Street vendors selling food in front of empty shophouses closed by the economic impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus, on Patong Beach in Phuket. - AFP
PHUKET (Reuters): As Thailand's government prepares to celebrate its reopening to foreign tourists this week, many businesses on the holiday island of Phuket aren't so enthusiastic about the return of visitors.
Phuket is a pilot programme for Thailand's reboot of a tourism industry gutted by the pandemic, allowing fully vaccinated visitors with negative coronavirus tests to fly directly to the southern island, bypassing 14-day quarantine requirements.
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