Duangjai Loratnavanit

Department of Japanese,
Faculty of Liberal Arts ,
Thammasat University

Biography :

Dr.Duangjai earned a B.A. in Japanese from Thammasat University, Thailand, and M.A. from , Faculty of Literature, Keio Universiy, Japan . She was a lecturer in the Department of Japanese, Faculty of Liberal Arts , Thammasat University from 1996-1999, and the Head of the Department from1999-2002. She recieved her Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary College, Thammasat University, Bangkok,Thailand (2007).Her present position is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese, Faculty of Liberal Arts , Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand,where she teaches courses on Japanese studies and tourism .

Research :

Dr. Duangjai’s research interests are mainly focused on tourism management and sustainable tourism development in Thailand and in Japan. She had undertaken researches on the impacts of Japan tourism policies ,socio-cultural factors and the local government roles to local tourism in many regions of Japan, included Ryukyu Islands (1999); Taketomi island and Iriomote island in Okinawa prefecture (2000), Murakami city in Niigata prefecture and Otaru city in Hokkaido (2003).
She is a co-researcher of sustainable tourism development planning in Mae Hong Son province, northern Thailand ( 1999-2001) and continuously conducted research on the sustainable tourism management in Pai township of Mae Hong Son (2005-2006). More recently Dr. Duangjai has co-ordinated in planning of the Thailand Tourism Master Plan 2008-2011,conducting a survey research on the heritage management for cultural tourism development in Northeast - Thailand focusing on the Khmer heritages in Nakorn Rachasrima and Burirum province.

Publications :

Cha shitsu (tea room), in Room. Bangkok: Scale publishing, 2004.

Awamori, in Charnvit Kasetsiri,ed., Discovering Ayutthaya. Bangkok: Khobfai publishing, 2003.

Articles

thai- yiipun, kau tawpai khong khwaam samphan baeb jarn rong thuay; the next step of Thai –Japan relations as a cup and saucer, proceeding report, the annual seminar in The Thailand –Japan Relations in future, organized by the Japanese Studies Network Thailand, 8 May 2008, at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

State, Capital and the Community in Tourism Management: The case study of Yomitan town, Okinawa prefecture and Pai town in Mae Hong Son province. Journal of Asian Review 28(2), 160-182 (2007)

State and the construction of local identities: dilemma of tourism policy in Mae
Hong Son, Northern of Thailand, proceeding report, the 25th international symposium on ‘Travel and Discover Japan; to create culture by human migration and traffic’, organized by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 7-12 March 2005. (in Japanese)

A Variety of Japanese Teas. Journal of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, 5(1), 63-75 (2005)

Japan: the overview of Longstay Promotion, Journal of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University 5(1),134-142 (2004)

Translation works

How to cook Thai Food: 10 kinds, produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, 2005 (from Thai to Japanese)

Kaizen Textbook, written by E.Katakura, Tokyo Automobiles Manufacture, Engine Machinering Division in 1996, the Choonhavan Training Center of Rachamongkol Nakorn Rachasrima, Nakorn Rachasrima province,1997, 134 pps (from Japanese to Thai)

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