Abstract:
The objectives of this research were: 1) to develop criteria for assessing
gastronomic tourism management using document research, in-depth interviews with nine
experts, real-time Delphi techniques with 18 experts; to prioritize criteria and indicators
with analytical hierarchy process (AHP) with six experts; 2) to develop an online
gastronomic tourism management assessment program using the PHP programming
language; 3) to compare the assessment results of gastronomic tourism management of
general community tourist attractions with the community tourist attractions that had
received the 13th Thai Tourism Awards for the year 2021, 15 cases per group. Man-Whitney
U test statistics were used to analyze the assessment results.
The results were as follows:
1. The development of gastronomic tourism management assessment criteria
consisted of 10 criteria with 36 indicators, and 111 considered criteria, with 10 criteria as
follows: : 1) food product criteria; 2) criteria for the quality of service according to the way
of local communities; 3) criteria for tourist attractions; 4) cleanliness and hygiene safety
criteria in gastronomic tourism; 5) market promotion and information criteria; 6)
environmental criteria; 7) economic criteria; 8) human resource criteria; 9) community
cooperation criteria and networks; and 10) criteria for food tourism activities.
2. The developed online gastronomic tourism management assessment program
was found suitable for use at a very good level (M = 4.70, SD = 0.50).
3. The comparison of assessment results of gastronomic tourism management of
general community tourist attractions with the community tourist attractions that had
received the 13th Thai Tourism Awards for the year 2021 revealed a statistically significant
difference at the .01 level.