The metaverse is an innovation that has created the recent phenomenon of new tourism experiences from a virtual reality of a smart tourism destination. However, the existing metaverse platform demonstrated that the technology is still difficult to develop, as the service provider did not disclose the internal mechanisms to developers, and it was a closed system, which could not use or share the user’s data across platforms. The aim of this paper was to design and develop an open metaverse platform called the “extensible metaverse”, which would allow new developers to independently develop the capabilities of the metaverse system. The acquisition of this new technology was conducted through requirements analysis, then the analysis and design of the new system architecture, followed by the implementation, and the evaluation of the system by the users. The results found that the extended metaverse was divided into three tiers that created labels, characters, and virtual objects. Furthermore, the linking tier combined the 3D elements, and the deployment tier compiled the results of the link to use all three parts by using the Blender program, Godot Engine, and PHP + WebGL as their respective key mechanisms. This system was tested in Suphan Buri province, Thailand, which was evaluated by 428 users. The results of the metaverse satisfaction, created tourism experience, and overall satisfaction of the variation of the satisfaction of using the metaverse were 86.0%, 79.7%, and 92.9%, respectively. The relative Chi-square (χ²/df) of 1.253 indicated that the model was suitable. The comparative fit index (CFI) was 0.984, the goodness-of-fit index (GFI) was 0.998, and the model based on the research hypothesis was consistent with the empirical data. The root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) was 0.024. In conclusion, the extended metaverse is more flexible than other platforms and also creates the user’s satisfaction and tourism experience in the smart destination to support sustainable tourism.

Energy expenditures are now the main cost for two businesses that generate huge incomes each year for Thailand, which are agribusiness and community tourism. As entrepreneurs have to share a portion of their income as energy utility bills each month. This is a factor which results in them getting a low net return. Recognizing the need for energy management for sustainable use in agriculture focusing on durian cultivation in Kantharalak district and community tourism in Sisaket province, this research used a newly developed optimization algorithm called Kouprey-inspired optimization (KIO) to assist energy management in smart agriculture to support community-based tourism. This was initiated with a smart energy node to reduce the energy and labor costs for volcanic durian planting and accommodation in community-based tourist attractions in Sisaket province. The results showed that the combination of the KIO algorithm and smart energy node allowed for efficient management of the volcanic durian orchards and the use of clean energy in combination with traditional electric power for volcanic durian cultivation and community-based tourism. As the research area in Sisaket province had eight hours of solar power per day, this was sufficient for smart agriculture and community-based tourism in the daytime and in the evening. Furthermore, this allowed operators in both the agricultural and tourism sectors to reduce the labor costs of the durian orchard business and community-based tourism by about 30%, and in the energy sector, the costs could be reduced by 50%. As a consequence, this prototype would lead to the expansion and trial in durian orchards in the Eastern Economic Corridor area, which is an important economic area producing durian for export of the country.

Mural painting is a branch of fine art that reflects the excellent culture of Thailand and the development of creative products based on local resources to add value to the community. Promoting community-based tourism is implementing knowledge and findings from the study of mural paintings to be developed into creative products to create value-added local wisdom knowledge. The objectives of this research were to 1) design creative products based on local wisdom derived from mural paintings and 2) organise training and a workshop to pass on the knowledge of creating creative products based on the wisdom of the mural paintings of Suphan Buri Province, Thailand. The sample group consisted of 1) 75 people members of the community who set up murals in Suphan Buri Province, 2) five experts for evaluated product prototypes, 3) 400 tourists to satisfaction products, and 4) 22 participants for knowledge transfer. The research tools consisted of 1) The wisdom-based creative product prototype assessment form, 2. The wisdom-based creative product satisfaction questionnaire, and 3) The knowledge transfer project satisfaction assessment form. The data were analysed using mean, standard deviation, and content analysis. The research results were as follows: 1. The creative products of paper stencils framed from Wat Pratoosan and Wat No Bhuddhangkun had an overall satisfaction at a high level. The overall satisfaction was high for creative products using the 12 zodiac signs from Wat Chi Pa Khao to design and print on T-shirts. 2. The overall satisfaction in the knowledge transfer activities was at the highest level.

The objectives of this study were: 1) to study and synthesize the status of management and standard of university library in Thailand to ASEAN community, 2) to study the status of management for preparation of university library in Thailand to ASEAN community, 3) to develop university library in Thailand to ASEAN community model and 4) to propose the university library in Thailand to ASEAN community model. The samples consisted of 5 directors or experts of university library to study the first phase, 238 staff and 942 users of the university libraries to study the second phase, 14 directors or experts of university library to study the third phase and 5 experts to study the fourth phase. The data was collected by 1) interview form, 2) questionnaire, 3) Item Objective Congruence form (IOC) and 4) the questionnaire to propose the university library in Thailand to ASEAN community model from experts. They analyzed with content analysis, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test. The findings of this study were as follows: 1) Management of the university library began to prepare for the ASEAN community. The management policy of university library was from the policy of the university to identify the genetic activities of the library. Operational issues on the development of learning resources to support education in ASEAN. The libraries must have a policy of support for the ASEAN community, budgeting for management and promotional activity / project support ASEAN community, personnel readiness, instructional services in the region, academic service and research in the region, service search and development of digital content in more than one language, the environment of libraries to learning atmosphere ASEAN, cooperation between libraries in the region and quality assurance compliance with the quality assurance support services of ASEAN community. 2). The management of university library in Thailand preparation for the ASEAN community from performance of libraries’ staff were generally rated at “medium” (= 3.33, S.D. = 0.76) and the opinions libraries’ users were generally rated at “high” (= 3.72, S.D. = 0.61). 3) The model for the university library in Thailand to ASEAN community consisted of 7 components as followed: management, servicing, personnel, information resources, information resources management and knowledge warehouse, learning environment and cooperation network. And 4) the opinions of experts in the model for the university library in Thailand to ASEAN community were generally rated “highest” (= 4.86, S.D = 0.16). Key words: University Library, ASEAN Community, Library model, Thailand.