{"id":50408,"date":"2022-11-21T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/21\/paradise-paused-asia-pacific-tourism-continues-to-lag-after-the-covid-induced-freeze"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:08:03","slug":"paradise-paused-asia-pacific-tourism-continues-to-lag-after-the-covid-induced-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50408","title":{"rendered":"Paradise paused: Asia-Pacific tourism continues to lag after the Covid induced freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign arrivals slowly return, but cost of living pressures and China\u2019s zero-Covid policy weigh on visitor numbers<\/p>\n<p>Mari Kishigawa\u2019s family have been in the tourism business for decades. In the remote Pacific country of Palau, on an even more remote archipelago, Mari runs the 11-room Carp Island Resort, a 30km boat journey from Palau\u2019s commercial centre, Koror.<\/p>\n<p>But beneath canopies of palm trees, bordered by crystal clear water, Mari is reassessing her future.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/21\/paradise-paused-asia-pacific-tourism-continues-to-lag-after-the-covid-induced-freeze\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign arrivals slowly return, but cost of living pressures and China\u2019s zero-Covid policy weigh on visitor numbersMari Kishigawa\u2019s family have been in the tourism business for decades. In the remote Pacific country of Palau, on an even more remote arc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3445,"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":[41,413,88,1439,93,2057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bali","category-japan","category-palau","category-thailand","category-tourism-australia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50408","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\/3445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50408\/revisions\/50409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}