The bird's eye view of Preah Vihear temple.PHNOM PENH, Dec.5 (Xinhua) -- The number of visitors to Preah Vihear temple, a World Heritage Site, had declined 28 percent year- on-year in the first eleven months this year, according to the statistics provided to Xinhua by the Preah Vihear provincial tourism department on Monday.
The department recorded a total of 49,740 tourists to the temple from January to November this year, dropped by 28 percent from 69,230 visitors in the same period last year.
The decline was in the number of domestic visitors only--some 47,160 Cambodians visited the temple during the period, 30 percent decrease from 67,370 in the same period last year, whilst the number of foreign tourists to the site was up 39 percent to 2,580 from 1,860.
The department recorded a total of 49,740 tourists to the temple from January to November this year, dropped by 28 percent from 69,230 visitors in the same period last year.
The decline was in the number of domestic visitors only--some 47,160 Cambodians visited the temple during the period, 30 percent decrease from 67,370 in the same period last year, whilst the number of foreign tourists to the site was up 39 percent to 2,580 from 1,860.
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