Visitors Response Behaviors to Warning Signs in Phu Kradueng National Park, Loei Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study visitor’s background who visited Phu Kradueng National Park, the opinions of visitors and visitor responses to three types of warning signs: collaboration, explanatory  and punishment warning sign. Data was collected by a naturalistic observation and a survey questionnaire of 460 tourists. The researcher used descriptive statistics, t-test, F-test and chi-square to analyze the survey data. The result of the study revealed that reading  and response behaviors to warning signs were found at the significant level of 0.05, the tourists who read signs had positive response behavior more than who did not read signs. The tourists had different opinions toward the three types of warning sign. The study found that gender related to collaborative warning sign, gender and group size related to explanatory warning sign, gender and ages related to punishment warning sign at the significant level of 0.05. The result of this study found that the explanatory sign is suitable warning sings to management of Phu Kradueng National Park more than collaborative and punishment warning sign.

Keywords: Visitor behavior, Warning sign, Phu Kradueng National Park