Abstract:
The research had objective to study Thai tourists perception of service quality of a package tour to CLMV countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam) and to study to what extent service quality had an effect on loyalty to select package tour to CLMV countries. This was a survey research. The findings revealed that the sample group consisted of 400 tourists: 283 female tourists and 117 male tourists. For the age, most of the respondents were in the age range of over 30 years to 40 years. For marital status, the biggest group consisted of 227 married tourists. 250 tourists, the majority, had a bachelors degree. For occupation, the majority consisted of 186 tourists who were government officials or state enterprise officials. The majority, 130 respondents, had income ranging from 10,001 -20,000 baht. For frequency of travel, 219 tourists, the majority had been to CLMV countries once in their lifetime. There were 100 tourists for each of the four countries, namely Cambodia (C), Lao People's Democratic Republic (L), Myanmar (M), and Vietnam (V).For the level of perception on service quality, it was found that all 13 aspects were overall perceived at the high level. Details are followings: the first was satisfaction and the second was word of mouth. From hypotheses testing, it was found that 7 aspects of the perception on the service quality, namely service before sales, service at the airport, additional promotion, service at the destination, shopping center service, restaurant service, tourist sightshad an effect on loyalty to select package tour to CLMV countries at a significance level of 0.05.