The study objective was to check the impact of personal characteristics, financial constraints and fish processing methods on the sustainable income generation of the value added products of local fishery in Ranong Province, Thailand. For this purpose, the data was collected from 80 fishermen from the Ranong province of Thailand which was analyzed from both of the statistics of descriptive and inferential. The key findings had shown that majority of the people 70 percent used traditional kiln for the processing of their fishes whereas 24 percent were using the fried fishes within the vegetable oil. It was also found that most of respondents were sourced their credits from their personal savings 46 percent, cooperatives 29 percent and from family and friends was 18 percent for the processing the fish activities and 7 percent from micro finance banks. The respondents had generated their income (gross profit) of THB 2247.80 from roasted fish, THB 1123.90 from dried fish, and THB1669.79 from fried fish. The regression model results had shown that respondent’s personal characteristics, constraints and processing methods had greater influence on the sustainable income generations.

Extensive research has been carried out to examine the customer behavior in the hotel industry. The loyalty behavior is extensively studied in the literature in hotel industry; however, the phenomenon of loyalty is rarely addressed in the non-hotel homestay guesthouse businesses. Particularly, the loyalty behavior among the non-hotel homestay guesthouse business is not addressed by the literature in Bangkok Metropolis, Thailand. Hence, this study is an attempt to carried out loyalty behavior along with service innovation, service quality, satisfaction and trust among the non-hotel homestay guesthouse business of Thailand. Mixed method research approach is carried out to examine the relationship between variables. Questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews are carried out for data collection. It is found that; service innovation and service quality have positive role to promote the business of non-hotel homestay guesthouse.  The promotion of service innovation and service quality increases the satisfaction and trust which further causes to increase the loyalty behavior. This study has vital implications for the management of non-hotel homestay guesthouse which further causes to increase the loyalty behavior among the customers through service innovation, service quality, satisfaction and trust.

Family businesses in Thailand are part of the country's economic development and are essential for Thailand's GDP. For many years, the family businesses have been strengthened by a family constitution that focuses on the succession of the business to a new generation that comes from family members. The study was conducted in Bangkok and its metropolitan to assess the considering factors that impact the business success of the family. The leaders of the traditional family business have no business succession planning, their successors lack potential, and they have no positive attitudes towards the family business. As a consequence, the succession of the family business was unsuccessful. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were utilized to achieve this study’s set objective. This study used multi-stage sampling as a quantitative research method. The sample comprised 560 people who were heirs of family business entrepreneurs from the second generation to the present age in Bangkok and its metropolitan areas. The study results found that the technology, innovation, attitude of family members, responsibility of family members, leadership, potential, and family constitution significantly participate in the family business succession process. The study contributes practically and also to literature.

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