Phuket reopening offers model for Asia as travel bubbles burst


Tourism-reliant Thailand aims to allow quarantine-free travel to Phuket from July 1 for the first time in more than a year. - Bloomberg

BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thailand’s plan to reopen the tourist haven of Phuket could become a model for other vacation hotspots in Asia to prise open their borders and bring in visitors as strategies such as travel bubbles falter, according to the founder of Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd.

Tourism-reliant Thailand aims to allow quarantine-free travel to its prime destination from July 1 for the first time in more than a year, provided visitors are inoculated against Covid-19 and aren’t coming from high-risk countries.

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