Film - induced tourism in Thailand: An influence of international tourists’ intention to visit film shooting location.

Film - induced tourism in Thailand: An influence of international tourists’ intention to visit film shooting location.

This study aimed to 1) describe the motivation of travelers to visit Thailand as a film shooting destination by applying the concept of tourists’ motivation on repeat visits to Thailand proposed by Rittichainuwat, Qu, and Mongkhonvanit (2008), 2) identify the travel motivations of tourists in visiting film shooting location in Thailand, and 3) assess whether film can motivate people to become a specific film tourists. This study used “The Beach”, and “Lost in Thailand” movie which was film in Thailand as a case study. The instrument used in the present study is a self-administered questionnaire. A survey with 800 questionnaires was collected in June - December, 2015 and February - April, 2016. Descriptive statistics, Independent Sample Mean Ttests, Analysis of Variances, and the structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the data.