Abstract:
The study of the effects of entrepreneurial marketing strategies on the tourism business in the northeastern region of Thailand has the following objectives: 1) to study the level of marketing strategies implemented by the entrepreneurial effecting the tourism business, 2) to study the relationships of marketing strategies implemented by the entrepreneurial and 3) to propose guidelines for further development of marketing strategies effecting the tourism business. A sample of 320 respondents was asked to complete the questionnaire adopting a five-point Likert scale to gather data for each construct of the model. The reliability test of the questionnaire based on Cronbachs alpha coefficient was 0.97. Construct validity employed the exploratory factor analysis-EFA. The KMO test showed all the scores were greater than 0.50 signifying the sampling was appropriate for factor analysis.The analysis was descriptive and the multiple regression analysis was used for forecasting. The research showed that the effects of entrepreneurial marketing strategies on the tourism business were positively significant correlated at levels between 0.669 and 0.696. The strategic marketing factors on tourism business included product, pricing, place and promotion, of which were able to forecast the business statistically significant at level of .05. The conclusion from in-depth interview pointed to same direction as the quantitative approach which supported the entrepreneurial marketing strategies development in the tourism business.