Systematic Review of Community-Based Tourism in Thailand

Deng Aimin ； Yupin Unkaew

《DPU International Conference on Business Innovation and Social Sciences 2021》 International Sessions (2021/05) Pp. 378-384

https://doi.org/10.29608/caicictbs.202105.0042

摘要

This study applies a systematic review approach to examine and review community based tourism research in Thailand over the last five years, from 2016 to 2020. The objective is examines and synthesizes research on community-based tourism (CBT) in Thailand, and also looked into the research gaps that need to be addressed in future research. Secondary data was collected from online academic databases. Beside, both quantitative and qualitative data analysis and analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. According to the findings, there are a total of 152 papers on community-based tourism in Thailand that have been published. The majority of the researches were carried out in 2020, whereby their main research objectives are focus on Community- based Tourism (CBT) in the Northeast of Thailand. The expansion of CBT destinations in Thailand is reflected in the direction and growing number of CBT publications. The results of the systematic review of literature indicate that researchers from various fields take great interest in writing papers about CBT because tourism is a field that can be integrated with a variety of disciplines. However, some of them are lack of awareness and understanding about community-based tourism concepts and principles, and as a result, some papers are dedicated solely to community tourism. The future research is required to concern 1) Information and communication Technology for CBT 2) Service and Safety 3) Initiatives for CBT in ASEAN 4) Creative Community Based Tourism (CCBT).

關鍵字

Community-based tourism ； Research systematic review ； the research gap