ABSTRACT
Thai gastronomic tourism involves culinary heritage resources basis and theirs amazing tourist destinations
which can be generated the squander of the long history of Thai culinary heritage resources. This article addresses this by
drawing together knowledge of gastronomy involving with tourism aspect in order to develop a better understanding of
the meaning, role, and the importance of gastronomy and culinary heritage in Thailand tourism. Particular attention is
paid to the relationship between the forces of localization and the potential for being the gastronomic destination of
Ayutthaya. The aim of this paper is to present the gastronomic tourism in Ayutthaya, Thailand. The study was using
qualitative method. Data were gathered from documentaries, interviewing, observation and exploring geographic of the
tourism area. The result of the culinary aspect discovered that there are the most popular menus of Thai dishes and
desserts among those Thai and foreign tourists which included กวยเตี๋ยวเรือ: kouy tiew rue, Thai styled rice noodle soup with
vegetable and meat, กุงแมน้ําเผา: kung-mae-naam-pao, charcoal grilled river prawn, and the dessert is โรตีสายไหม: the candy
floss wrapped with roti flour.
KEYWORDS
Gastronomic, Tourism, Ayutthaya
INTRODUCTION
Thailand is one of the ASEAN country members with a thriving of tourism industry aspect. According to the
survey data shown on Table 1, the total numbers of international tourist arrivals to Thailand are increased to more than
19 million people last year [1]. However, Thailand tourism has a tendency to raise and expand. Specially, Gastronomic
tourism involves culinary heritage resources basis and theirs amazing tourist destinations which can be generate the
squander of the long history of Thai culinary heritage resources. Hence, Thai National Economic and Social development
plan started from the eighth plan (1997 – 2001) up to the eleventh plan (2012 – 2016) had attempted to determine
strategies and focused on tourism development by using human as a hub of expansion and creating natural resources for
highly profit and for social reinforcement [2].