel trend 2) to study the role of various agencies inwhich supporting tourism management of the market 3) to propose the guidelines to improve the management based on the need of its community. The qualitative research has been done by physical surveying, observation by using participation and non participation process, and interview stakeholder with and without using questionnaire. From the study, it is found that the tourism management of Ban Mai market depend on 2 organizations having working together.The first one is Ban Mai market conservation club which has management by the board of its community and also responsible on tourism management and to coordinate with its community people and outside stakeholder.The second one is The Market Reguration Committee which has been responsible for vender registration, giving sale permits,allocating sale location,considering product and its price, giving the new vender to replace the old one and to solve the common problems in the market. The two community have been working together to set operating guidelines, activities and to corperate with other organization which participating the tourism management of Ban Mai Market. The most important organization are normaly the Municipalicy of Muang Chachoengsao and the Office of The Central Region no.8, of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. The other supporting organization are the Office of Chacheongsoa Province, the office of Prachinburi no.5 of the fine Art department and the education institutes. Most of the supports are public relations, marketing and event organizing for example. The problems of the management of this market are the role of each organization are not clearly specily, inadequate services to response the need of tourists, and the lack of academic research to support tourism development. The result of this research proposed guidelines so as to solve problem of tourism management in Ban mai market. They are 1) managing organization 2) improving infrastructure and facilities of the market 3) academic research to support local knowledge. All this improvement would lead to concern its local resource, to strengthen local economy for sustainable development so as to balance the community resource, economy and environment including the participation process in tourism management