/ Posted on 4 May, 2021 10:46
All qualified employees across five Anantara five resorts on the Thai islands of Koh Samui and Phuket have been inoculated against Covid-19 in a vaccination drive led by Anantara Hotels and Resorts, local government and health authorities.
The drive is part of the hotel brand’s commitment to safeguarding visiting guests against infections. Each of the five resorts in Southern Thailand – Anantara Bophut Koh Samui Resort, Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort, Anantara Layan Phuket Resort, Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas and Anantara Phuket Suites & Villas – also has a Guest Guardian on site to oversee health and safety standards by ensuring that a series of rigid brand health and safety guidelines are met and surpassed at all times.
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Thailand has launched matchmaking trips with Tinder (see: ‘the next Contiki’), luxury isolation packages and even quarantine resort stays which let you go golfing for two weeks, all in a bid to get tourists to return after ~2020~.
Few have taken the Kingdom up on its offer. Though digital nomads are fleeing to (and establishing communities in) such far-flung places as Madeira, Barbados, Berlin, Bali and Lisbon, and though many Europeans are fleeing to places like Dubai to get their winter fix of sun, Thailand hasn’t seen the same interest as various other destinations.
Per
Bloomberg, “Just 346 overseas visitors have entered the country on average each month on special visas since October, according to the Thailand Longstay Company, which helps facilitate the program. That’s well below the government’s target of about 1,200 and a tiny fraction of the more than 3 million who came before the pandemic.”
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It is 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 100 like it reopened to extended-stay travelers in an attempt to revive Thailand’s battered economy, foreign arrivals have failed to meet even rock-bottom expectations. Just 346 overseas visitors have entered the country on average each month on special visas since October last year, according to Thailand Longstay Co, which helps facilitate the program.
It’s hard to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites and Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences that have their own pool and courtyard.