Cambodia launches tourist app enabling payments with KHQR

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Monday launched the ‘Bakong Tourists App’ helping foreign tourists in Cambodia to make payments using the country’s universal KHQR code at over 3.3 million retail merchant outlets. ...

Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501544895/cambodia-launches-tourist-app-enabling-payments-with-khqr/

Swell in int’l tourist arrivals injects $1.7B into economy

Cambodia’s tourism industry is making a strong comeback with the sector contributing significantly to the country’s economic growth.   ...

Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501533204/swell-in-intl-tourist-arrivals-injects-1-7b-into-economy/

APSARA Authority to install automatic water management station at Angkor site in collaboration with the SIAVB, France

Dr. Hang Peou, Director General of APSARA National Authority, met on May 21 at the headquarters of the SIAVB, France, with Jean-Michel Bordes, Director General of SIAVB, Jacques Bellier, President of AGERA, and technical officers of various institutions of the project “Siem Reap Angkor Water ...

Keo Rachana
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501492965/apsara-authority-to-install-automatic-water-management-station-at-angkor-site-in-collaboration-with-the-siavb-france/

Cambodia and Thailand are highly committed to strengthening cooperation in the tourism sector

Cambodia and Thailand are highly committed to strengthening cooperation in the tourism sector in line with the motto that everyone is gradually beginning to remember the slogan of‘Two kingdoms, the same tourism destination’. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501436589/cambodia-and-thailand-are-highly-committed-to-strengthening-cooperation-in-the-tourism-sector/

Koh Rong int’l airport construction begins

State authorities have confirmed that the earthworks for the first phase of construction of the Koh Rong International Eco-Tourism Airport is now underway on the island. ...

James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501427850/koh-rong-intl-airport-construction-begins/

Sok Soken attends the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2024 in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

At the invitation of Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of Lao PDR, Suanesavanh Vignaket, Sok Soken, Cambodian Minister of Tourism, led a delegation to attend the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2024, the 27th ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting and related meetings from 23rd – 27th January ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428870/sok-soken-attends-the-asean-tourism-forum-2024-in-vientiane-lao-peoples-democratic-republic/

Ministry plans to create an eco-tourism corridor in Tboung Khmum

The Ministry of Environment plans to turn the former Banteay Chak Sdech Korn into a historical eco-tourism area in Tboung Khmum province after Environment Minister Eang Sophalleth explored the potential of attracting tourists to boost the province’s economy.​ ...

Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358684/ministry-plans-to-create-an-eco-tourism-corridor-in-tboung-khmum/

New smart airport aims to drive more tourists into Siem Reap

Cambodia Angkor Air and Trip.com Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build a smart airport in Siem Reap, the global travel service provider said in a news release. ...

Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-siem-reap-new-smart-airport

Ecotourism gives ethic community new hope

Ecotourism has turned a struggling community into one with higher incomes, an upgraded road and new school and health services. ...

Sok Haingkheang
https://cambodianess.com/article/ecotourism-gives-ethic-community-new-hope

New int’l airport nearly half complete as travel industry returns to life

Construction of a new airport that is slated to serve the capital has passed the 43 per cent completion mark, raising prospects for a proper recovery in the civil aviation and tourism sectors as international travellers return to the Kingdom in increasingly large numbers. ...

May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-intl-airport-nearly-half-complete-travel-industry-returns-life

Residents and traders at Phnom Sampov resort request compensation in exchange for demolition

About 20 families and traders living and selling around Phnom Sampov asked the relevant authorities to help resolve the compensation according to the market price in exchange for relocation as authorities claim that their move is to rehabilitate the site for tourism. ...

VOD staff
https://www.vodkhmer.news/2022/11/17/residents-and-traders-at-phnom-sampov-request-compensation-in-exchange-for-demolition/

Six Senses resort reopening

Preah Sihanouk province’s Six Senses Krabey Island resort is slated to reopen its doors to tourists on December 2 after ceasing operations during the Covid-19 slump in the tourism industry. ...

May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/six-senses-resort-reopening

1st Chinese-invested expressway in Cambodia sparks tourist influx to coastal province: PM

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Monday that some 200,000 vehicles had traveled on the kingdom’s first-ever expressway since it was open to the public for trial use for free on Oct 1. ...

Xinhua
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/17/WS634cfca3a310fd2b29e7cf2f.html

Southeast Asia visitors backing Cambodian tourism industry

Cambodia welcomed 217,038 visitors from Southeast Asia from January to May of 2022, signifying a 282 per cent jump year-on-year, the Ministry of Tourism said, while noting that nearly 50 per cent of the figure arrived from Vietnam. ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/southeast-asia-visitors-backing-cambodian-tourism-industry

Angkor crowned as best place to visit in Southeast Asia

Angkor in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province came first among the 29 Best Places to Visit in Southeast Asia, according to a survey of Touropia Travel Guides. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50964217/angkor-crowned-as-best-place-to-visit-in-southeast-asia/

Phnom Penh Authorities continued administrative measures against COVID-19 raises ire

Phnom Penh municipal administration’s decision  to extend its administrative measures for another 14 days, until  October 7, even as the prime minister had called for tourism to resume, especially from China, is seen to be counter productive though essential in combatting and preventing the spread ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50939980/phnom-penh-authorities-continued-administrative-measures-against-covid-19-raises-ire/

Angkor Landmark breaks ground by end-2021: CEO

Phase I of the Angkor Landmark development project about 15km northeast of Siem Reap town is scheduled to officially break ground at end-2021, according to the developer’s CEO Tous Saphoeun. ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/angkor-landmark-breaks-ground-end-2021-ceo

50,000 domestic tourists counted in first weekend of September

A total of 51,042 tourists were registered in the first weekend of September, according to Minister of Tourism Thong Khon. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50930413/50000-domestic-tourists-counted-in-first-weekend-of-september/

Only 1.31 million foreign tourists visited Cambodia in 2020

During COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Cambodia received only 1.31 million foreign tourists, showing a fall of 80 percent compared to 2019. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808696/only-1-31-million-foreign-tourists-visited-cambodia-in-2020/

Boost to tourism-related business

More than 30 percent of tourism-related businesses have resumed operations after closing or suspending work since March this year because of COVID-19, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Tourism. ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50760394/boost-to-tourism-related-business/

Angkor resort received 400,000 tourists in first eight months

Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province welcomed 393,293 foreign tourists in the first eight months of this year, earning $18,332,011. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50759735/angkor-resort-received-400000-tourists-in-first-eight-months/

Cambodia supports 170,000 workers in garment, tourism sectors

Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the government has transferred $40 per month to approximately 170,000 workers in the garment and tourism sectors, who suffered work suspension due to COVID-19. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50744788/cambodia-supports-170000-workers-in-garment-tourism-sectors/

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