Cambodia sees sharp increase in foreign tourists in January-April


This picture taken on April 8, 2022 shows tourists visiting the Angkor Wat temple complex, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in Siem Reap province. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia attracted a total of 241,485 international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 191 per cent from the same period last year, said the latest report released by the Ministry of Tourism on Thursday (June 2).

Some 131,864 or 54.6 per cent of the tourists arrived in the South-East Asian country by air during the January-April period, up 244 per cent year-on-year, the report said, adding that neighbouring Vietnam topped the chart of the international tourist arrivals to the kingdom, followed by Thailand and China.

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