A Study of the Development and the Impacts of the Community Based Tourism : A Case Study of Amphawa Community, Samut Songkhram.
Abstract
Amphawa is the community of a large floating market dating from the 18th century, located about 80 kilometres from Bangkok, Thailand. Amphawa has been experiencing a revival of tourism development since 2004, and has become a popular weekend destination for urban tourists and a primary site in an emerging trend of local tourism among Thai and foreigner travelers. Amphawa community presents a pattern of living and traditional settlement identity of Thais over time. It has social significance as the representative of many association aspects in the past such as commercial, spiritual, social, educational, and cultural pattern. The riverside way of life of Amphawa community also display an outstanding way of life, custom, land-use, function or design that is rare to see at the present. Now, Amphawa community is very crowded with tourists and cars especially on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This caused Amphawa community is having problems from load of trashes, garbage, traffic, lack of car park, increasing price but declining quality of goods and services. More than these, the dependence of folklore, way of people's life, culture and scenery are also facing a problem. This research also provided Amphawa history, community development, and recommendations to the readers to understand the real characteristics of Amphawa community.
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