Model of analyzing creative agricultural tourism behavior: A case study of Bang Bai Mai Pracharat floating market, Bang Bai Mai district Muang district Surat Thani province.
Abstract:
Creative agricultural tourism is another form of tourism that has a distinctive feature
that allows tourists to experience the natural environment, the way of life of agriculture that
combines various activities, as well as making tourists visit the agricultural community for
learning. and to study and gain experience and knowledge in the field of agriculture which will
bring income to the community and improve the well-being of the people in the community.
Bang Bai Mai Sub-district community operates the Pracharat Bang Bai Mai Floating Market in
the form of agro-tourism. For almost 5 years, in which many tourists come to travel each
week, but found that the current model of agricultural tourism in the floating market is not
able to support enough tourists and still lacks appropriateness for some groups of tourists.
The objectives of this study were 1) to study the concept and model of creative
agricultural tourism management, 2) to study the factors affecting the behavior of creative
agricultural tourism: a case study of Pracharath Bang Bai Mai Floating Market, Bang Bai Mai Subdistrict, Mueang District, Province, 3) to study tourism strategies and community strengths
affecting creative agricultural tourism behavior: a case study of Pracharath Bang Bai Mai Floating
Market, Bang Bai Mai Sub-district, Mueang District, Surat Thani Province, 4) to study the
behavior tourists and create a model to analyze creative agricultural tourism behavior, a case
study of Pracharath Bang Bai Mai Floating Market, Bang Bai Mai Sub-district, Mueang District,
Surat Thani Province and 5) to propose a model for creative agricultural tourism management
for Pracharath Bang Bai Mai Floating Market, Bang Bai Sub-district, Muang District, Surat Thani
Province.
คThe results showed that the creative agricultural tourism management model at
Pracharat Floating Market was still in line with the needs and behaviors of tourists that had
not changed much from the original because the context of the area of the community was
limited in the distance of the village, with a large distance, it is difficult to bring tourists to
travel in each area and difficult to organize activities continuously. There are few people who
will carry on the knowledge of local wisdom. The community is unable to organize
community-based learning activities effectively. Most of the activities are focused on training
rather than experiential learning. Individual factors, economic factors, social/cultural factors,
technology/innovation factors, public relations factors and tourism infrastructure factors were
found that gender and educational level had a statistically significant effect on tourism
behavior at the .05 level. Tourism strategies and community strengths affecting creative
agrotourism behavior consisted of 1) National Strategy on Tourism Campaign for people in the
community and tourists to participate in the conservation and preservation of natural
resources, environment and culture so that future generations can use and achieve a balance
of the environment, 2) The provincial strategy on tourism explores problems and limitations
in the development of agricultural tourism creativity by building cooperation by allowing the
community to help themselves and not rely on outside agencies and the improvement of
efficient government service processes, 3) Community-level strategies require community
groups to engage in various activities. In the community continually, there is a common
solution that will make the community love, unity and support each other. The community
has career stability and household income. Factors affecting community strength promotion
that affect creative agritourism behaviors are 1) love, unity and support of the community, 2)
common problem solving, 3 ) safety in life and property, 4 ) occupational security and
household income, 5) continual integration of community activities, 6) support from outside
agencies and 7) availability of utilities and utilities. The behavior of tourists who travel mainly
to buy food, snacks, souvenirs, etc., want to receive tourism information, convenience and
safety in traveling, choose activities to take a scenic boat ride along the river/take a walk to
see the agricultural plantation in order to get Learn the way of life of the people in the
community and are interested in the routing model of integrated agricultural tourism. The
agricultural community wants to participate in various interesting activities to gain knowledge
through direct experience and participation with owners of culture directly from tourist
attractions.
The creative agricultural tourism management model consists of 1) Infrastructure,
tourists must be comfortable. Easy to access information and attractions and 2) Community
activities must organize activities to meet the needs of tourists in addition to coming to see,
taste and shop for food, snacks and souvenirs, cruise the scenery along the river, learning the
way of life. The life of the people in the community, the tourists still want to travel in the
form of agriculture that combines the agricultural community. Pracharat Floating Market BangBai Mai must use the information obtained from research to create a database of various
places, as well as to create a map by classifying and creating a creative tourism route into 4
routes that tourists can take part in activities of tourist attractions are as follows: 1. Creative
tourism route, food route, 2. Creative tourism route, nature route, 3. Creative tourism route
Buddhism and 4. Creative tourism routes in tradition, culture and history. 3) Tourism attractions
management consists of: 1. Searching for a local philosopher/ knowledgeable people in the
community, 2 . Supporting materials and equipment necessary for knowledge transfer, 3 .
Training to provide knowledge from relevant agencies, 4. Self-study, 5. Consultation among
relevant sectors, 6. Collect marketing information regularly, 7. Jointly analyze the data to
determine guidelines for driving operations and 8 . Public relations through various social
media, including updating the information up to date. 4) In terms of providing tourists service
to Pracharat Bang Bai Mai Floating Market, tourists must be informed of the creative
agrotourism model through the media and various agencies in order to make decisions and
generate motivation for wanting to visit that place. Information and travel management model
is Mobile. Application to be downloaded application without data charges that should be
available in application, including the name of the place, history and location, as well as
should promote Mobile application for tourists to know and 5) the strength of the community
comes from: 1. Strong community leaders, 2. Leaders have sacrifices, 3. The love and unity of
leaders and members of the community, 4. Love/connection that still maintains a kinship way
of life, 5. The village fund is strong to help members of the community, 6. Leaders view
community problems as a family problem that must be solved, 7. Clear communication and
8. The distribution of benefits is fair and clear.
Key words: Tourism behaviour, Community tourism, clear.