Behavior of Foreign Tourists Visited Wat Phrachetuponwimolmangkalaram

This research aims to study tourism data and behavior
of foreign tourists visited Wat Phrachetuponwimolmangkalaram (Wat
Po) Sample groups are tourists who visited inside the temple, during
February, March, April and May 2013. Tools used in the research are
questionnaires constructed by the researcher, and samples are dawn
by Convenience sampling. There are 207 foreign tourists who are
willing to be respondents. Statistics used are percentage, average
mean and standard deviation.
The results of the research reveal that:
A. General Data of Respondents
The foreign tourists who visited the temple are mostly female
(57.5 %), most respondents are aged between 20-29 years (37.2%).
Most respondents live in Europe (62.3%), most of them got the
Bachelor’s degree (40.1%), British are mostly found (16.4%),
respondents who are students are also found (23.2%), and Christian
are mostly found (60.9%).
B. Tourists’ Behavior While Visiting the Temple Compound.
The result shows that the respondents came with family (46.4%),
have never visited the temples (40.6%), and visited once (42 %). It is
found that the foreign tourists’ inappropriate behavior are wearing
revealing attires (58.9%), touching or getting closed to the monks
(55.1%), and speaking loudly (46.9%) respectively.
The respondents’ outstanding objectives are to visit inside the
temple (57.5%), to pay respect to the Reclining Buddha Image in the
Viharn (44.4%) and to worship the Buddha image in the Phra Ubosod
(37.7%) respectively.
C. The Respondents’ Self-evaluation of Performance
It is found that over all tourists evaluated themselves in the highest
level averaged 4.40. When focusing on each item, it is shown that
they evaluated themselves in the highest level on obeying the temple
staff averaged 4.57, and cleanness concern of the temple averaged
4.52, well-behaved performance during the temple visit averaged
4.47 respectively.

• Pranee Pathomchaiwat

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