The objective of the research is to identify the problems and needs in developing the English communication skills in the workplace of front office hotel staff in Nakhon Ratchasima province. The sample of the study are 420 front office hotel staff in management and operational level selected by using the area random sampling. The data collection approach employed in this study was mix method both questionnaire and interview. The collected data were then analyzed and compared by using frequency percentage mean and standard deviation. The findings were as follows: 1. Four English language skills (listening speaking reading and writing) are essential for all staff and listening is considered as the most important followed by speaking. 2. The main problems of using English in the workplace are writing and reading due to lack of confidence unfamiliarity with the grammatical structure and vocabulary. 3. All staff are desirable to develop English communication skills especially speaking and listening in different situation duties and responsibilities.

This research aims to develop a road accident prevention system to reduce the risk of accident a case study of Kamsakasang Junction Non-Thai District Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The target audiences are: traffic experts and 15 civil engineers to evaluated the developed system. From the study of traffic problem and risk areas there are 7 aspects to be improved: 1) Installation of traffic light 2) Installation of lighting and changing control cabinet 3) Improvement of the traffic island 4) Changing lower traffic island to higher one 5) Painting reflecting colour and reflecting light on the edge of the island 6) Drawing traffic line 7) Installation of warning signs. From the development of accident prevention system and evaluated by the experts; the overall evaluation of the system was the best (x = 4.66 SD = 0.41). There were 6 highest rated aspects and 1 very good aspect. The highest rated were installation of Vehicle Actuated traffic light (x = 4.92 SD = 0.15). As result of the development of road accident prevention system in 2014 the accident statistics were reduced by 53.85% compared to the pre-installation period. The statistics are reduced so it can be concluded that the road accident prevention system can be used effectively and it can be applied to other risk areas.

Strong positive correlations exist among management of upstream factors services or midstream factors and the level of satisfaction of tourists of downstream factors. Upstream factors have the following conelated coefficient with each of the midstream factors respectively: 0.656 for accommodations 0.593 for transportation 0.610 for the handling of excursion and activities on the ground and 0.552 for foods and crafts. Midstream factors correlate with downstream factors with a correlation coefficient of 0.815 And upstream factors have a correlated coefficient of 0.811 with downstream factors. The upstream factors of values and culture have the most direct effect on midstream factors and downstream factors. Middtream factors have the most direct effect on downstream factors by accommodation.

The purposes of this research were : 1) to study the business operations of Mee Korat small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province 2) to identify problems of Mee Korat small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province 3) to compare the business problems’ levels of Mee Korat small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province according to business operation problems and 4) to propose guidelines for developing Mee Korat business of small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The research population was 35 Mee Korat small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The statistical analyses used in this study were frequency percentage mean standard deviation and one way analysis of variance. The research results can be summarized as follows: 1) For the business operations of Mee Korat the business owners mainly produced Mee Korat products and sold them together with sauce. They have run the business for 16 years with at least 10 employees using personal selling strategies for the products. According to monthly sales reports there were less than 10000 packs of Mee Korat products and the monthly income became less than 200000 baht. 2) The small business owners faced up to medium level business problems. When considering each problem from the most to the least the problems were products sales production personnel finance and management respectively. 3) The comparison of all the level of business problems of Mee Korat small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province showed that the problems included types of products for selling length of business management number of employees business marketing strategies amount of monthly production and monthly income of the business problems of Mee Korat small business owners in Nakhon Ratchasima Province had no statistically significant differences at the .05 level. And 4) the guidelines for developing Mee Korat business were as follows: The small business owners should improve vermicelli quality to prolong the shelf life of vermicelli and provide a variety of flavors of vermicelli. The small business owners should modernize the types of vermicelli and build an online distribution channel. They should also find lending sources with low interest rates to improve business so as to compete with competitors. There should be an implementation of job rotation for employees/members to increase production capacity. Moreover the small business owners should offer more opportunities in administration for new visionary staff and the former administrators should give advice to new administrators to improve the business growth and compete with more competitors.