A creative agricultural resource management to support tourism in Phuket Province
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The results were found that guidelines for developing agricultural resources emphasized the local community participation to promote agro-tourism. There was a group formation to create activities focusing on positive and negative impacts, participation, and self-reliance. Tourism was used as a medium for arranging the management activities of agricultural resources and care-taking of natural resources, benefiting the community and creating value-added agricultural yields. Potential agricultural resources included the value of the body of knowledge, innovation, agricultural wisdom, the value of physical and biological aspects of agriculture, and agricultural resources management by farmers. Meanwhile, potential agricultural resources for tourism included creating and managing agro-tourism attractions. It was also found that the data providers on the potential agricultural resources and tourism potential were statistically significance differed at 0.05 level. It was also found that the difference in the data provider groups affected the various essential supporting services of agro-tourism attractions and agricultural resources with a statistical significance level at 0.05 level. Besides, it was found that the farmer group had different opinions in potentially agricultural resources based on supporting services of agro-tourism attractions compared to the tourism group with a statistical significance at 0.05 level. Moreover, those supporting and promoting agro-tourism had different opinions compared to the farmers’ group, with a statistical significance at 0.01 level. An agricultural resource management model for agro-tourism promotion consisted of four main components: 1) management participation, 2) efficiency service, 3) potential, and 4) value and attraction. Besides, there were essential sustainability guidelines that focused on promoting knowledge, participation, self-reliance, and on-going counseling
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