Exploring Situations of Poverty and Community-Based Tourism in Pak Phayun District, Phatthalung Province using the Household-Based Approach

Abstract

Purpose: To study the situation of poverty in the Mak Island area, Pak Phayun District, Phatthalung Province, and analyze the community-based tourism mechanism using impoverished households as a base.  

Methodology: This is participatory action research with a focused area approach, employing tools such as interviews and field research. The target group is determined by specific surveys of household income, with a total of 100 impoverished households. Data analysis is conducted using inferential statistics, focusing on five quantitative dimensions.

Findings: The community tourism mechanism using poor households as a base has an adjustment process that affects the survival of the poor in the community. Which has social factors in the dimensions related to people, and social groups, and economic factors in the dimensions related to means of production and subsistence. Creating a learning process between people in the community the results of integration in solving poverty problems with the mechanisms and skills of organizing community tourism, can be reflected in increased income. due to the development of community kitchens Community products and developing skills in community tourism services Therefore, the mechanism of community tourism can be used to develop the community to create a sustainable process of solving poverty problems.

Applications of this study: Develop a sustainable community tourism management plan and system that is consistent with development in various dimensions, including economics, society, culture, and the environment. The participation of the community in every step, including making the poor people in the community realize the importance of the natural resources that they have for community products to generate additional income.