via CAAI News Media
2010-02-08
Xinhua
Web Editor: Hu Weiwei
Cambodia's tourism sector has been on steady growth over the past five-year period, according to a report released on Monday by the government.
The report titled "tourism highlights" showed that there was one million foreign tourists visited Cambodia in 2004, and the number has been increased on yearly basis.
In 2009, the number of foreign tourist arrivals was 2.161 million an increase of 1.7 percent compared to 2008 with 2.125 million despite the global economic crisis.
According to the report, there were 1.421 million in 2005, and 1.7 million in 2006 and 2.015 million in 2007.
Among the foreign arrivals, Vietnamese was recorded as the largest number in 2009 with 319,202, followed by South Korean with 197,725 and the American with 148.482.
In 2008, South Koreans were the largest of foreign tourist arrivals to Cambodia with 266,525, followed by Vietnamese at 209, 516 and the third was from Japan at 163,806.
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has pinpointed for several times that tourism is a locomotive for economic growth in his country and vowed to accelerate it to one of the world's most wanted tourism sites.
Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple, built between 9th to 12th century -- is one of the world's famous tourist sites. Angkor Wat Temple was registered as the world heritage site.
Cambodia is also proud to claim the country is rich in eco- tourism in addition to its already outstanding cultural tourism.
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