A total of 481,582 international visitors flew into Cambodia in the first quarter of 2023, a 5.5-fold year-on-year increase from 86,976, but still 37.07 per cent of the 1,299,122 registered during the equivalent three-month period in 2019, according to the Ministry of Tourism.
A total of 481,582 international visitors flew into Cambodia in the first quarter of 2023, a 5.5-fold year-on-year increase from 86,976, but still 37.07 per cent of the 1,299,122 registered during the equivalent three-month period in 2019, according to the Ministry of Tourism.
Months on after Beijing lifted Covid-19 travel restrictions and rolled out a pilot international group-tour scheme encompassing Cambodia and 19 other countries, Chinese tourist arrivals to the Kingdom, and especially Siem Reap, have fallen short of the expectations of industry insiders based in the culturally-rich northwestern province.
Some 30 per cent of the 0.8-1.0 million projected mainland Chinese travellers to Cambodia this year are expected to visit Siem Reap province, as the Kingdom hosts the 32nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and 12th ASEAN Para Games, the annual Angkor Sangkran
Cambodia welcomed nearly 2.277 million international visitors in 2022, representing a 65.56 per cent drop from record-breaking 2019 but an increase by a factor of 11.57 over 2021, which by many accounts was the worst year for the local tourism sector in recent memory due to the Covid-19 downturn.