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Tourism recovery rate at 26.3% in Cambodia
Though tourism across Southeast Asia is in the process of regaining its pre-Covid health, with a 26.3 percent recovery rate against pre-pandemic levels Cambodia is placed third among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states.
According to the Tourism Advisory Board of Vietnam, while Singapore tops the table with a 30.9 percent recovery rate, Malaysia is second at a 27.5 percent rate of recovery. After Cambodia is Indonesia in fourth place with a 22.9 percent recovery rate. The Philippines is fifth with a 22.1 percent and Thailand at the sixth spot with a 22 percent recovery rate.
The recovery rate as against pre-pandemic levels in Vietnam is only 18.1 percent, far behind the neighbours like Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia says the Tourism Advisory Board. It has also suggested several measures like easing Visa norms to accelerate the tourism sector’s recovery in the country.
Given the rising arrival of international tourists, Cambodia hopes to welcome two million plus arrivals by this year’s end and by 2026 or 2027 achieve the pre-Covid level of tourist arrivals.
“In 2022, Cambodia is expected to receive about 2.2 million foreign tourists,” said a senior Tourism Ministry official. Before Covid struck in 2019, Cambodia had received over 7 million global tourists. Continuing with the trend of increasing footfalls during January-October 2022, the number of international arrivals increased by 991.1 percent compared with 10 months of the previous year, according to the Tourism Statistics Report for October 2022, released on November 30 and shared with Khmer Times by the Ministry of Tourism.
“The Thai tourism market ranks first with 590,000 tourists, accounting for 37.5 percent of the foreign arrivals, followed by Vietnam, China, the United States, Laos, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, France, and the United Kingdom,” said the Ministry of Tourism spokesman Top Sopheak.
The Asia-Pacific region was the main source of visitors for the Kingdom, according to the Tourism Statistics Report.
To attract more and more foreign tourists, particularly from beyond the ASEAN neighbourhood, the Kingdom is making attempts to have direct air links with the destinations from where a large number of tourists originate, including India which sends out a large number of tourists across the world.
Source: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501204801/tourism-recovery-rate-at-26-3-in-cambodia/