{"id":14152,"date":"2020-02-10T23:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/come-back-soon-coronavirus-wreaks-havoc-on-global-tourism-hotspots"},"modified":"2020-02-10T23:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:07:16","slug":"come-back-soon-coronavirus-wreaks-havoc-on-global-tourism-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14152","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Come back soon&#8217;: coronavirus wreaks havoc on global tourism hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreak huge blow for Thailand, Japan and Italy, which rely heavily on Chinese visitors<\/p>\n<p>Most February evenings, it\u2019s a struggle to push through the crowds to get to Yanakawee Srialam\u2019s souvenir stall in Bangkok\u2019s Ratchada Train night market. It\u2019s peak tourism season and the market\u2019s alleyways would normally be heaving with visitors.<\/p>\n<p>But Chinese tourists, who make up the vast majority of Srialam\u2019s usual customers, have all but disappeared. His best-selling items now include disposable face masks, which have surpassed sales of souvenirs including pad Thai fridge magnets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/come-back-soon-coronavirus-wreaks-havoc-on-global-tourism-hotspots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreak huge blow for Thailand, Japan and Italy, which rely heavily on Chinese visitorsMost February evenings, it\u2019s a struggle to push through the crowds to get to Yanakawee Srialam\u2019s souvenir stall in Bangkok\u2019s Ratchada Train night market. It\u2019s peak &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,451,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14155,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions\/14155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}