PROMOTE CULTURAL CONSERVATION TOURISM OF LUNAR MONTH OR BOON SART DUAN SIP TRADITION NAKHON SI THAMMARAT PROVINCE

Abstract

The cultural tourism promotion of the Lunar Month or Boon Sart Duan Sip tradition of Nakhon Si Thammarat province is a method of studying the Lunar Month or Boon Sart Duan Sip tradition related to Buddhist history and culture through the view of travel focusing on the creative wisdom development by respecting the environment, multicultural society, the dignity of human beings, and the way of life of people. It can be said that the cultural tourism of the Lunar Month or Boon Sart Duan Sip tradition is the way to look back at ourselves and understand the relationship between things in the world that are interconnected and cannot be separated from each other. Components of the Lunar month or Boon Sart Duan Sip tradition that can attract tourists in terms of cultural tourism are as follows: history relating to the Buddhism and the belief of the Lunar month or Bun Sart Duan Sip tradition, and the tourism management for the Lunar month or Boon Sart Duan Sip tradition. It is an honorable tradition that has been important to the people of Nakhon Si Thammarat for a long time. This tradition emerged from the belief in animism and Langkawong Buddhism with Phra Borommathat Chedi as the center of sanctity, the abundance of natural resources, agricultural products, and bringing agricultural products to make merit and dedicate to ancestors and relatives who passed away.