A Community-Based Tourism Planning Process Model (Figure 1) suggests by Pinel (1998) was used as a
guideline to tourism planning and development at Sangkhom District.
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Pinel’s Model of community-based tourism planning process included 4 phases of community assessment and
organization development, planning and preparation, delivery, and monitoring and evaluation. During the
community-based tourism planning process, Participatory Action Research (PAR) was applied to Sangkhom District
in order to achieve the main objective of this study. Tools and techniques such as observation, in-depth interview,
preliminary meetings, inter-group meetings and workshops were used to gain stakeholders’ participation in the
planning process.