Cambodia’s Angkor greets 1.57 mln foreign visitors in 9 months

13 October 2013
Global Times
Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Industries / Non-DAC members / Siem Reap / Tourism
Angkor Archeological Park / Chinese aid / Japanese aid / Siem Reap Provincial Department of Tourism / South Korean aid / Thailand / World Heritage list

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites, attracted 1.57 million foreign tourists in the first nine of the year, up 6 percent compared with the same period in a year earlier, a tourism report showed Monday. South Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan and Thailand are the largest sources of tourist arrivals to the 12th century temples, said the report of the Siem Reap provincial tourism department. During the January-September period this year, the temples welcomed 259,630 South Koreans, up 3 percent year-on-year; 201,000 Chinese, up 60 percent; 121,700 Vietnamese, down 32 percent; 108, 540 Japanese, up 11 percent and 81,060 Thais, down 5 percent. … Last year, the temples attracted 2.06 million foreign visitors, up 28 percent year-on-year.

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