{"id":29960,"date":"2021-03-20T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/20\/thailands-empty-beach-resorts-hope-vaccines-will-put-them-back-in-the-sun"},"modified":"2021-03-20T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:47:27","slug":"thailands-empty-beach-resorts-hope-vaccines-will-put-them-back-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29960","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s empty beach resorts hope vaccines will put them back in the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to reopen to vaccinated tourists include short quarantine in popular holiday spots like Phuket and Koh Samui<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s Phuket island used to vibrate with life. Before the pandemic, March was part of peak season and the resort\u2019s long white beaches were packed with tourists from Europe, Australia, North America and China. At night, backpackers would flock to beach-front bars and on the hills stretching inland wealthy tourists would eat at five-star restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Phuket is a ghost town. The shockwaves of Covid-19 have reduced daily visitor numbers from up to 50,000 down to just hundreds. But there is hope that plans to bring tourists back could change the fortunes of the beach town, and the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/20\/thailands-empty-beach-resorts-hope-vaccines-will-put-them-back-in-the-sun\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to reopen to vaccinated tourists include short quarantine in popular holiday spots like Phuket and Koh SamuiThailand\u2019s Phuket island used to vibrate with life. Before the pandemic, March was part of peak season and the resort\u2019s long white beaches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1898,"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":[41,1066,93,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-thailand","category-travel","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\/29960","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\/1898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29960\/revisions\/29961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}