Public Participation in Managing Slow Tourism in the Area of Nan Province Public Participation in Managing Slow Tourism in the Area of Nan Province

Abstract

Participation is an opportunity of people to share the idea for planning, decision making, working and taking responsibility for a project or an activity in community, village or sub-district in order to improve life quality of people in community.  The purposes of this research to study the level of public participation in organizing leisurely surfing in the area of nan province and to compare public participation in organizing leisurely surfing in the area of nan province. The Classified according to personal characteristic factors data were collected from 400 people in nan province. Statistics were used to test hypotheses  including statistical for research frequency, percentage, Mean, Standard deviation, t-test and F - test by one way analysis of variance (One-Way ANOVA), and Least Significant Difference (LSD).

The result of this research found that 1) The people are involved in organizing leisure travel in the nan province area, the overall level was at a high level. When considering each aspect, it was found that the most average aspect is operational aspect, followed by monitoring and evaluation, finding the cause of problems, planning, and receiving benefits. 2) The respectively and comparisons of the level of participation in organizing leisure travel in the area of nan province. Classifying personal characteristics factors found that people with occupations education level length of residence in the community and membership in clubs or organizations differ participate in organized leisure travel in the area of nan province, the difference is statistically significant at the .05 level, which is in line with the assumptions that were set. In addition no significant difference in personal factors such as gender, age, and average monthly income.