The Ingredients for Your 1St Research (Field Survey) Proposal

The Ingredients for Your 1st Research (Field Survey) Proposal

Working Group 4: Tourism

1)  Theme(s)/Purpose(s) of your (Field) Research

[Theme]

Sustainable Development of Tourism in Chiangnmai province.

[Purposes of Research]

Tourism is one of the main industry in Chiangnmai, and it makes big contribution to development of economic development. But tourism is not sustainable only to preserve economic benefit. Tourism is depending on local culture, environment and society. Therefore, tourism development should respect these aspects.

And this research will focus on local community, who are not only getting benefits from tourism but also getting bad impacts from it. This Research will focus on applying the concept of sustainable tourism for them by using 5 aspects, which are economy, social, culture, environment and policies.

2)  Research Questions

[Research Question]

How to achieve sustainable tourism development in Chiangmai province for local community.

[Sub Research Question]

1. How does tourism industry improve the economy of the community in a sustainable way?

2. What is the role of young generation in sustainable development of tourism?

3. How do local community place importance on their own culture? What are the reasons?

4. How do local community value the environment and local resources?

5. What are the policies and strategies pursued by various stakeholders, mainly government, private sector, and local community in achieving sustainable development of tourism?

3) Site Selection

Core Site(s) for Research

Wat Sri Suphan, Baan Tawai Handicraft Center, Umbrella Production, Hmong Hill Tribe Village, Saturday Market, Water-Fall, Tourist Authority, Doi Suthep

Sub Site(s) for Research

Night Bazaar, Sunday Evening Walking Street, Lanna Wisdom School, Kan-tok Restaurant.

4) Younger Generation Issues to Pursue

We will research how youth involves in tourism development for local community.

5) Local Resources & Culture Issues to Pursue

Local resources and culture are important for tourism. We will research whether these are sustainable or not for tourism development?

6) Rural-Urban Links to Pursue

Many sites are at rural area. So we think there is a rural-urban links.

7) Field Survey Methods

Interview, Observation, PCM, Literature review

8) Create Site-Theme Matrix (Refer to the Sample Site-Theme Matrix)

Sites—Issues/Questions

Time to Spend (0.5 day, 1 day, 2 days, 3 days,…)

Total 7-8 days

Sites / Time
(day) / Location / Tourism Aspect
R / U / Economic / Social / Culture / Env / Gov
10. Wat Sri Suphan / 0.5 day / V / V / V / V
11. Baan Tawai Handicraft Center / 1 day / V / V / V / V / V / V
14.Umbrella Production / 1 day / V / V / V / V / V / V
18.Hmong Hill Tribe Village / 1 day / V / V / V / V / V
21.Saturday Market / 0.5 day / V / V / V / V / V
23.Water-Fall / 1 day / V / V / V / V
26.Tourist Authority / 0.5 day / V / V / V / V / V / V
Doi Suthep / 0.5 day / V / V

9) Allocation of Tasks/Responsibilities in WG Activities

WG leader: Teppei

WG sub leaders: Putt, Kimiko

President of Economic aspect: Niam

President of Environmental aspect: Teppei

President of Social aspect: Kimiko, Fumiko

President of Cultural aspect: Putt, Anne

President of governance aspect: Patricia, Rani

We are going to decide responsible person of each site till next presentation.