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Thai tourists are visiting Cambodia in increasing numbers - with
visitors almost doubling in the first half of 2012 compared to the same
period last year.
Almost 92,000 Thais visited the neighbouring country from January to
June, an increase from 48,000, or a 90% jump from the same period last
year, according to a Cambodian Tourism Ministry report.
An even greater number of Laotians visited Cambodia in the same
period, with 107,000 crossing the border, an 87% rise on the first half
of 2011.
Cambodia is on course to reach its projection of 3.4 million foreign
tourists set by the ministry this year. The final quarter is normally
high season for the tourism industry in Southeast Asia.
The ministry recorded 2.85 million foreigners, almost half of them
from other Southeast Asian countries, visiting Cambodia in the first 10
months, 540,000 more than last year or nearly a 24% increase, the Phnom
Penh Post reports, citing the ministry's figures.
Tourists from other members of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations accounted for 1.2 million visitors in the period, an increase of
36%.
Tourists from the European Union accounted for 467,452, up 11%. This
increase was due to more flights linking Cambodia with Europe but the
rate of increase slowed as Cambodia felt the impact of the eurozone debt
crisis on the tourism sector, which affected the spending of Europeans,
the newspaper quoted Sinan Thourn, chairman of the Pacific Asia Travel
Association, as saying.
Last year 3.1 million foreign visitors visited Cambodia, about 105,00 of them from Thailand.
Source: bangkokpost.com
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