Sep
21
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Cambodian PM targets 7 million tourists by 2020
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Prime Minister Hun Sen says Cambodia can earn $5 billion a year from tourists by more than doubling foreign visitors to 7 million by 2020.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia —
Prime Minister Hun Sen says Cambodia can earn $5 billion a year from tourists by more than doubling foreign visitors to 7 million by 2020.
Hun Sen told a tourism seminar Thursday that Cambodia would need to improve the quality of services and infrastructure for tourists and strengthen laws safeguarding them to achieve the goal.
He also said police must crack down on the use of guns in public places, especially those frequented by foreigners.
Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Cambodia earned nearly $2 billion from 2.88 million foreign tourists last year, and expects 3.2 million foreign visitors this year.
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Sep
21
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New International Airport To Be Built in Siem Reap
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Cambodia is going to build a new international airport in Sotr Nikum district, some 45 kilometers from Siem Reap provincial town with a US$1-billion joint investment between Camco Airport Co., Ltd. and Lees A & A Co., Ltds from South Korea.
The construction will begin at the end of this year or in early 2013 and it is expected to complete by 2018 or 2019, H.E. Tek Reth Samrech, Secretary of State at the Office of the Council of Ministers told a local media recently.
Once finished, the new international airport will be able to welcome all kinds of large airplanes, he said.
According to the statistics from the Ministry of Tourism, in the first seven months of 2012, the Siem Reap International Airport received totally 573,941 passengers, an increase by 24 percent if compared to the same period in the previous year.
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Sep
21
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Bad weather affects border trade, seafood prices
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CHANTHABURI, Sept 19 - Thailand’s border trade at Chanthaburi has dropped by half due to the heavy rain in many eastern provinces, while erratic changes of weather in the southern provinces has caused the increased price of seafood.
Thai-Cambodian Business and Tourism Association vice chairman Sombat Juengtrakul said that flooding and rain in the eastern provinces have caused the border trade between Thailand and Cambodia at Chantaburi to drop by 50 per cent.
Normally Cambodian traders order Thai products on average at Bt30 million per day but orders have fallen to Bt15 million--about Bt500 million per month—because cross border transportation was inconvenient, he said.
Moreover, he said, shopping for Thai products at the border markets also droped by half due to the weather.
But the number of Cambodian workers crossing border to work in Thailand remained the same at around 1,000 persons daily.
Meanwhile, fluctuations of the weather has caused the price of fresh seafood at Maharaj market in Krabi to rise. Rough seas have barred fishing trawlers from going to sea and fewer fish are being caught.
The price of mackerel has risen from Bt80 per kilogramme to Bt90 per/kg, banana shrimp from Bt250/kg to Bt300-350/kg.
Maharaj market fresh seafood chairperfson Hava Changrua said the prices of seafood now are not stable because rough seas have reduced the quantity of seafood caught by the fishermen.
However, she believed that when the sea was calm, the seafood prices would return to normal.
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Festival honours northeastern ethnic groups
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21/09/2012 10:43:55
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Binh Phuoc needs tourism investment
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21/09/2012 10:22:38
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Festival honours northeastern ethnic groups
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21/09/2012 10:12:45
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HCMC-Mumbai air service in the offing
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21/09/2012 10:02:19
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Vietnam looks to one million Japanese tourists in 2015
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21/09/2012 09:50:07
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Cruise tourism in Southeast Asia begins to boom
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21/09/2012 09:49:07
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Vietnam attends IFTN Top Resa in France
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21/09/2012 09:36:16
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UNESCO helps Ha Giang province manage and develop tourism
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21/09/2012 09:31:18
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Air Mekong starts Tet holiday ticket sales
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21/09/2012 09:28:46
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