Abstract:
The research aims 1) to study factors affected to tourists in making decision to visit local
markets which this study targets to promote health tourism in Nakhon Si Thammarat province and
2) to study the development of local markets in Nakhon Si Thammarat province. The population
and samples are tourists whose their destinations were for health tourism in Nakhon Si Thammarat
province, selected by purposive sampling and convenience sampling techniques. Descriptive
statistics were used to analyze data including frequency, percentage, and standard deviation as
well as inferential statistics analysis.
The results showed that factors affected to tourists in making decision to visit local markets
in Nakhon Si Thammarat province were herbal products for health and beauty. The development
of local markets to promote health tourism were travel services. In addition, the marketing
communication of local tourism to promote health tourism was to organize special events.