Abstract—This research aims to study tourism data and behavior of foreign tourists visited Wat Phrachetuponwimolmangkalaram (Wat Po) Sample groups are tourists who visited inside the temple, during February, March, April and May 2013. Tools used in the research are questionnaires constructed by the researcher, and samples are dawn by Convenience sampling. There are 207 foreign tourists who are willing to be respondents. Statistics used are percentage, average mean and standard deviation. The results of the research reveal that: A. General Data of Respondents The foreign tourists who visited the temple are mostly female (57.5 %), most respondents are aged between 20-29 years (37.2%). Most respondents live in Europe (62.3%), most of them got the Bachelor’s degree (40.1%), British are mostly found (16.4%), respondents who are students are also found (23.2%), and Christian are mostly found (60.9%). B. Tourists’ Behavior While Visiting the Temple Compound. The result shows that the respondents came with family (46.4%), have never visited the temples (40.6%), and visited once (42 %). It is found that the foreign tourists’ inappropriate behavior are wearing revealing attires (58.9%), touching or getting closed to the monks (55.1%), and speaking loudly (46.9%) respectively. The respondents’ outstanding objectives are to visit inside the temple (57.5%), to pay respect to the Reclining Buddha Image in the Viharn (44.4%) and to worship the Buddha image in the Phra Ubosod (37.7%) respectively. C. The Respondents’ Self-evaluation of Performance It is found that over all tourists evaluated themselves in the highest level averaged 4.40. When focusing on each item, it is shown that they evaluated themselves in the highest level on obeying the temple staff averaged 4.57, and cleanness concern of the temple averaged 4.52, well-behaved performance during the temple visit averaged 4.47 respectively. Keywords—Deportment, Traveler I. INTRODUCTION OMESTIC tourism is important to most people as it will affect to the economy of people in their sources to attract more Thai and foreign tourists to visit. Study the benefit and disadvantage of tourism which impact on the country in personal, economy, social, politics and environment including culture and tradition should be considered specifically. According to the data of Tourism Authority of Thailand and Association of Tour and Guide Business in 2011, Bangkok is ranked the first top 10 tourist cities. The famous tourist attractions are The Royal Palace, The Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Prakaew), Wat Prachtuponwimolmangkalaram Pranee Pathomchaiwat is an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand (e-mail: pranee.pa@ssru.ac.th). (Wat Pho),Wimanmek Mansion, Pratinung Anuntasamakom (Land Art) and an area around the Ratanakosin Island which having20 ,754 , 195persons. [2] However, the question was headlined in an article on ASTV online manager that “Should the temples be tourist attractions or not?” Patcharin Impitak [9] wrote an article on the newspaper entitles Traveler Leisure & Business in a column of Travel in Trend by quoting from the project of research institute to develop Thai tourism entitled “Model of Development of the Temple Tourist Attractions in Bangkok” which Phramaha Sutit Apakaro under Wat Sutiwararam as a chief of research project. He got fund supported by the National Research Council of Thailand. The purpose is to study model of development about tourism in Bangkok area that temple should be tourist source or not? To find out properness of temple tour, 9 temples for management of tourism such as Wat Prachetuponwimolmangkalaram (Wat Pho) Wat Sutat, Wat Chanasongkram, etc. were dawn as selected sampling. The result of the study is that the temples are appropriate for visiting to learn history, culture, architecture, art and Buddhism, but they should be managed in restricted area and tourists must pay respect to the holy places in the temple compound. Besides the regulations to visit, the obvious signs should be exposed to give the information and instruction. [12] However, it is found that many tourists like to visit Wat Pho most for 8.15 million people per year, and it is ranked to be 24 th of the world, Wat Arun visited by 5 million people per year. Wat Rakung 1 million people per year, Wat Saket, 500,000-700,000 people per year. At the same time, Wat Po is scored in provided activities most, secondly are Wat Rakung and Wat Benjamabopit. It is also found that there are some problems while the tourists are visiting the temple. They are about improper behavior to places, opportunity, culture of Thai good deed, and temple rules. Most of the foreigners do not maintain environment condition, and they lack of principle in visiting places especially Thai tourists. Invasion of shops and services around the compound cause the dispute between the people in the community and the people who make the benefit. Problem and effect from tourism in temples can be caused from cultural belief in respecting different objects, so the problem occurs in violating life style and culture. If we ignore this problem, it will affect to religion, culture and Thai tourism. As stated above, the researcher wanted to study the actual behavior of the foreign tourists while visiting around Wat Phrachetuponwimolmangkalaram. (Wat Pho). Pranee Pathomchaiwat Behavior of Foreign Tourists Visited Wat Phrachetuponwimolmangkalaram D World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering Vol:8, No:7, 2014 2347 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 8(7) 2014 ISNI:0000000091950263 Open Science Index, Economics and Management Engineering Vol:8, No:7, 2014 publications.waset.org/9999037/pdf