Abstract:
The purposes of this research were educated for tourists awareness and various factors
that were influenced tourists realizations in term of the conservation of fire flies, included in
studying problems, obstacles and counsels that were related to the awareness of the fire flies
conservation. This education was combined with survey and qualitative researches from the
sample group which was the number of four hundreds Thai tourists who are over eighteen years old
that were visiting at Amphawa Floating Market in Samut songkram province. For this research
the questionnaires were applied for collecting data and the data was analyzed by statistical methods
used percentages, means, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, t-test and One-way Analysis of
variance.
The research result was revealed that the sample group had awareness of fire flies
conservation in medium level. The factors that influenced tourists realizations were shown that
giving a concerned value and knowledge about fire flies conservation totally affected tourists
awareness, regarding to the conservation of fire flies in conservative tourism area in The Amphawa
Floating Market in Samut songkram province. The statistical significance of this research was at
(p < 0.001); the important problems and obstacles were the tourists behaviors which were not
appropriate, for instance, using spotlight while was seeing fire flies, flashing from camera or
catching fire flies without knowledge and proper comprehension regarding to seeing fire flies
tourism and truly not have an awareness of conservation.
The recommendations from this research were presented as follow: the corporations or
any person who concern with these dilemmas ought to public knowledge and information consist
of building up awareness in value of fire flies to tourists for realizing and understanding accurately
through communications and medias, for example, television, radio, newspaper, journal, magazine,
brochure, government document, parties, authority, relations, friends including internet, website,
people who involve in the government sector and private sector have to be a part to promote
tourists for increasing awareness concerning to the conservation of fire flies, which have to
manage regularly and continuously, in addition the procedure should be proceed seriously for
sustainable fire flies conservation.
Keywords: Awareness,Conservation of Fire Flies,Amphawa Floating