{"id":38374,"date":"2021-10-26T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/businesses-in-thailand-urge-government-to-reverse-alcohol-ban"},"modified":"2021-10-26T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:17:49","slug":"businesses-in-thailand-urge-government-to-reverse-alcohol-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38374","title":{"rendered":"Businesses in Thailand urge government to reverse alcohol ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borders to open after 18 months of Covid restrictions that did \u2018catastrophic damage\u2019 to tourism 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>Businesses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/thailand\">Thailand<\/a> have urged the government to lift restrictions on alcohol sales as the country reopens to tourists, warning the measures are destroying its famous nightlife and risk deterring visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/12\/thailand-to-reopen-for-some-vaccinated-tourists-from-november\">plans to reopen its borders<\/a> to fully vaccinated travellers from 45 countries on 1 November, after 18 months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/03\/thailand-reports-record-covid-19-cases-as-concerns-mount-about-vaccine-shortages\">restrictions<\/a> that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/20\/thailands-empty-beach-resorts-hope-vaccines-will-put-them-back-in-the-sun\">devastated its tourism industry<\/a>. Just weeks before the reopening, many bars, clubs and restaurants are closed or struggling to survive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/26\/businesses-in-thailand-urge-government-to-reverse-alcohol-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borders to open after 18 months of Covid restrictions that did \u2018catastrophic damage\u2019 to tourism sectorCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBusinesses in Thailand have urged the government to lift restrictions on alcohol sales as &#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":[376,41,1066,93,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","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\/38374","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=38374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions\/38375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}