Sustainability Assessment of Community Based Tourism (CBT): Tum Rong Community Based Tourism Enterprise, Baan Rad, Phetchaburi

Tourism is one of Thailand's industries with great potential and creates income. Currently, in addition to encouraging mainstream tourism and promoting secondary tourism that focuses on driving from the grassroots, the notion of Community-Based Tourism (CBT) has gained traction in operations. This is to determine the sustainability of the development criteria. This study aims to evaluate the sustainability of CBT activities using the widely acknowledged international sustainable tourism criterion, The GSTC Destination criterion (GSTC-D). The study's findings revealed that community tourism favors the community, society, and area. That is, such operations contribute significantly to job creation; also, develop jobs for individuals in the area. However, when the criteria were applied to operations by CBT in Tham Rong Subdistrict, Ban Lat District, Phetchaburi Province. Most of the operations in Criteria A, Sustainability Assessment, were still problematic. As a result, to meet the criteria, operations must be scaled up to promote secondary tourism. Accepted and sustainable in operation, this result serves as the foundation for pushing and promoting spatial development. This is consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals, which emotionally strain eliminating inequality through grassroots economic development; also, to save natural resources on the land.