The Success of Prevention and Protection of Tourists performed by 7th Tourist Police Station in Hua Hin Municipality

Abstract

This research is aimed to (1) study the success of prevention and protection of tourists performed by 7th Tourist Police Station in Hua Hin Municipality and (2) compare the success of prevention and protection of tourists performed by 7th Tourist Police Station in Hua Hin Municipality by classifying into personal characteristics of questionnaire respondents of tourists in Hua Hin Municipality. The researcher has distributed some questionnaires to Thai tourists who have traveled to wander in Hua Hin Municipality in the responsible area of 7th Tourist Police Station numbering 400 persons by using the questionnaires to be the tool of research. The Statistic used for the research is the frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, T-test and F-test. The result of research is found that: (1) The tourists give the overall success of prevention and protection of tourists performed by 7th Tourist Police Station in Hua Hin Municipality in the moderate level. When taking into consideration in each field, it is found that the tourists give the success of prevention and protection of tourists performed by 7th Tourist Police Station in Hua Hin Municipality in the moderate level in 4 fields as follows: (1) The field of working plan, (2) The field of plan evaluation, (3) The field of implementation and (4) The field of improvement, respectively. (2) There is statistically significant difference from the point of view of tourists toward the success of prevention and protection of tourists performed by 7th Tourist Police Station in Hua Hin Municipality when classifying into age, profession and monthly average income and also in the field of gender and level of education, there is statistically no significant difference.