Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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The Agency of the Monks
The monks are in charge of their temples and the tourists are the ones that want to enter as one of their tourist activities. They really work hard to maintain the kind of the sacred atmosphere of the temple. And they also helped to benefit the community members by like leasing part of the like outside area of the temple to put up little shops so that when tourists come, they have a place to buy souvenirs or something.
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