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Tourism sector worth $3.6 billion in 2017
Cambodia’s tourism sector earned $3.63 billion in revenue last year, an increase of 13.3 percent, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Tourism. Last year, international travellers visiting the kingdom spent 5.6 million, 11.8 percent more than in 2016, according to Kong Sophearak, ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108419/tourism-sector-worth-3-6-billion-2017/
Tourism unaffected by blasts
There has been no impact on tourists traveling by air between Cambodia and Thailand following the multiple fatal bombings in the southern part of Thailand last week, according to government and industry officials. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28561/tourism-unaffected-by-blasts/
More Cambodians traveling abroad as tourists
The number of Cambodians traveling overseas as tourists increased to nearly 700,000 in the first half of the year, up 26 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Tourism. Experts in the industry welcomed this trend and pointed out ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28454/more-cambodians-traveling-abroad-as-tourists/
Mekong tourism fest opens
The Mekong Tourism Festival, with the Mekong Food Tourism Summit as one of the highlights, starts today in the Kingdom’s tourist haven of Sihanoukville. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26835/mekong-tourism-fest-opens/
Direct flights from Japan to start
Direct flights between Cambodia and Japan will start soon after representatives of both countries exchanged Air Service Agreement notes yesterday. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25466/direct-flights-from-japan-to-start/
Instability delays CAA launching new routes
Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) will delay the launch of its planned direct flights to Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore due to unrest in neighbouring countries, the airline said yesterday. Originally slated to open the new routes before the end of the year, tensions in Thailand and Vietnam ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/instability-delays-caa-launching-new-routes
Arrivals of tourists up 20 per cent
Arrivals at the Kingdom’s two main international airports rose more than 20 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2013, according to data from Cambodia Airports. Officials said the rise reflects the normalisation of the world economy and the country’s political stability. According ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042965288/Business/arrivals-of-tourists-up-20-per-cent.html
Myanmar Airways flights to Cambodia to take off again
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) will resume its regular flights between Yangon and Cambodia’s two main international airports in early December after they were suspended for about three months. MAI started a twice-weekly schedule to Siem Reap in late February, but suspended the route over the last ...
Tourism figures continue to climb
Foreign tourist arrivals in the Kingdom increased by more than 15 per cent between January and October compared to the same period in 2010, Ministry of Tourism data showed. Officials attributed the arrival of 2.3 million foriegn visitors during the first 10 months of the year ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120653165/Business/tourism-figures-continue-to-climb.html
International Tourists Up 13.4 Percent
The number of visitors arriving in Cambodia in the first six months of this year has increased 13.4 percent to 1,385,029, compared to the same period in 2010, Kong Sophearak, director of the statistics department at the Ministry of Tourism, said yesterday. The largest influx ...