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CouchfishCouchfish: Long stay good timeThe other day I gave a short talk to a travel organisation on lessons from Phuket’s Sandbox experiment. At one stage, I said short stay tourism will be the last segment to come back on stream. Today I’m going to expand on why this is an opportunity—not a cost, but it needs a change in governmental thinking. By short stay tourism, I mean international weekenders and that sort of thing. People travelling from say Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or Perth to Bali for a weekend. Up until the advent of low-cost airlines, this sort of travel...2021-08-1308 min