Public Participation in Tourism Management: Satun UNESCO Global Geopark
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This research aimed to study the level of public participation in tourism management of Satun UNESCO Global Geopark, to study factors affecting the public participation in tourism management of Satun UNESCO Global Geopark. This Research is Quantitative Research. The sample of this research was 400 local people living in the Satun UNESCO Global Geopark area, chosen by stratified random sampling method. A questionnaire was used as a research instrument to collect data. The data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, One Way ANOVA, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this research indicated that the respondents’ level of overall participation in tourism management in Satun UNESCO Global Geopark was at a moderate level. When individual aspects were considered, an aspect with the highest mean was participation in taking benefits, followed by participation in implementation, and participation in monitoring and evaluation, and participation in planning and decision-making, respectively. The results of the testing factors affecting the public participation in the management of tourism in Satun UNESCO Global Geopark revealed that two factors affecting the public participation were social factors in terms of public awareness and support factors in terms of promotion and support from related agencies with a statistical significance level of 0.05. The findings would be beneficial to operations in the public, private and related sectors as policy formulation guidelines for planning works / projects in the development of public participation process for further development of Satun UNESCO Global Geopark.
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