Cambodia attracted 498,250 Chinese visitors during the first 11 months of 2023, up 449 percent from only 90,648 in the same period last year, said a Ministry of Tourism’s report released on Monday.
The number accounted for 10.1 percent of a total of 4.91 million international tourist arrivals to the Southeast Asian country during the January-November period
this year, the report said.
China was the third biggest source of foreign tourists to the kingdom after Thailand and Vietnam, the report said, adding that some 1.65 million Thais and 920,093 Vietnamese traveled to Cambodia during the above-mentioned period, up 130 percent and 129 percent, respectively.
Ministry of Tourism’s Secretary of State and Spokesperson Top Sopheak said Cambodia is keen to see more Chinese holidaymakers, assuring that the kingdom is a safe tourist destination.
“We want more Chinese tourists as they have importantly contributed to our economic and tourism development as well as poverty reduction,” he told Xinhua. Source: Xinhua
