This comparative study is about the attitude and behavior of Thai and Foreign consumers towards eco-friendly product. Since nowadays, green marketing or sustainable marketing becomes an issue that most firms tend to focus on. This is because the more concern of the consumers in the society about this issue, in order to meet the needs of consumers, eco-friendly products and services have been developed and launch into the market. There are some popular eco-friendly products in many countries especially in Europe and Japan. The topic of this study comes up from the question that if this kind of product is available in Thailand, will it be able to success as in other countries or not. Therefore, the objective of this study is to study about the attitude and behavior of both Thai and foreign consumers towards eco-friendly product and to compare the difference of attitude and behavior towards eco-friendly product between Thai and foreign consumers in order to find whether there is an opportunity of the eco-friendly in Thai market or not.
Result of the study shows that for attitude part Thai and Foreign respondents, have the same positive attitude about Environmental Knowledge and 4Ps accordingly. However, for the Psychological factor, Thai and foreign respondents view it as the factors they are least agree and there is a significantly different of attitude between the two groups.
For Behavior part, the questions in the questionnaire ask whether the respondents have ever bought the eco-friendly product or not. The results show that from the total respondents, most of them have ever bout eco-friendly product, 99% of Thai respondents and 96% of foreign respondents. The product has been bought the most frequency by both Thai and foreign respondents are the same categories which are food product or organic food and electrical appliance.
In conclusion, from the result shows there is opportunity for green products or eco-friendly product in Thai market.