Abstract:
Nowadays, souvenirs are important to the tourism industry, both economically and socially. Souvenirs are considered as an important part of the travel experience. Tourists usually return home with souvenirs to preserve and commemorate such experiences. However, different nationalities of tourists prefer different types of souvenirs.This research investigated the creative marketing strategy level on Thai souvenirs through the perception of border country tourists from Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam, and the causal factors affecting the creative marketing strategy on souvenirs for tourism in Thailand. The data was statistically analyzed by structural equation model analysis, SEM. For conclusion, the statistical tool was a questionnaire by collecting data from 1,132 tourists of border country tourists from Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam. The data analysis was statistically valued of frequency, distribution, percentage, arithmetic mean , standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis.
The research findings indicated that creative marketing strategy on Thailand tourism souvenirs was practically suitable at high level ( =3.64), which was Identity, Image and Atmosphere. Price and marketing promotion was practically suitable at moderate level. The creative marketing strategy model for souvenir perception of border country tourists from Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam was created consistently and fitly with empirical data and the developed model had the ability to predict at good and acceptable level at 88.6%. The causal relationship was at a statistical significance of 0.05,which showed that tourist attraction acknowledgement, information acquirement and souvenir categories from Thailand tourism were correlated with creative marketing strategy on Thailand tourism souvenirs.