Development of a Community Participatory Model for Chaiyaphum Ecotourism Management: A Case Study of Mor Hin Khao

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the problem for managing ecotourism  Mor Hin khao Chaiyaphum 2) to study the involvement of communities in the management of ecotourism  Mor Hin khao Chaiyaphum and 3) to study the participatory community model for managing ecotourism  Mor Hin khao Chaiyaphum. This study was conducted by employing participatory action research and the data was collected using several methods, including an area survey and workshop with trader community leaders, villagers and party network. The data was investigated and evaluated by applying content analysis, as detailed in this paper, The research of the study were as follows the community and the participant that relate to have sharing think, share plan, share solve a problem, share start to do, and share decide, there is the opinion freely exchange to learn, be born possession conscious, love and cherish  the tourist attraction, the community has the attentiveness goes along in operating, there is the administration administrates to apportion income type gain throughout, participating in every side will then is the important factor to bring about to manage develop the tourist attraction permanently.