Abstract:
The study of tourists' satisfaction toward Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province has two objectives: 1) to study tourists' satisfaction toward Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province; 2) to compare tourists' satisfaction toward Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province according to the tourists' gender, age, marital status, education level, and monthly income. This study's target group comprised 400 Thai tourists to Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province. The target group was selected using accidental sampling. The study was conducted by using survey questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results of the study according to each objective are as follows. 1) The study found that the tourists' satisfaction toward Bangsaen Beach overall was at a high level. The satisfaction in each aspect was averaged in the following order. The satisfaction in the physical aspect was at a very high level. The satisfaction in place, product, process, and people was at a high level. The satisfaction in price was averaged lowest at a medium level. 2) The comparison of tourists' satisfaction in Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province according to their personal factors, including gender, age, marital status, education level, profession, and monthly income, found that the satisfaction of tourists with different ages, marital statuses, education levels, professions, and monthly incomes had a different level of satisfaction toward Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province with a significant statistical value of .05, which followed the hypothesis of the study. Tourists of different genders did not have a difference in their satisfaction level toward Bangsaen Beach, Chonburi Province at the significant statistical value of .05, which did not follow the study's hypothesis.