Frontier Tourism in the pattern of Twin Cities located in Thailand and Lao People's Democratic Republic on Structural Model

Abstract

This paper aim is to create a structural model for Frontier Tourism in the pattern Twin Cities located in Thailand and Lao People's Democratic Republic. This research is using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) by AMOS Program. The data were collected from 800 samples from tourists visiting Muang District, Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand and Thakhek and Khammouan in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. This study formulated a final structural model according to the combined opinions gathered from Muang District, Nakorn Phanom Province,Thailand and Thakhek District, Khammouan Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, as the external environmental factors consisted of the following 2 components: 1) Political Legal Environment and 2) Ecological and Natural Environment.  The internal environmental factors consisted of the following 2 components: 1) Tourism Enterprises and Infrastructure of Tourism and 2) Tourism Resources. The twin cities model included Events and Infrastructure.