Pakphanang: an important port city in Thailand's past

Abstract

Pakphanang, an important port city in Thailand's past, is qualitative research. The objective is to draw on historical knowledge of the former port city of PakPhanang and analyze the situation of historical tourism in PakPhanang. The research method consists of the following processes. The information was collected from documents and past evidence. Moreover, the data was recorded by observing the location, deep interview, and group conversation. The information was examined and investigated using Methodological Triangulation, and Descriptive Research.

The results of Pakphanang's history were that Pakphanang was an important port that was the center of trade and economy. Because of this, the topography of this city was a cape in the sea. So, this cape made a bay in the Pakphanang entrance. This landscape was used for sailing for the cargo ships and, distributing products to important cities. Furthermore, the results presented that this place was a booming economy, widely used chip and E-Pae Coin Pakphanang, China junks, and products from Singapore, China, Malay, India, Ceylon, and Western nations. The environmental investigation of the history tourism situation in Pakphanang presented that Pakphanang was a mangrove forest and tide. From this area context, the environmental problems influenced by tourism was mosquitoes abound because the community was riverside to made puddles that were suitable for breeding mosquitos. In addition, the important problem that affected tourism was lots of garbage in the Pakphanang River which ruined the scenery.  The results of a group conversation on history showed that Pakphanang District still lacked the information center of history. Because of this, historical information from old people did not propagate. The new generation could not tell of Pakphanang's history. Additionally, tourism operation was clustered into some groups, the tourism information did not connect between tour operators, community, and tourism management organizations in the same way as place management and tourist support.