Chinese visitors to Cambodia up 37 percent in four months
Some 887,039 Chinese tourists came to Cambodia in the first four months of 2019, up 37 percent from the same period last year, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a report announced on June 6 by the Cambodian tourist ministry.
Chinese tourists at a famous tourism site in Cambodia (Source: dulich.tuoitre.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Some887,039 Chinese tourists came to Cambodia in the first four months of 2019, up37 percent from the same period last year, Xinhua news agency reported, citing areport announced on June 6 by the Cambodian tourist ministry.
China is still the largestsource of foreign tourists to Cambodia, accounting for 36.7 percent of thetotal foreign arrivals to the kingdom during the January-April period thisyear, the data said.
Cambodia welcomed a total of2.41 million foreigners in the reviewed period, up 11 percent on a yearly basis,it said.
Xinhua reported that Cambodian TourismMinister Thong Khon said at a Cambodia-China culture and tourism event in PhnomPenh on June 5 that China is a huge market for Cambodia's tourism industry.
"We hope to attract about2.6 million Chinese tourists in 2019, 3 million in 2020, 5 million in 2025 andup to 8 million in 2030," he was quoted as saying by the Chinese newsagency.
Last year, the country received6.2 million foreign tourists including 2 million Chinese, earning gross revenueof 4.35 billion U.S. dollars, Thong Khon said, adding that tourism contributed12.7 percent to the country's GDP (gross domestic product) last year.-VNA
Up to 683,436 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia in the first quarter of 2019, up 35.1 percent over the same period last year, according to a report of Cambodia's Tourism Ministry.
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Chinese tourists at a famous tourism site in Cambodia (Source: dulich.tuoitre.vn) 
