New platform helps travellers book ASQ stays in Thailand

A new platform has been launched to help travellers book their alternative state quarantine (ASQ) stays in Thailand, uniting the country’s quarantine hotels on one platform.

Following its soft launch in December 2020 with 15 hotels, ASQ Stay presently has over 50 hotels on its site and has serviced over 200 travellers.

According to founder David Zilber, who comes from a travel start-up background, the idea was born when he was researching hotels to quarantine for himself on his way from France to Thailand.

“I looked up the process of getting into Thailand during Covid and the resources available to book a quarantine hotel. I felt the solutions existing in the market were not very elaborate. I had to call (the hotels) up one by one; there was no customer service and nobody to help in the process,” he explained.

After browsing Facebook groups and checking the…