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The Ministry of Tourism has unveiled plans to co-organise three major events with other local agencies as well as a Chinese association, as part of broader efforts to bring in one million mainland visitors this year, representing a more than nine-fold increase from 2022.
Siem Reap province is expected to have welcomed more than 2.27 million travellers by end-2022, up 326 per cent year-on-year, with international visitors topping 0.23 million, according to Minister of Tourism Thong Khon on December 1.
A large influx of holidaymakers is expected in Siem Reap over this year’s Water Festival, as the local tourism department reports a tally of more than 1.6 million tourists to the historically-rich northwestern province in the first nine months of this year.
The Lao national airline’s resumption of commercial flights between Cambodia and Laos on November 1 has been met with optimism among tourism insiders, as an attractive option for extensive trips across Indochina that could deliver a tangible increase in tourism flows between the Kingdom and its landlocked northern neighbour.
Cambodia welcomed nearly 1.266 million international visitors in the first nine months of this year – up 861.21 per cent year-on-year but down 73.58 per cent over the same period in 2019 – of which 59.08 per cent were from Thailand and Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Tourism.