Abstract:
The purposes of this research are to study and analyze the development, policy, form and content of the ecotourism advertising in Thailand, and to evaluate the agreement between the policy of Tourism Authority of Thailand, environmental problems tourism resources, supporting factors, obstracles against advertising materials production and planning. The research is based on the documents, interviews of three experts, four types of advertising media : television, radio, print advertising and billboards, produced and publicized between 1995-1997. The major findings of the research are: 1. After the establishment of Tourism Organization of Thailand (TOT) in 1960, the tourism business was rapidly in progress. After the replacement by Tourism Authority of Thialand (TAT) in 1979, the tourism industry generated the highest income for the country since 1982. The ecotourism was strongly emphasized in 1995. Advertising materials for distribution were produced with better quality, higher standard and efficiency, underthe policy of Tourism Authority of Thailand. In 1997, the Development Plan of Ecotourism was specially written in the eight National Plan for Economic and Social Development (1997-2001). 2. Factors of form, content, and psychology in four materials creation are in accordance with supporting factors and obstacles against advertising materials production and planning for ecotourism. 3. Factors of form, content, psychology in material creation, supporting factors, obstracles, money, personnel, management, materials, technology, including policy, media production management and evaluation of ecotourism, are all in accordance with the policy direction of Tourism Authority of Thailand.