{"id":33607,"date":"2021-07-01T15:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/phuket-reopens-tourists-covid-thai-borders-close-virus-thailand-island-travel"},"modified":"2021-07-01T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:45:03","slug":"phuket-reopens-to-tourists-one-year-after-covid-forced-thai-borders-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33607","title":{"rendered":"Phuket reopens to tourists one year after Covid forced Thai borders to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scheme requires tourists to stay on island for 14 days if they wish to travel elsewhere in Thailand<\/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>The Thai island of Phuket has reopened to some foreign tourists, more than one year after the pandemic forced the country\u2019s borders to close, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/20\/thailands-empty-beach-resorts-hope-vaccines-will-put-them-back-in-the-sun\">devastating the economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 400 international tourists were expected to arrive in Phuket on Thursday, through a scheme that officials hope could help to revive the country\u2019s tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/phuket-reopens-tourists-covid-thai-borders-close-virus-thailand-island-travel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheme requires tourists to stay on island for 14 days if they wish to travel elsewhere in ThailandCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Thai island of Phuket has reopened to some foreign tourists, more than one year after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,6,1066,93,527,1088,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-thailand","category-travel","category-travel-leisure","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607\/revisions\/33632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}