The Guidelines of Logistics for Buddhist Tourism in Nakhon Ratchasima

Abstract

The research “The Guideline of Logistic Routing for Buddhism Tourism in Nakhon Ratchasima” aimed for Buddhism tourism logistic routes’ study as well as provide the information of Buddhism logistic tourism. The population were 2,088 temples, by the way, the researchers selected the 9 samples.  Tools were tourism routing records, traveling time records, and tourism expenditure records. The statistics were cost analysis. The research found 1) Buddhism tourism logistic routes were 3 routes. 2) the comparison of distance, time, cost of travelings’ comparison for each which describe as follows: Buddhism tourism logistic route 1 for tourists from the central part of Thailand consisted of 1) Wat Pa Phu Pha Sung, 2) Non Thai Temple, 3) Wat Arunya Phrom Maram, 4) Wat Arsom Kruba Krissana Intawanno, 5) Soeng Sang Temple, 6) Phor Daeng Temple, 7) Wat Pa Khao Phu Luang 8) Wat Pa Sap Thawi Thammaram 9) Wat Thep Phithak Punnaramwith 639 kilometers, 11 hours 7 minutes, and 2,389 Baht in total. Buddhism tourism logistic route 2 for tourists from the northeastern part of Thailand consisted of 1) Non Thai Temple 2) Wat Pa Phu Pha Sung 3) Wat Pa Sap Thawi Thammaram 4) Wat Thep Phithak Punnaram 5) Wat Pa Khao Phu Luang 6) Phor Daeng Temple 7) Soeng Sang Temple 8) Wat Arsom Kruba Krissana Intawanno 9) Wat Arunya Phrom Maram with 617 kilometers, 10 hours 48 minutes, and 2,306 Baht in total. Buddhism tourism logistic route 3 for tourists from the eastern part of Thailand consisted of 1) Wat Pa Sap Thawi Thammaram 2) Wat Thep Phithak Punnaram 3) Wat Pa Phu Pha Sung 4) Non Thai Temple 5) Wat Arunya Phrom Maram 6) Wat Arsom Kruba Krissana Intawanno 7) Soeng Sang Temple 8) Phor Daeng Temple 9) Wat Pa Khao Phu Luang with 694 kilometers, 11 hours 33 minutes, and 2,594 Baht in total. The research helped tourists from the central, northeastern, eastern parts of Thailand to reduce traveling expenses because these routes were designed to circle.