The new
tourism face of Buriram’s events concerns
mainly on sport namely football (soccer) and car
racing. This is evident with of the construction
of a new football stadium called Thunder Castle
Stadium that belongs to Buriram United which
has 24,000 seats and costed approximately 400
million Baht opened in June 2011 (Fry et al.,
2013), such cost and development represents
the emergence of football in Buriram as a large
factor in its tourism.