Open AccessAdaptation of Apartments to Small Hotels: The Case of Nakhon Si Thammarat Thailand
Author(s) -
Chaiwat Riratanaphong,
Chutima Kaewchan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/690/1/012013
Subject(s) - apartment , tourism , adaptation (eye) , accommodation , business , process (computing) , marketing , government (linguistics) , focus group , operations management , geography , computer science , engineering , psychology , civil engineering , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , neuroscience , operating system
The support of tourism industry from Thai government leads to the increasing demand and development of accommodation in the less visited cities including Nakhon Si Thammarat, which has been mostly visited in comparison to the other less visited cities since 2017. There is a high demand in small hotel accommodation type in Nakhon Si Thammarat whereas apartment buildings are oversupplied and becoming obsolete. This study aims to propose a step-by-step process for the adaptation of apartments to small hotels in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand. Research method includes interviews with tourists, small hotel developers, the apartment developer and the expert in the adaptation of buildings to small hotels. The findings show the alignments between data from the interviews and what have been found in the literature that were developed to a proposed step-by-step process on the adaptation of apartments to small hotels. This study provides the adaptation process based on the case of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand. More cases are required to test the step-by-step process in order to increase the validity and to make further progress. Further study could focus on feasibility analysis and the implementation of the step-by-step process in other cities to find out the similarities and dissimilarities regarding the different contexts of the cases.