Sustainable Cultural Tourism After Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Tourism is one of the major incomes of Thailand. Covid-19 Pandemic has been affected the tourism of Thailand a lot. When the pandemic is getting better, Thailand’s public and private sectors see an opportunity to make incomes by opening the country for tourists again. While this environment and situation are recovering, a cultural tourism is getting popular in people of all ages including teenagers who interest to see a community’s life of a rural area, or adults who interest to see various religious places such as praying in 9 different Buddhist temples. Therefore, the private sector should implement a sustainable cultural tourism plan in order to prevent the environment within the community from deteriorating again because it will have a negative effect to communities’ cultural capital. In addition, both public and private sectors should implement the plan based on four sustainable tourism principles including 1. Considering the capacity of the resource, 2. Awareness of the impact on tourism resources, 3. Participation of a community’s members, and 4. Balance of economic, society, and sustainable environmental conservation. This principle exists in order to promote cultural capital so that it does not harm cultural capital. Cultural funds can be divided into two types: tangible and intangible cultural capital. It also mentions the management of disease prevention and control after the COVID-19 circumstances. According to the Communicable Diseases Act B.E. 2015, such as surveillance of the epidemic, Limiting the numeral of the customer using the service, social distancing, and requesting cooperation from the regional public health authorities.