The Management of Eco-Tourism cultural of Khlong Bangphraluang Community Muang Nakhonsawan District, Nakhonsawan Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study the background, and way of life in Khlongbangphraluang Community, Muang Nakhonsawan District, NakhonSawan Province and, 2) To study only the cultural ecology of people in the khlongBang Phra Luang community Mueang Nakhon Sawan District Nakhon Sawan Province and,3) to study the trends and directions in the promotion of the eco-cultural tourism in Khlongbangphraluang Community, Muang Nakhonsawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province.

This research applied the Qualitative Research as Documentary Analysis based on data collection of the Khlong Bang Phra Luang community. The tool of the research was in-Depth interview from the 17 key informants.

Results of the Research

1. The background and way of life in Khlongbangphraluang Community, Muang Nakhonsawan District, Nakhon Sawan Province were that the people in the community lived in the system of the kinship. The people were interdependent. In the past, the people generally lived on the rafts because the people had no their own land. Mostly, the people raised the fish for the sale. Now, the people immigrated to their land in living. However, some people still lived on the rafts. The people were the farmers and the fishermen. Moreover, the people made the dried fish and the salted fish for the sale.


2. The trend and direction in the promotion of the eco-cultural tourism in Khlongbangphraluang Community, Muang Nakhonsawan District, Nakhonsawan Province were that:

2.1 For planning, the community should participate in the tourism development and get the profit from the tourism. Therefore, the community should have the commitment of the members in the community. The people in the community should share their ideas, plan, do the activities together, and set the direction of the policy in the management and coordination.

2.2 For organization, the community should establish the committee for the promotion of the Eco-cultural tourism in the community to the direct and indirect benefit. The establishment of the committee for the promotion of the eco-cultural tourism was suitable to be the frame and ways for the tourism management the in community.

2.3 For staffing, the community should have the committee for the development and promotion of the Eco-cultural tourism in the community. The promotion of the Eco-cultural tourism in the community was as the driven mechanism for the tourist attractions in the community to develop continuously and sustainably, to manage thoroughly, and to promote the participation in the tourism management and the co-development of the tourist attractions to the people.

2.4 For directing, the community should have the standard of the commitment with the community such as the cleanness, security, income distribution of the related people, and assimilative capacity. Moreover, the community should make the plan or project as the final step of the planning to the development in the frame of policies, objectives and goals.

2.5 For controlling, the community should evaluate the development of tourism in all aspects to set the guidelines for the management, problem solving and plan improvement, have the law enforcement in controlling and maintaining the environment seriously with giving the advice and creating the disciplines in the tourism to the participation in the development of the eco-cultural tourism properly.