Green Map: Agricultural Resources Management Tool for Community-Based Tourism

摘要

The agricultural resources management through Green Map processing for CBT has been studied. Participatory Action Research (PAR) technique was used to gather the data from 50 sampling of Baan Pong community, Chiang Mai, Thailand. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. As a whole, community had participation in agricultural resources management in moderate level. Community's knowledge and understanding of Green Map was significantly increased after the participation. Learning process was emerged during the activities of agricultural resources planning such as green mapping, resources' symbol making, GPS coordinating and transferring to Google Map, and broadcast to several website. After self-assessment of 7 Greens concept by Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), community was observed in 4 aspects as follow: green heart, green activity, green community, and environmental responsibility. As to the knowledge of Green Tourism testing, found the highly significant increased after the activity. The community reflects lessons learned from working together which resulted in a partnership between community's leaders, members, and youth.