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Tourism Becomes Engine of Nation Growth

August 7, 2006 ⋅ post a comment

We learn from figure to understand the fact. That said, the number of visitors to Cambodia continue to increase. As the Royal Cambodian Government has strong diplomatic relation with big dragons of Asia, South Korea and Japan, the tourist from the two nations made the top ten in the first six months of this year. Cambodia relies heavily on tourism for its economic growth.

The number of foreign visitors to Cambodia has increased in the first six months of 2006. From January to June, 813,392 tourists and those on business visited Cambodia, 19% more than the same period of 2005, according to the Ministry of Tourism. South Korean tourists are still at the top of the list numbering 148,000, followed by Japan at 70,000 and United States with 60,000, while the numbers of tourists from the UK and France decreased.

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