AKP Phnom Penh, December 30, 2011 –Cambodian Minister of Tourism H.E. Thong Khon (pictured) wishes to attract one million Chinese tourists to visit Cambodia by 2020.
According to the prediction of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) the number of Chinese tourists visiting the world wide, will reach 100 million by 2020.
In his meeting recently with businessmen at Preah Sihanouk province, H.E. Thong Khon appealed to the tourism businessmen to attract more Chinese tourists to the country.
According to the Tourism Ministry’s statistics, in the first 11 months of 2011, Cambodia received some 190,000 Chinese tourists.
BY LIM Nary
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I keep hearing that more and more foreign visitors visit Cambodia to see the ancient temples, my question is where is the money? the revenue from those tourists should be used to build school, hospitals, roads, sewage, water treatment plants....help the poor....
Instand it went to the pocket of the CPP like Thong Khon (minister of tourism). It is a very sad day for all Khmers.
Most of the revenue money go to Sok Kong, Sok An and Hun Sen and foreign tourist operators and hotel owners. The ordinary Cambodians did not benefits much at all, even trying to sell souvenirs to tourists have been banned.
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