Dilemma 'Snowball' Economic ASIA Games

If it goes according to plan, it should be in 2019 the Vietnamese people will welcome the arrival of a contingent of athletes from various countries in Asia on the mat ASIAN Games 18. The tournament will be a great berksala tournament first held in a country that has just 'finished' war in the mid-1970s.

But on April 24, 2014, Vietnam decided to resign as the host.

Despite being a crazy country sports, especially soccer, the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung, said that Vietnam does not have enough experience in organizing sports event on a large scale. He also expressed economic problems as one of the factors behind the resignation.

According to Tan Dung, host can indeed get a "contribution to the socio-economic development, raise the country's image, and increase bargaining power." But, if the implementation is not successful, then the effect will be reversed, as stated in a letter the prime minister's official release of the Vietnamese government.

Vietnam's resignation news and was greeted enthusiastically by Indonesia. Sports Committee of Indonesia through the agency, the two cities, namely Jakarta and Palembang is proposed as a substitute host Hanoi.

Not only KONI, Acting Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Jakarta also wants to be selected as the host. In addition to hope there will be improvements in infrastructure such as the renovation of the Bung Karno Stadium in preparation to host ASIAN Games later, officials familiar with the greeting called Ahok is also dreaming of going to the accelerated development of the BMW Park Stadium as well as other infrastructure.

In addition to the path of Mass Rapid Transportation (MRT), Ahok wants the construction of the Light Rapid Transit, kite loop line KRL, and the city bus system can also be completed before ASIAN Games begin.

Economic incentives were often used as an excuse to organize a grand event.

For example happened in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In 1997, the city was chosen by the government of Thailand to host sport competitions in Southeast Asia, or the SEA Games. The city that was once more famous for its natural beauty and does not have such a wide range of modern facilities and endowed with several projects: the construction of the main stadium, sports complex iolah, freeway, and also the city ring road as well as other infrastructure development.

Various tourist attractions for the tourists SEA Games was built, as well as the Night Safari, Chiang Mai Flora Project, as well as the International Convention Center.

These developments in turn encourage the development of Chiang Mai as a city. Ease of access and infrastructure and make Chiang Mai bertansformasi so for modern industrial city today.

But not all the 'snowball' of the economy have a positive effect or will be as big as one might imagine. For example, the South African World Cup that took place in 2010. In the grand football event, the South African government issued approximately 3.9 billion dollars for the construction of stadiums and other infrastructure.

By issuing these funds, they expect a change in the image of the country and also the increase in tourists to South Africa. But, in fact, when the World Cup, there are only about 200,000 tourists who visit, and only a total of 300,000 tourists during the year 2010.

"That is, the government spends nearly 13 thousand dollars to every tourist who successfully brought in," said Johan Fourie, a professor of economics at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa on CNN Money.

An economic study conducted by Citibank in the cities of the organizers of the last 10 Olympic Games shows that the economic boost has actually been absorbed by the organizers just before the competition starts. This is because most spending is on infrastructure such as sports stadiums and other facilities. Moreover, there is no economic added value that can be obtained from these facilities.

Indonesia Olympic Committee president Rita Subowo, said that it would try to avoid wastage. Moreover, Jakarta and Palembang has had the experience to host the SEA Games, so that most of the infrastructure is already held Indonesia and only needs to be renovated.

For any athlete lodging Rita said that he would use the apartment provided around Jakarta. But that does not mean he does not want anything with their development ASIAN Games.

"Jakarta itself should have velodrome international scale," he said at the end of July.