By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-18 07:36:45 | Updated at 2025-03-19 00:51:55
17 hours ago
Hong Kong’s leader has called on the operator of Kai Tak Sports Park to improve the mechanisms of crisis management and information dissemination, saying that some arrangements at the newly opened venue have “caused issues”.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made the call on Tuesday, a week ahead of the annual Hong Kong Sevens, one of the city’s largest sporting events that will take place from Friday next week to Sunday at the 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium. It had been held at the Hong Kong Stadium for the past three decades.
“I attach great importance to the Kai Tak Sports Park operating smoothly and in line with the expectation of residents,” he said ahead of his weekly meeting with the government’s key decision-making Executive Council.
“The park has already been open for a month, there are some arrangements that caused issues, we need to deal with them well.”
Since its official opening on March 1, the venue has suffered a series of blunders, including ticket touts allegedly helping visitors enter the stadium for a fee of about HK$1,000 (US$128) per person and snooker fans being asked to leave midway through a tournament.
Lee said that the park’s management should enhance its mechanisms in three fields, including crisis management and dissemination of information to the public.
“I have already demanded the Kai Tak Sports Park do some work on building their mechanisms and enhancing them,” he said.
