![]() ![]() In the history, Thai Church has passed through difficult time of persecutions. For more than three centuries that the Catholic Education has been part of Thai educational development. In order to understand this apostolate, the study will cover in three areas: the historical development of the Thai Church, the essential magisterium principles and doctrine of Catholic Education, and the canonical application and implementation in regards to mission of educating the youth in Thai Catholic schools. The main focus of the research is on the school apostolate as an expression of Catholic Education and Missionary Action in the Roman Catholic Church of Thailand. Transfers of know-how and best practices on the cultural route concept in wider scales were recommended, particularly between Thailand and other foreign territories, permitting cultural linkages of people, countries, regions, and continents in the macro-structure of heritage on different levels. Standard guidelines of cultural tourism for a cultural route in Thailand were proposed. The application of the cultural heritage management on the pilgrimage routes was presented with appropriate guidelines for community involvement in terms of cultural heritage conservation and cultural tourism development and management. Finally, the routes have high potentials to be developed as tourist destinations for cultural tourism. These religious spaces provide cultural and cross-cultural significance and represent a Catholic church as main part of the social, tradition, and culture with significant inter-relationship with Thai society in the national history. ![]() The study found that success and failure of the French Catholic mission in Thailand has established many sacred areas in forms of the pilgrimage routes accompanied by a mosaic of different ethnic groups who have, overtime, learned to co-exist spiritually. ![]() Historically, the first group of French missionaries began their hazardous journeys from Marseilles in France to Siam for their Catholic mission in the reign of King Narai however, they could not make success on the mission against Thai people but created some cultural gaps between each other until the reign of King Rama IV. Saint Joseph Church in Ayutthaya Wat San Paulo in Lopburi Immaculate Conception Church, Saint Francis Xavier Church, Santa Cruz Church, Holy Rosary Church, and Assumption Cathedral in Bangkok Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Chanthaburi and their surrounding Catholic communities and associations are the main study boundaries. The researcher used qualitative study through documentary research and interview for this review. The research provides a critical review of the literature in the following areas: concepts related to the intersection of tourism and religion, religion and spirituality are still among the most common motivations for travel, religious tourism and pilgrimage, sacred motivations for pilgrimage, development of tourism destination for pilgrimage route, challenges for pilgrimage route in cultural tourism, postmodernism, challenges of postmodernism in cultural tourism development, cultural route concept, pilgrimage route as a form of cultural route, and cultural route and cultural heritage management approach. The aims of this study are to review (1) historical and spiritual backgrounds and their cultural heritage significance of French Catholic mission in Thailand, contributed by Catholic churches and their Catholic communities between the late of Ayutthaya period and the early of Bangkok period (1662 - 1862 A.D.), for development as cultural tourism destinations by linking them into pilgrimage routes, (2) general relevance of the cultural route concept into the pilgrimage routes to ensure cross-cultural significance to be interpreted and presented for cultural heritage conservation and cultural tourism development of the routes, accompanied by guidelines for sustainable management respecting their authenticity and integrity, and (3) establishment of standard guidelines of cultural tourism for a cultural route in Thailand. ![]()
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