{"id":42346,"date":"2022-03-11T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/backpackers-return-brings-glimmer-of-hope-for-thailand-tourism-revival"},"modified":"2022-03-11T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:00:19","slug":"backpackers-return-brings-glimmer-of-hope-for-thailand-tourism-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42346","title":{"rendered":"Backpackers\u2019 return brings glimmer of hope for Thailand tourism revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chiang Mai tourism slowly picks up after two years of despair, though some call for more relaxed Covid entry rules to entice visitors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Read all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After months of absence, Chiang Mai\u2019s waterfalls, night markets and hostels are once again filling up with a familiar sight: backpackers.<\/p>\n<p>While Thailand was once a haven for budget travellers, Covid-19 devastated the tourism industry, which is only now starting to take tentative steps towards reopening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/backpackers-return-brings-glimmer-of-hope-for-thailand-tourism-revival\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiang Mai tourism slowly picks up after two years of despair, though some call for more relaxed Covid entry rules to entice visitorsRead all our coronavirus coverageAfter months of absence, Chiang Mai\u2019s waterfalls, night markets and hostels are once a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2949,"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":[41,1066,93,2057,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-thailand","category-tourism-australia","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\/42346","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\/2949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346\/revisions\/42347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}