{"id":9107,"date":"2021-01-16T04:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3118001\/coronavirus-thailand-offered-luxury-quarantine-tourists"},"modified":"2021-01-16T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:29:30","slug":"coronavirus-thailand-offered-luxury-quarantine-to-tourists-to-revive-economy-but-hardly-anyone-turned-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/coronavirus-thailand-offered-luxury-quarantine-to-tourists-to-revive-economy-but-hardly-anyone-turned-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Thailand offered luxury quarantine to tourists to revive economy, but hardly anyone turned up"},"content":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites & Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences that can have their own pool and courtyard.Yet more than three months after the resort and more than a hundred like it reopened to extended-stay travellers in an attempt to revive Thailand\u2019s battered economy, foreign arrivals have failed to meet even rock-bottom expectations. Just 346 overseas visitors have entered\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3118001\/coronavirus-thailand-offered-luxury-quarantine-tourists\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites &amp; Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences that can have their own pool and courtyard.Yet more than three months a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9107\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}