The Development of Potentiality of Khao Sok National Park Tourist Site, Klongsok Panom District, Surat Thani Province

Abstract

There are two  objectives of this research  as follows: 1) To study development of potentiality of Khao Sok national park tourist site, Klongsok Sub district, Panom district, Surat Thani province. 2)To study the guidelines for development of potentiality of Khao Sok national park tourist site, Klongsok Sub district, Panom district, Surat Thani province.

The results of the research were as following

1. The level of development of potentiality of Khao Sok national park tourist site, Klongsok Sub district, Panom district, Surat Thani province, found that - overall was at high level (  =4.11), when considered as individual basis, in descending order of mean, it was found that the aspect of easy to access was the highest (  =4.18), followed by value of tourist area (  =4.12) prestige  (   = 4.12), the environment              (  =4.12), accommodation (  =4.10), and limitation of tourist welcoming was the lowest (   =4.01), respectively. When considered  in terms of sexes, ages, degrees of education, occupations and monthly incomes found that there are all at high level.


2. The guidelines for development of potentiality of Khao Sok national park tourist site, Klongsok Sub district, Panom district, Surat Thani province. There are as following 1.There should promote on knowledge for tourists to regard on value of tourist area, 2. There should promote on protection the natural resources, forest, cannel, etc. 3. There should manage of traffic transportation as clearly, and showing the traffic symbol all the way up to the tourist area. 4. There should have distance indicators of the area especially for curve and square. 5. There should have Thai and English symbol for traffic labels as coverage.