Abstract:
The purpose of this study were 1) to study information in the area and potential of creative tourism resources of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung Province. 2) to study the development of creative tourism management of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung Province. This research was qualitative research using EDFR (Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research) techniques. The data was collected in 2 steps which are 1) EDFR Round 1, In-Depth Interview with 19 respondents in order to obtain information to synthesize important issues related to the development of creative tourism management of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung Province 2) EDFR Round 2 and 3 were questionnaires from the same group of informants to consider the answer and confirm data consistency of the group consensus data by calculating the median and interquartile range. Then the results of the analysis of information on the development of creative tourism management of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung Province were used to determine the future trend of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung Province. The results find that : 1. Local information and potential of creative tourism resources of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung consist of 1) Spatial features which are 1.1) community is diverse and distinctive culturally and naturally. 1.2) the community is aware of the community's value by the cultural owner. 2) Process features which are 2.1) tourists and community exchange knowledge across cultures. 2.2) tourists have direct experiences with cultural owners. 2.3) tourists have a deep understanding of tourism area 2.4) does not destroy community values but leads to economic, social, cultural balance. 2. The development of creative tourism management of Tourism Community OTOP Nawatwithi, Phatthalung Province consists of 1) development of community-based tourism management which is 1.1) Sustainable management, this plan must be continually process in the long term, requires readiness and strength of community members along with network partners from various organization in order to drive the plan. 1.2) Economic, social and quality of life management, the important thing is to attain balance and sustainability for the whole system. 1.3) Cultural heritage conservation and promotion, cultural heritage that has been transmitted generation to generation from local people must be preserved and inherited. 1.4) Management of natural resourced and environment, still is the problem that must be solved continuously. When community uses the resources and tourists come in the area. This affects the environment in the community. 1.5) Service and safety still need to be develop and solved the problem both part of giving knowledge, increasing more staff, volunteers, necessary equipment of safety and health. 2) development of creative tourism management which are 2.1) creative community, emphasize on strong participant of community, attempt to develop community area, products, services and tourism activities to be creative and realize the local context to connect with tourism. 2.2) creative marketing must be develop marketing, products, services and tourism activities continuously. 2.3) creative tourism, there are many different types of tourists who want to experience the journey. Developing and enhancing the ability of community to have products, services and tourism activities and present in a creative way will attract the attention of tourists through creative innovation.