ABSTRACT

            The objectives of this research were (1) to study the tourists’ opinions on the garage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province, (2) to compare the tourists’ views on the garage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province with the consideration of sex, age, occupation and levels of education, and (3) to study the tourists’ problems, obstruction and suggestion about the garage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province. This was a survey research. The sample group in this research was 381 tourists who came to the garbage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province (the royal temple). The research tools were the created questionnaire with 0.995 of its reliability. The statistical data analysis was frequency, average percentage (X̅), standard deviation (S.D.), (t-test) and One Way ANOVA, and comparing the difference of average ment to each pair of sample by the of ‘Least Significant Difference’ method (LSD.).

A result of this research was found in the following:

            1. Most of the tourists were 197 males (51.75), 160 persons who were between 21to 30 of their age (42.00%), 135 students/scholars (35.40%), and 114 vocational graduates/diplomats (17.10%).

            2. The tourist’s opinion about the garbage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province was in the disagree level (X̅ = 2.43). If all points were considered, it was found that there were the middle level of the tourists’ opinion on the collection of rubbish, and the disagree level of the tourists’ opinion on the trash and storage junk at the garage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province.   

            3. The different ages of the tourists concerned different opinion on the garbage administration at Wat Nong Waeng (Royal temple), Mueang District, Khonkaen Province with the significance in statistics at 0.05 as seen in the given hypothesis. However, the same sex and education of those tourists dealt with the same opinion equal to the created hypothesis. 

            4. The found problems were that there were not information to drop garbage and policies to reduce a lot of garbage and a garbage-separating dustbin. The dustbins were not enough to keep the garbage and collected it without efficiency. They were not strong and destroyed the scenery because they were set near the religious buildings.

            5. Some suggestions of garbage administration, here, were to reduce a number of garbage, to support separating the garbage before dropping it in the dustbin, and to add a number of the dustbins with the effective, strong quality in order to prevent all dustbins from a dog and other animals to take the garbage out. To find out a new place for the dustbins was better. If they were placed there, it was better to do it proper and beautiful for the religious buildings and the scenery around the temple.