Over 40% of all the tourists coming into Cambodia are originated
from another ASEAN country, according to statistics from Cambodia
Ministry of Tourism.
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia received about 1.51 million visitors from its
ASEAN member countries last year, up 37 percent year-on-year, according
to the statistics of the tourism ministry released on Thursday.
The figure represented 42 percent of total foreign tourists to the country last year, the report said.
Among the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN), Vietnamese tourists to Cambodia topped the chart with its
763,100 citizens visited Cambodia last year, followed by Laos with
254,000 people came to the country.
Thailand came at third with
201,400 tourists, while Malaysia and the Philippines came at fourth and
fifth with 116,800 tourists and 97,500 visitors respectively, it said.
In
addition, last year, some 53,200 Singaporeans, 22,550 Indonesians,
4,750 Myanmar nationals, and 950 Brunei citizens had visited Cambodia.
Ang Kim Eang,
president of Cambodia’s Association of Travel Agents, said Thursday
that the growth of ASEAN visitors to Cambodia was thanks to connectivity
between Cambodia and those ASEAN member states by either land or air.
He
said visa exemptions among ASEAN member states are also a driving force
for ASEAN people to travel from country to country in the bloc. To
date, Cambodia has carried out visa exemptions with all ASEAN member
states, but Brunei and Myanmar.
"More importantly, Cambodia has a lot of attractive tourist destinations,"
he said, adding that those include the 12th century Angkor Wat Temple, a
world heritage site, and a pristine coastline stretching in the length
of 450 kilometers in four Southwestern provinces.The coastline was
officially recognized as one of the World's Most Beautiful Bays in 2011.
(Source: Xinhua)
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