Kongsak hopes that the host of the National and Youth Games will join hands with the private sector to upgrade the accommodation for athletes during the competition.
Dr. Kongsak Yodmanee, Governor of the Sports Authority of Thailand, came out to reveal the issue of promoting and supporting the welfare of athletes in the National Games, especially the issue of athlete accommodation, which many people have reflected on wanting athletes from each province to sleep in hotels for their convenience. In fact, this is something that the SAT or the hosts in each province hope to make happen and do as much as possible.

However, it is still not possible or can be done to cover all 100 percent because if we evaluate the expenses per head for both athletes and officials, there are more than 10,000 people, which requires a large budget of several million baht.
“For the welfare and accommodation of athletes, we actually have 2-3 approaches. The first approach is that the original budget that the SAT gave to each host province, which is a budget to support the organization of the competition, can be set aside to use and then additional money can be obtained from the local government. It is understood that there is no local money.
The local government is quite ready and has a sufficient budget. However, there are legal restrictions. The law does not allow for everything to be used. For example, regarding accommodation fees, local government money cannot be used. When it is like this, there is a discussion that the province may have to set aside the budget from the SAT to use for accommodation welfare. But request other budgets from the local government to use in other areas that have been planned.”
“The second option is to unlock, which requires cooperation from the Ministry of Interior. The Ministry of Interior must cooperate in unlocking so that local budgets can be used more widely according to the objectives? If we talk about the original conditions, local governments themselves would not dare. Because they are afraid of being audited by the Office of the Auditor General. The third option is to increase the money, which could be from the National Sports Development Fund.
The third option seems easy to do, but in reality, the budget is not enough in 1 year. Because the budget from the fund must be divided and allocated to various sports associations that are increasing continuously and various sports events that are coming in all the time. Which is contrary to the fund money that is continuously decreasing. People drink less alcohol and smoke less because people are taking care of their health more.”
The SAT Governor also said that regarding this Act. We have discussed how in the future we can provide the fund with additional financial channels. Not just relying on the budget from alcohol or tobacco taxes alone. We have to look at the law and amend it to open up more sources of funding for the fund. This could be a limitation in the third option.
Which is that if we add this budget to other competitions that we are responsible for. In addition to the National Games. There are also the National Youth Games, the เว็บพนันออนไลน์ UFABET สมัครง่าย โปรโมชั่นมากมาย Games for the Disabled, and the Senior Games. If we support them, we might have to support all of them. We have to accept that the total proportion will not be small at all.
“The possibility that all the athletes who come to compete will stay in hotels may be possible in theory. But in practice it is not easy because of the problem of having to spend a lot of money. *We have discussed that if we cannot support the welfare of hotels for all athletes and officials. We may change to apartments. Which should be cheaper and possible.
We must ask for cooperation from the private sector to provide support. Such as in Chonburi, where there are many private companies. We can ask for the private sector to help with accommodation, allowing athletes to use it as accommodation during the competition. This should help athletes rest comfortably to some extent,” the SAT governor concluded.