Welcome to your prison vacation? In four days, Phuket is set to officially reopen under the much heralded "Phuket sandbox" -- a tourism management test case for reviving the tourism industry. Fortunately, the Phuket sandbox compromised and expanded the quarantine space from a small hotel room to the entire island. With such restrictions, it's hard not to see how a vacation to Phuket can be mistaken for a prison sentence in paradise. Yet the Phuket sandbox will be a warm-up for the Thai tourism industry to prepare.

Source: Bangkok Post June 26, 2021 22:30 UTC