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Monday 30 April 2012

More tourists visit Cambodia

April 30, 2012 by   

BANGKOK, 30 April 2012: Cambodia’s tourist arrivals almost reached 1 million at the end of the first quarter and resulted in a substantial increase of around 30% over the same period last year.
Tourists from Thailand rebounded after the Yingluck administration established better diplomatic relations with Prime Minister Hun Sen. Visits leaped 64% during the first three months of this year moving the Thai market to seventh place, up from the eighth at the end of 2011.
The Ministry of Tourism reported the country welcomed 995,210 international tourists during the first three months, representing an impressive growth of 27.8%.
During January to March, 51.6% (513,756) of all international visitors arrived by air. Siem Reap took the much greater share, 32.8% (326,348), while Phnom Penh Airport received 18.8% (187,408).
Overland travel accounted for 44.8% (445,420) and a small amount of 3.6% (36,034) travelled by sea and river.
Siem Reap welcomed 639,874 tourists, or 64.3% of the total, improving 46.8%. Meanwhile, Phnom Penh and other destinations only tallied 355,336 tourists with a small improvement of 3.7% over the same period of 2011.
None of its key market showed declines. The top international travel supplier, was neighbouring Vietnam with 178,967 tourists, an increase of 36.8% followed by Korea supplying 151,233, up 40.7%.
Besides Thailand, countries in the top 10 list, included neighbouring Laos, which also recorded skyrocketed performance at 88% (49,348). Arrivals from Russia also continue to grow recording  a 49.6% (37,123) rise from January to March.

In term of regions, Asia and the Pacific recorded the strongest growth of 33.6% (704,195) followed by the Middle East, 24% (3,750); the Americas, 18.6% (78,402); Europe, 14.8% (207,460) and Africa, -9.9% (1,403).
In addition, trips by Cambodians reached 188,267, a 37.1% rise over the same period last year.

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