Tourism Route Designs of Buddhist Art in Muang District, Lampang Province

Abstract

A study and establishment of tourism route based on Buddhist arts in Muang district, Lampang province aimed to make a documentary study as well as a survey in Buddhist Arts sources, and to develop a Buddhist arts based tourism route in Muang district, Lampang province.  A study of information on temples, ancient sites, ancient artifacts such as a miniature Mandapas generally used for house an important Buddha images, litters or palanquins, seven-spires candle holders and pulpits in 12 temples; Sri Roungmuang Temple, Pong Sanook Temple, Saeng Muang Ma Temple, Hua Kuang Temple, Phra kaew Don Tao Suchadaram Temple, Phra Chedi Sao Lung Temple,  Mon Chunsean Temple, Mon Puyak Temple, Pa Fang Temple, Srichum Temple, Buyawas Temple and Kho Walukaram Temple and classified by Buddhist Arts significance into 3 groups; Burmese-Shan group, local inhabitant group, and a combination group. In the second objective,  the designed - tourism route was applied to tourism business entrepreneurs, tourist guides, tourists and local populations as a experimental group of these route. Researcher applied the experimental result, route testing, and route reallocation to establish a new tourism route which have a combination of 9 temples in local inhabitant temples group and Burmese-Shan group in one day travel. With an establishment of travelogue (leaflet) named “9 Buddhist  Arts in Khaelang’s local and Burmese-Shan temples” as a result of this research. This route is easy to travel because all temples are located in the areas of muang district.  A design of travelogue in English and Thai includes 3 programs for tourists to choose