Abstract:
The purposes of this research are 1) to study the local handicraft of Nakonrachasima to find guidelines on creating the intellectual identity of health and beauty souvenir. 2) to test and find the ingredients in health and beauty products and to test the efficiency with the target consumers. 3) to design and develop a model product. The researcher has collected data about forms and local handicraft materials of Nakonrachasima to study the posibility in souvenir designing and development by studying from the related textbooks and documents, visiting the area to survey from local traders in the communities (None-Toom in Paktongchai district and Dankwean in Chokchai district), studying guidelines on creating emotional experience and making the research instrument which is general and satisfaction assessing questionaire by using standard deviation statistic. The result from 40 subjects which are 65% of female, 27.5% of male and 7.5% of indeterminate shows that people between 25-45 years old have the average income of approximately 10,000-20,000 bath and mostly are government officers and govenment-owned company. It is found that the targets opinion toward the souvenir is that first, it is a reminding present of that person or place. Second, the targets think of the usefulness of the souvenir as well. About the price, most targets think that the souvenir price should be between 100-200 bath and a few think that the price depends on other factors. Most targets know very well about the spa service but not all of them has ever used the service. They think that there should be spa product for using at home and it should be made from local ingredients. After summarizing the data, the researcher comes up with 3 ways of product designing and creates research instrument as designing appraisal from 5 experts which are a designing expert, a marketing expert, an applied Thai traditional medicine expert, a spa product entrepreneur and a provincial tourist. The over all result of the product in the way of usefulness in the third form shows the everage = 4.9, S.D = 0.13 which is the highest level. The over all result in the way of convenience shows the average = 4.4, S.D = 0.7 which is on high level and the over all result in the way of beauty of the first form shows the average = 4.2, S.D = 0.8 which is quite high. Most experts emphasize on both usefulness and appearance also color and fragrance.