Cambodia Tourism

Around 100 tourism operators, as well as provincial leaders and officials, gathered in Siem Reap recently to strategise attracting more international tourists, as the provincial airport’s mid-October opening approaches. Philip Set Kao, president of the Siem Reap Tourism Club Association, underscored the significant impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the tourism sector. This impact has translated into a notable reduction in the number of foreign tourists visiting the province, while neighboring countries have witnessed a surge in visitor numbers surpassing Cambodia’s figures. Kao stated that currently, tourism-related businesses like hotels are only operating at 60 to 70 per cent capacity....

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Newly appointed Minister of Tourism Sok Soken requested his officials to work with the relevant ministries and institutions as well as the private sector, development partners and communities to make Cambodia a safer and more attractive tourist destination. Civil servants must strive to contribute to the development of tourism, especially by strengthening their capacity, skills and talents, he said at a meeting with the General Department of Tourism Industry Management and the National Institute of Tourism on Sept 5. Soken said this was so they could contribute to the effective use of...

Tourism Minister Sok Soken attended the ITE-HCMC 2023 on September 7. TOURISM MINISTRY Tourism Minister Sok Soken has led an entourage of ministry officials and over 10 tourism industry players to promote Cambodia at the 17th International Exhibition (ITE-HCMC 2023) themed “Connection, Growth and Sustainability” in Vietnam. According to the ministry’s official Facebook page on September 7, 2023, Soken visited exhibition booths, including the Cambodian pavilion, and discussed with tourism business partners on products and tour packages to entice people to visit Cambodia. Cambodia Association of Travel Agents (CATA) president Chhay Sivlin told The Post on Sept 10 that Soken’s...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's emergence as a haven for online scam gangs that traffic people into forced labor has seriously damaged its reputation in China, hurting efforts to rebuild the Southeast Asian country's vital tourism industry following the pandemic, say sources in the sector.Prior to the pandemic, China was Cambodia's largest source of international arrivals, something its government wants to see again, particularly with expensive new airports coming online in Siem Reap this year and Phnom Penh in 2025. The Ministry of Tourism has launched China Ready, a certification program for hotels to meet "Chinese standards," and hopes to attract up...

Dark/Light Mode (17/08/23)  IndiGo has confirmed that it will launch flights between Delhi and Almaty, Kazakhstan next month. Scheduled for take off on 23 September 2023, flight 6E 1801 is timed to leave Delhi every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 20:50, arriving in Almaty (ALA) at 01:05 the following day. The return leg, flight 6E 1802, is slated to leave Almaty every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 02:05, arriving back in Delhi at 05:10. Almaty will be IndiGo’s 32nd international destination and the 111th overall station within the extensive 6E network. Outstanding natural beauty surrounds Almaty, Kazakhstan. Picture by Steven...

One of the treehouses in Okinawa, Japan. TREEFUL TREEHOUSE SUSTAINABLE RESORT Japanese company TreeFul has announced plans to develop world-class luxury five-star hotel tree houses on Kulen Mountain in Siem Reap province. It expects that the project will become a tourism product that will attract even more tourists to the Kingdom. The investment follows last year’s triumph, when TreeFul earned a coveted Guinness World Record for its luxury hotel tree houses in Okinawa. TreeFul representative Katsuhito Nabeshima said that after breaking the record, Satoru Kikugawa, a world-renowned engineer and Founder of TreeFul, visited Cambodia, and was struck by its beauty....

Tourists visit the Angkor Wat in the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Dec. 17, 2022. (Photo by Van Pov/Xinhua)Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport in Cambodia will organize and operate a number of non-commercial and non-profitable test flights in October.PHNOM PENH, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport in northwest Cambodia's Siem Reap province will commence operations in October, said a statement from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation on Thursday.The airport "is scheduled to open for operations from Oct. 16, 2023 onwards", the statement said.It added that the airport has received the official...

Phnom Penh and Cambodia’s 24 provinces tallied a combined 296,005 domestic tourist trips over the second full week of this month (July 10-16), of which 36,564 or 12.35 per cent were made by foreigners, the Ministry of Tourism said on the 19th. This corresponds to a 3.43 per cent dip from the 306,516 domestic trips reported for March 13-19 – an average week four months earlier – and a far greater 29.55 per cent slump from the 51,898 attributed to foreign travellers. However, as analysts have said, the domestic market remains vital to keeping Cambodia’s tourism industry healthy as the...

Trainees receive cooking skills training from the HoKa Training Programme in Siem Reap province in May. SWISSCONTACT CAMBODIA In a move set to revitalise Cambodia’s tourism sector, the Ministry of Tourism is poised to collaborate with the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) to facilitate a two-day training programme. Slated for August 10 and 11, this free initiative aims to bolster the skills of those serving the tourism industry, in what experts predict will be a significant boost to the sector. The prospect of this training came to light when the ministry announced its plans on July 26 in Siem Reap...