Apirat opens professionally run Army-owned hotel as part of reforms

By The Nation

 

General Apirat Kongsompong (left)

 

Army chief General Apirat Kongsompong presided over a ceremony to open Seapine Recreation Centre in Prachuap Khiri Khan province after appointing a professional management team to run the hotel on Friday (August 28).

 

 

The move was under the memorandum of understanding in the use of state property in businesses for Royal Thai Army welfare signed with the Treasury Department in February 17.

 

The Army has appointed a group of personnel with expertise in hotel management to run the hotel under the supervision of the Army Welfare Investigation Committee to make sure that military personnel and their families will continue to receive privileges to use the services.

 

The administrator will receive wages from the Army depending on the business performance, while they have made a plan to renovate the hotel and enhance staff potential to meet standards.

 

"It is a good start after cooperating with the Ministry of Finance and since the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic, while the facility development was transparent and would benefit military personnel," Apirat said.

"To proceed under the Office of the Prime Minister’s regulation, the Army will send income to the Treasury Department every year," Apirat added.

 

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Why does the Army need to have a hotel of there own. If it was near a base and was for transferring officers or staff to live in while base housing was being prepared due to the current resident transferring out, well then I can understand. I also could understand using it for members of the armed services going to the nearby base for training. However, to have a hotel possibly used by tourists, for tourism, and to make money is not what an Army is for. This country and its money making military units is just showing how corrupt it really is. Running boxing stadiums, leasng golf courses etc. Purely heretical lunacy. An army is for protecting a country in times of war and peace, not for making money, no matter how open about reforms they wish to be.

Edited August 29, 20205 yr by ThailandRyan

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Why does the Army need to have a hotel of there own. If it was near a base and was for transferring officers or staff to live in while base housing was being prepared due to the current resident transferring out, well then I can understand. I also could understand using it for members of the armed services going to the nearby base for training. However, to have a hotel possibly used by tourists, for tourism, and to make money is not what an Army is for. This country and its money making military units is just showing how corrupt it really is. Running boxing stadiums, leading golf courses etc. Purely heretical lunacy.

Yes your right.   "while the facility development was transparent"  So Stevie Wonder could see it!  "and would benefit military personnel"  does that include other ranks?  I doubt it very much.

54 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

memorandum of understanding in the use of state property in businesses for Royal Thai Army welfare signed with the Treasury Department in February 17.

more and more, the thai army in dimensions they shouldn't be

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

after appointing a professional management team to run the hotel

in  Thailand ????

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

This will sit fine with the hotel association. Here they are in deep trouble because of the pandemic. upon that the army goes and open up more competition with a state run hotel that can survive on state money. It a staggering step towards total communism. I am sure the suffering hotel owners will thank their army and government for this fantastic gift.

The word professional is unfortunate as they are most unprofessional.

Professional army's don't run businesses they operate at the behest of their government for the people, but then in Thailand the government is the army...

16 minutes ago, colinneil said:

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

Or many other irrelevant things.

Why do they own TV stations for example? I go to an army run hospital.

There's just no need for the large military in Thailand.

Could be a good tourist attraction stick a few tanks around the pool you guys have no imagination 6am Stand by your beds hands of cocks hands on socks.

Then later you can visit the prison

52 minutes ago, colinneil said:

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

 

Yes….hotels are a bit over the top. They should concentrate on their primary responsibilities of taking huge commissions on unnecessary military purchases, threatening students, terrorizing protesters, and staging coups.

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 20205 yr by Hayduke

3 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

 

Yes….hotels are a bit over the top. They should stick to their primary responsibilities of taking huge commissions on unnecessary military purchases and staging coups.

 

 

Absolutely right those brown envelopes are not your standard letter size but actually the Larger A4 size that would hold a manuscript, so yes Thank you for your donation to the armies charity fundraiser called "The General needs a new Ferrari and a bigger Mansion"

I thought their sole purpose was to protect the rich elite and stage coups! Hotels? Golf courses? I guess they'll need more attack helicopters and tanks now.

 

 

Edited August 30, 20205 yr by PatOngo

57 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

There's just no need for the large military in Thailand.

Oh yes there is! How many do you think it takes to suppress 60 million people? ???? 

9 minutes ago, faraday said:

Hopefully the guests are not told this in the morning:

"Hands off c**ks, put on socks"

????

Ha ha ha! That's sparked my imagination now.

The Officer In Charge of guests makes sure the Sergeant Major looks after their every need:

"You 'horrible little guest, you. What do you think you're doing, lying in bed at me like that? It's jankers for you - start peeling those spuds once you've done twenty-five laps of the sports complex."

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Ha ha ha! That's sparked my imagination now.

The Officer In Charge of guests makes sure the Sergeant Major looks after their every need:

"You 'horrible little guest, you. What do you think you're doing, lying in bed at me like that? It's jankers for you - start peeling those spuds once you've done twenty-five laps of the sports complex."

What are you looking at Maggot

They have absolutely no shame ............!!!!

More like Dads Army 

33 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

There's just no need for the large military in Thailand.

Oh yes there is! How many do you think it takes to suppress 60 million people? ???? 

Oh scheizer, yes. That's my specialist subject - missing the bleedin' obvious.

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

No, send them to do soldering in an electronics factory - more useful that way and they might stop shooting Thai's.

5 minutes ago, ben2talk said:

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

No, send them to do soldering in an electronics factory - more useful that way and they might stop shooting Thai's.

For flux sake, their resistance is low enough as it is. Are suggesting putting them on a charge of battery?

Not as unusual as one might think....the USA, UK and French certainly have their own 'hotels'...I guess many other nations do.......

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

Given that there is a body of thought that holds that they couldn't fight sleep, perhaps going into the hotel business makes sense?

2 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Given that there is a body of thought that holds that they couldn't fight sleep, perhaps going into the hotel business makes sense?

As long as no one's caught 'sleeping without written authorisation'.

Not really news they already have a hotel on the beach at Wing 5 in PKK.

 

Its mostly used by army families but tourists can stay there although some dates eg weekend/holidays are blocked out for thais /army 

Hopefully no low ranking soldiers got screwed over on the corruption deals.

 

Wouldn't want another terminal 21 scenario.

 

I thought they'd promised to stay out of these types of private enterprises after that? 

In February this year, after the mass shooting in Korat by a disgruntled soldier, Apirat tearfully promised swift reforms to how the army handles their state properties. 5 months later he comes up with this. A hotel. Reforms done. Khap khun khrap..

Edited August 30, 20205 yr by klauskunkel

Wouldn't be so bad if they kept all of the Chinese tourists there after Thailand opens up.

The top floor will be reserved for VIP gamblers (sorry old age bridge players) so that they have a safe place to play bridge. 

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

The army should stick to soldiering, they have no business being involved in hotels.

 

Hell, I wish all armies throughout the entire planet earth would go into the hotel business and cease this insanity of fighting wars.