PHNOM PENH, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The number of Chinese tourists to Cambodia increased by 45.2 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2024, said a Cambodian Ministry of Tourism's report released on Tuesday.

A total of 389,360 Chinese travelers visited the Southeast Asian country during the January-June period this year, up 45.2 percent from 268,130 over the same period last year, the report said.

The Chinese tourists accounted for 12.3 percent of the total 3.16 million international tourist arrivals to Cambodia during the first half of this year, the report said, adding that China was the third largest source of international tourists to the kingdom after Thailand and Vietnam.

Cambodian Ministry of Tourism's Secretary of State and Spokesperson Top Sopheak is confident that the Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport and the Cambodia-China People-to-People Exchange Year 2024 would help attract more Chinese travelers to Cambodia.

"We are eager to see more Chinese tourists as their presence has contributed to our economic growth and tourism development," he has told Xinhua.

Tourism is one of the four pillars supporting Cambodia's economy, in addition to garment, footwear, and travel goods export, agriculture, and construction and real estate industry.

The kingdom has four UNESCO-listed world heritage sites, namely the Angkor Archaeological Park in the northwestern Siem Reap province, the Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk in the central Kampong Thom province, and the Temple of Preah Vihear and the Koh Ker archaeological site in the northwestern Preah Vihear province.

Besides, it has a pristine coastline stretching in the length of about 450 km in the four southwestern provinces of Sihanoukville, Kampot, Kep and Koh Kong. Enditem

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