By Agencies
Air China has started to operate direct flights between China's Beijing
and Cambodia's Siem Reap province, aiming at further promoting tourism
and economic ties.
Its first flight landed at the Siem Reap International Airport at Sunday night with 115 passengers onboard.
Liu
Jia, chief executive officer of Air China to Cambodia, said the Air
China used a Boeing 737-800 jet to operate the new route on Wednesdays
and Sundays, and starting from January, the airline will add flights on
Mondays and Fridays.
"It is a new chapter of cooperation between
Cambodia and China on air transport service," he told reporters at the
airport upon the plane's arrival. "Through the flight, it will bring
closer contact between Beijing and Cambodia."
Ang
Kim Eang, president of the Cambodia Association of Travel Agents, which
represents 220 tour and travel operators, welcomed Air China's
operations to Siem Reap province, saying that it would further promote tourism and economy.
"It
will facilitate the peoples of the countries to travel to and fro," he
told Xinhua on Monday. "I believe that more Chinese tourists and
business people will come to Cambodia through Air China."
Cambodia
greeted 339,890 Chinese tourists in the first nine months of this year,
up 45 percent year-on-year, making China the second largest source of
tourists to Cambodia.
Northwestern Siem Reap province is renowned for the Angkor Wat Temple, a World Heritage Site.
1 comment:
very happy to hear more tourists to SR, I 'm proud
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