แนวทางการออกแบบสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกทางการท่องเที่ยวและภูมิสถาปัตยกรรม แหล่งท่องเที่ยวธรรมชาติประเภทพุน้ำร้อน

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This research principally aims to propose the design guideline for developing tourism facilities and landscape architecture of natural hot spring tourist attractions. It employs an exploratory research to collect the data in the purlieus of the hot spring site in Northern Thailand along the route of spa and hot spring villages in Mae Hong Son, Chiangmai, and Chiangrai Provinces. The study predominantly maneuvers the integration between the principles of the recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS), the carrying capacity (CC), the limits of acceptable change (LAC), and analysis of tourism activities to find out the hot spring valuation which considerably based on hot spring’s quality and potentiality, social environment and managerial provision. Together with a field survey, the result of this investigation was scrutinized to create a hot spring’s base map and geographic information system. It considerably results in a designation of land use, site planning and a design counsel for landscape architecture which categorized into three main areas; a conservation area, a recreation and facilities area, and environment control area. As an interweaving of research procedure, the local intellectual including handicrafts, products and architecture was examined closely to portray the hot spring’s destination image. The recommendation drawn from this study suggestively concludes that a development of tourism facilities and landscape architecture of natural hot spring tourist attractions should depict local environments, cultural spheres and highlight a disparity of tourism destination images.