Sustainable Tourism Management for Supporting ASEAN Economics Community

Abstract

In order to enter ASEAN Economic Community completely in the approaching year 2015, it is necessary for Thailand to prepare readiness in every aspect, especially for tourism management. Due to the tourism industry in the past could make fame and created income to the country enormously.  When we have entered the ASEAN Economic Community, It is predicted that there will be the increasing number of tourists. Therefore, we should pay attention and prepare ourselves for tourism.  Particularly for policy and management, we should pay attention for sustainable tourism by establishing guidelines for application and development of tourism resources to use resources wisely and to maintain the identity of nature and cultures or to achieve minimal impacts. The sustainable tourism management must be considered for the participation of all sectors for both government sectors, private organizations, networks and especially, local residents and the local economic development simultaneously. Moreover, we should consider and repeat for recent academic works and researches in the related topic which are beneficial to the development of tourism and lead to sustainable tourism management