The Continuance New Year tradition for Promoting Cultural Tourism of Thai Hill tribe Ethnic Groups Khlong Lan District in Kamphaeng Phet

Abstract

The adjective of research is to study the livelihood and intangible cultural heritage of ethnic groups in Sukhothai,Tak,and Kamphaeng Phet of Thailand and to create the networking and restore the livelihood and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage of ethnic groups in Sukhothai,Tak,and Kamphaeng Phet of Thailand and find out the promotion way and take the result of research for development of culture tourism of Thai ethnic in Sukhothai, Tak, and Kamphaeng Phet by using the qualitative research. The 60 informants are old people, community-experts, traditional leaders of village and the staffs of ethnic development center. The gathering of data was done by interview, participatory observation and group discussion. The analysis was done by content analysis and credibility of data was checked by the triangulation method. 

            The result of research was fond that the ethnic groups in Sukhothai, Tak, and Kamphaeng Phet have gotten an important livelihood and intangible cultural heritage such as New Year traditional inheritance, conservation of Hill Tribe wisdom, Hill Tribe handicraft, Hill Tribe music and ethnic tourism etc. The networking creative processes to restore the livelihood and ethnic traditional inheritance have 3 steps: 1) the adaptation themselves, the development themselves and overcoming the sub-tradition 2) the creation of group relationship and establishing relation group 3) the connection of relation to network by applying the social and cultural capital to create many networks. The promotion and the result of research for the ethnic cultural tourism is 1) the development of model livelihood and the intangible cultural heritage of ethnic groups were created by the creative economy in Khlong Lan district, Kamphaeng Phet province 2) a testing innovation 3) the assessment of testing the innovation which found at least 3 successful conditions first the livelihood community and intangible cultural heritage is outstanding of tourism second the community is potential of management and finally the nice cooperation was supported by the related agencies.