Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the retail and wholesale business operations
and its factors in Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai province. This research also investigates how to
support the investment in this aforementioned are a highlighting Retail and Wholesale business
operations in Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai province. The information gathered from 51
businesses in the retail and wholesale business cluster with questionnaires and from interview
from 7 businesses in retail and wholesale business by using semi-structured question interview.
The analysis was undertaken by using logistic regression analysis. Factors affecting investment
decisions after the official opening of Second Thai-Myanmar Friendship bridge are Operational
costs, Shipment and Communication costs and customers attitude in buying choices. These
factors are statistically significant.
In order to study difficulty level of investing in Mae Sai by analysis 5 important aspects
as this following: Business Startup, Building Permits, Commercial Registration, Loan Obtaining
and Tax Payment Process as well as bring point of view from each aspects to calculate weighted
arithmetic mean. The results show that Tax Payment Process higher score than Commercial
Registration, Building Permits, Business Startup and Loan Obtaining. The above results agrees
with investors point of view especially Tax Payment Process is distinctive point to operate
business at Mae Sai because paying Tax is what investors need to follow. The government must
give priority to the implementation of the service to accommodate as well as process also very
convenient such as online tax payment.
Moreover, the most obstacle aspects for startup business in Mae Sai is Loan obtaining
from financial institution because mostly investors in Mae Sai use private capital to open business
by themselves, obtaining a loan is not the result to do the business in this area.