Pandemic tourism: Thailand launches Phuket sandbox plan
July 2, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The first group of tourists from Abu Dhabi arrives at the Phuket International Airport in Phuket, Thailand, on July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) PHUKET, Thailand (AP) Thailand embarked on an ambitious but risky plan Thursday that it hopes will breathe new life into a tourism industry devastated by the pandemic, opening the popular resort island of Phuket to fully vaccinated foreigners from lower-risk countries. As the first flight arrived, airport fire trucks blasted their water canons to form an arch over the Etihad jet from Abu Dhabi as it taxied to its gate.
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