Source: CCTV.com
01-05-2008
The Festive Season in China also heads toward the busiest travel time of the year. And Chinese international tourism is growing. Tourism in Cambodia is swiftly on the rise.
Visits by foreign tourists to Cambodia last year soared to over two million. That's a 20 percent increase over 2006. Cambodia Tourism officials say about 60 percent of the visitors went to see the Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province of Cambodia.
In Cambodia, they're expecting the number of foreign tourists to reach three million by 2010.
Tourism is growing world wide and becoming an important economic base. In Cambodia, tourism provides jobs for more than 270 trades and additional opportunities for many more local people.
Foreign tourists spend about 700 U.S. dollars each while visiting Cambodia, on average. That doesn't include air fare.
Tourism is the country's second pillar industry. In 2006, tourism revenue reached 1.05 billion U.S. dollars. The industry provided Cambodia's economy with 250,000 jobs.
The temples of Angkor were built by the Khmer people between 802 and 1220 AD. They represent one of mankind's most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From their base at Angkor, the Khmer kings ruled over a vast empire that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. More than 100 stone temples survive today, the sole remnants of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis. Other buildings, such as palaces, public buildings and houses, were built from wood. They have long since decayed and disappeared.
Some archaeologists view the temples of the Angkor complex as tombs of power-mad kings.
Others believe the kings designed and constructed the temples as a monument to their god and to impress their own subjects. Precisely aligned with the stars and adorned with stunningly beautiful religious art, the Angkor temples were creations aimed at guiding ancient peoples in their quest to realize the divine.
01-05-2008
The Festive Season in China also heads toward the busiest travel time of the year. And Chinese international tourism is growing. Tourism in Cambodia is swiftly on the rise.
Visits by foreign tourists to Cambodia last year soared to over two million. That's a 20 percent increase over 2006. Cambodia Tourism officials say about 60 percent of the visitors went to see the Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province of Cambodia.
In Cambodia, they're expecting the number of foreign tourists to reach three million by 2010.
Tourism is growing world wide and becoming an important economic base. In Cambodia, tourism provides jobs for more than 270 trades and additional opportunities for many more local people.
Foreign tourists spend about 700 U.S. dollars each while visiting Cambodia, on average. That doesn't include air fare.
Tourism is the country's second pillar industry. In 2006, tourism revenue reached 1.05 billion U.S. dollars. The industry provided Cambodia's economy with 250,000 jobs.
The temples of Angkor were built by the Khmer people between 802 and 1220 AD. They represent one of mankind's most astonishing and enduring architectural achievements. From their base at Angkor, the Khmer kings ruled over a vast empire that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. More than 100 stone temples survive today, the sole remnants of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis. Other buildings, such as palaces, public buildings and houses, were built from wood. They have long since decayed and disappeared.
Some archaeologists view the temples of the Angkor complex as tombs of power-mad kings.
Others believe the kings designed and constructed the temples as a monument to their god and to impress their own subjects. Precisely aligned with the stars and adorned with stunningly beautiful religious art, the Angkor temples were creations aimed at guiding ancient peoples in their quest to realize the divine.
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