Cambodia to receive 4.5 million tourists by 2015
Cambodia expects to welcome 4.5 million tourists by 2015, increasing from 3.5 million in 2012, thanks to its cultural properties, Prime Minister Hun Sen said. “Undoubtedly, heritage and cultural tourism are playing a substantial part in this growth. Twenty years ago, when Angkor was inscribed on the World Heritage list, the number of international visitors were just 120,000. The figure then climbed to 3.5 million in 2012, with the expectation of 4.5 million by 2015,” he said at the opening of the 37th World Heritage Committee session, Sunday night. … Over the past two decades, cultural and eco-tourism have become a pillar of equitable growth and played an instrumental role in poverty reduction in Cambodia where the poverty had dropped from 100 percent in 1979 to 19 percent in 2011, according to Hun Sen. …
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