Vietnamese top the list of visitors to Cambodia

      Vietnam had the largest number of visitors to Cambodia in the first 5 months of 2009 with a total of 122,000 arrivals, taking up 12.8 percent of the country’s total tourists, according to the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism’s report.
The number of tourists coming to Cambodia from other countries also increased, 69,000 from the US (up 1.4 percent), 50,000 from the UK (up 15.8 percent) and 47,000 from France (up 5.5 percent).
Tourists coming from Laos to Cambodia rose to 41,000, up 149 percent compared to the same period last year. The sharp increase was due to Cambodia’s simplifying customs procedures and improving road links between the two countries.
However, the number of tourists coming from China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Australia to Cambodia in recent years has not seen any significant increase.
By the end of May, Cambodia had attracted 950,000 visitors, down 2.3 percent against the same period last year.