The parents perception of the benefits of horse riding for children in Thailand

This report was aimed to examine parents’ perception toward the benefits of horse riding of their children by exploring on how parents perceive about horse riding, what benefits or improvement their children actually gain when participating in horse riding, how they decide to provide horse riding as a recreational sport for children, and what are the trigger points for the horse riding activity. In Thailand, during the past five years, horse riding has been becoming a better known sport. The industry continues grows a lot especially within Bangkok area. One of reasons behind this growth is the larger number of riders participating and becoming members of Thailand Equestrian Federation. Apart from being just only a recreational sport where children can spend their time with, horse riding provides extra benefits in both physical and psychological terms.This research will be collected data from fifty parents of young riders in Thailand by surveys. Non-probability sampling method will be used to obtain target respondents.