The Safety and Self-protection Awareness Application Model for Sea Travel Risk

Sureerut Inmor, Rungsan Suwannahong

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Research on the safety and self-protection awareness application model for sea travel risk has conducted survey with the sample populations of 385 tourists aged more than 18 yrs. who traveled to Chonburi province, Thailand. The purpose is to study the tourism season associated with threats in order to create the security awareness application program for seaside tourism. The travel seasons are summer and rainy season represent the high and low season. The travel risk consists of marine accident, road accident, price fraud, threat in life and property, and not receiving immediate help. The statistics used in data analysis are descriptive statistics (mean, percentage, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Chi-Square). For all 5 categories of risk, research found the weak relationship but still significant with the summer travel. The highest relationship is marine accident and the least is not receiving immediate help.  In rainy season, the result infers that the marine accident is important risk in rainy season, mainly cause by the weather (monsoon).    The study on marine accident should be further study in depth and expand to other sea travel place in Thailand. The result could be used as a guideline for understanding and reducing the tourism risk for both local and foreign tourists.  The safety and self-protection awareness application model for sea travel tourist shall be constructed using this data.

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