The objectives of this research are: 1) to study personal characteristics of respondents, 2) to study the opinion of the traveler about travel management of WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen, 3) to compare the opinion of the traveler about travel management of Wat Nongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen, 4) to study the development guidelines of travel management of WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen. This research study used a mixed method by quantitative research, survey research and qualitative research by using in-depth interviews with the key Informants at WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen. Samples used in this research were 382 tourists who have come to visit WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen. The tool used to collect data was questionnaire with the value of reliability at 0.953 and the data was analyzed by the social science research program The statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean (X), standard deviation (SD), test (t-test) and analysis of ANOVA (One way analysis of variance). Comparison the was done with least significant difference method (Least Significant Difference: LSD).
The results found that
1. The most tourists are female 270 persons or 70.7 percent, 168 persons or 44.0 percent under 20 years old, 149 persons or 39 percent are undergraduate students, 291 persons or 57.3 percent are students.
2. Tourists review for travel management Buddhist temple WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen, overall level (X̅= 4.32) when considering each side was found : The opinion of tourist for a travel management of Wat Nongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen was a high level in all side place, motivation and service.
3. Older travelers and different career haven’t different opinion for travel management of WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen. Therefore didn’t meet the assumption set. Tourists with different studies have different opinion is statistically significant at 0.05 for travel management of Wat Nongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen. Therefore met the assumptionset.
4. Tourists visiting WatNongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen have opinions toward tourism management:
4.1 The development of the mind and intelligence Travelers have the knowledge and principles of merit, Buddhist arts such as painting, sculpture, the knowledge in the development of intelligence, meditation, wisdom, principles for gratefulness.
4.2 Guidelines for life Traveler lifestyle with conscious, make goodness, ignores evil, to purify the mind, careful in life, honest, not hurting others, Buddha preaching to the monks as a souvenir, way of life sanctioned accordingly.
4.3 The result of traveling Travelers feel happy. Distracted mind calmed down, and more consciousness, make it work better, more successful. In the future they will worship again.
5. Approach for developing for travel management of Wat Nongwaeng (royal temple) Muang KhonKaen is the personnel and staff should attend together to development and preserve what belongs to the public and is the property of the religious spirit of the Buddhists especially, the cleaness because it is the important place for tourist. Should have more parking places because many tourists visit every year. Should improve the service, shops, toilet, restaurants and the location of trash on various points. Part of the motivation should increase the knowledge through development at activities of the mind and intelligence. Should conduct tourism PR of the temple through media online for travelers to get information about the tour and the temple to be known as a tourist destination of the province.
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