Tourism and Beliefs in Vessavana of Thai Tourists: A Case Study of Wat Chulamanee Tambon Bang Chang, Amphawa, Samut Songkhram

Abstract

The objectives of this study were: 1) to study the behavior and motivations of Thai tourists in tourist attractions that believe in Vessavana 2) to study the relationship between personal factors and tourism behavior in tourist attractions with belief in Vessavana, which is a quantitative research by the questionnaire was distributed with a sample of 428 people and analyzed by descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and chi-square test statistic. The statistical significance was determined at the 0.05 level.

          The results of the study revealed that the behavior of tourists mainly traveled with the purpose of praying and praying for sacred things. Mostly travel by private car. The number of visits is 2-3 times, most of them are traveling on weekends by traveling with family and couples/husbands, wives. However, the overall motivation for traveling in tourist attractions that believed in Vessavana at Wat Chulamanee was at a high level, both in terms of physical motivation culture/belief and emotional and emotional. The results of the correlation study found that relationship between personal factors and tourism behavior in tourist attractions with belief in Vessavana, chi square test results overall, and it was found that Individual factors are different. The behavior of tourists traveling to travel correlated in some ways at a level of statistical significance of 0.05