This research study is entitled  “A Study of English Communication Skills for Historical Tourism in Lopburi Province” which is of the objectives;  1) to study the English expressions used in Tourism, and 2) to study the English communication skills used in Tourism of the tourists group and the Lopburi officers of the Tourism Authority of Thailand in Lopburi province in order to analyze the ways of how they use English for tourism with both native and nonnative speakers. 

             This thesis is concerned with documentary research and qualitative research. The study is divided into 2 parts as to the order of the research objectives.  The data is gathered by in-depth interviews and an informal focus group, individual discussions and observations of the officers on-duty.  The samples of this research are 9 Lopburi officers of the Tourism Authority of Thailand in Lopburi province. 

The research result is found as follows:

            The main obstacles of the Lopburi officers of the Tourism Authority of Thailand in Lopburi province is the lack of vehicles, English language communication skills with both native and non-native speakers, and they are mostly not able to communicate in English fluently and correctly in terms of tourism. 

             The vocabularies, idioms, phrases, sentences, English expressions and English conversations for tourism have been used for communications and studied according to the objectives of the research. 

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