International charter related to historical and cultural tourism and tourists’ demands in historical tourist attraction management within Khao Phra Viharn National Park Area, Sisaket, Thailand.

Abstract

This research’s objective was to study the international charter related to historical and cultural tourism and tourists’ demands on historical tourist attraction management within Khao Phra Viharn National Park area in Sisaket, Thailand. The data was collected from a survey questionnaire distributed to 400 tourists as the respondents, who travelled to the national park. The result was that the tourists’ demands on the management of historical tourist attractions in Khao Phra Viharn National Park area in Sisaket, Thailand are was at a high level, and, when considering each dimension individually, the demands were still high in all dimensions. The average value of the demands in terms of tourist activities was the highest followed by the management. The dimension that received the lowest score was the supporting services. The data from the study was then presented to the organizations which are involved in the development of the strategical management of the innovation plan in the area of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) in order to support historical tourism and use Khao Phra Viharn National Park in Sisaket as a base in the future.

Keywords

• Historical tourism
• Khao Phra Wihan
• tourist needs
• Sisaket province
• Thailand