Socio-Cultural ang Economic Evaluation for Tourism Development in Western Part of Thailand Towards the Capability of Dawei Special Economic Zone

Abstract

          The Research Project is a Futurism and Delphi Technique Research and a group seminar with an in-depth interview from the selected key informants such as business sector, servant, community leader, educational officer, and community representative to gather opinions on the impacts of tourism management toward a preparation for controlling, preventing and managing of the social, culture and economy impacts from the tourism development in the western part of Thailand ; Kanchanburi, Ratchaburi, Suphanburi and Nakhon Pathom. The result of this research found that there were impacts from the tourism development on of social, culture and economy.

          The desirable impacts on social and culture found that the tourism development will increase the higher quality of life of the people of the people in the western part of Thailand, emerging a cultural exchange between community and the ethnics networking collaboration.

          The impacts on the social and culture found that the tourism development will increase the massive pollutions, deforestation and voluminous trashes. Other impacts found that there might have increased drugs, criminals, human trafficking and increasing of the migrant workers which maybe cause the social and culture conflicts, problems and illegal migrant workers.            

          The desirable impacts on the economy found that there will be increasing earning a living number of people. There will be the tourism business sectors, accommodations, logistics and seafood investment throughout the western part of Thailand. The logistic and infrastructures will be developed to support the business expansion.

          The undesirable on economy impacts found that the community's cost of living will be higher after the tourism has been developed. The investors will take more advantages from the local community.  Also the deforestation and environmental issues from the industrial development including the physical development and losing the agriculture area are also the undesirable impact.

          Lastly, the suggestions of the control and prevention measurements found from this research are the explicit development proposal from the government and community level by operating and participating together according to Thailand regulations and Laws, environment destruction control, educating people knowingly toward the global changes including the community consciousness and awareness are lso consideration as a control and preventive measure of the tourism development.