{"id":25775,"date":"2020-12-17T19:17:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/thais-pray-love-matchmaking-river-cruise-trips-covid-tour"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:17:49","slug":"cruise-pray-love-thais-offered-matchmaking-river-trips-to-holy-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25775","title":{"rendered":"Cruise, pray, love: Thais offered matchmaking river trips to holy sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Single people invited on free tour with fortune-teller in attempt to boost Covid-stricken travel sector<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Single people in Thailand have been invited to pray for love on a river cruise to nine temples, one of a series of matchmaking trips designed to boost domestic travel.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s tourism sector, which relies heavily on international visitors, has looked for novel ways to boost revenue over recent months. Thai Airways has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/04\/wings-and-a-prayer-thai-airways-launches-sacred-flight-over-buddhist-sites\">flights that cruise over holy sites<\/a>, put bags made from life vests and slide rafts on sale, and opened an airline-themed cafe selling inflight meals in Bangkok. It has also opened its Airbus and Boeing flight simulators to the public.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/thais-pray-love-matchmaking-river-cruise-trips-covid-tour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single people invited on free tour with fortune-teller in attempt to boost Covid-stricken travel sectorCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSingle people in Thailand have been invited to pray for love on a river cruise to nine te&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,6,1066,1788,78,93,1088,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-dating","category-life-and-style","category-thailand","category-travel-leisure","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\/25775","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25776,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions\/25776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}