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| April 20, 2012 | Tourist flow to Cambodia's Angkor Wat doubles | | Phnom Penh: The number of foreign tourists to Cambodia's Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites, increased by 45 percent to 639,800 in the first quarter of this year, statistics of the Siem Reap provincial tourism department
revealed on Friday. The top three countries visiting the temples are South Korea, Vietnam
and China. During the period from January to March this year, some
132,750 South Koreans, 75,088 Vietnamese, and 49,231 Chinese had visited the temples,
up 67 percent, 15 percent and 54 percent, respectively. "We see that the visitors from South
Korea and China are on the sharp rise," Chhoeuy Chhorn, administration
chief of Siem Reap provincial tourism department, said over telephone, adding
"this thanks to the broader promotion of the temples to the world in combination
with increased flights and more direct flight connection between Asian countries
and Siem Reap province." Siem Reap's Angkor archeological park is the country's
largest cultural tourism destination; it is located some 315 km northwest of Phnom
Penh , the capital of Cambodia . An entrance fee to visit the temples is 20 U.S.
dollars a day for a foreign visitor, 40 U.S. dollars for a three-day visit and
60 U.S. dollars for a weeklong visit. Last year, the temples attracted 1.6 million
foreign visitors, an increase of 23 percent. The tourism industry is one of the
main four pillars supporting the Cambodian economy. The others are garment industry,
agriculture and real estates.
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