Visitor numbers grow over holiday fest

Tourism numbers swelled by nearly 16 percent during this year’s Pchum Ben festival, according to the Ministry of Tourism, with officials crediting efforts to improve tourism infrastructure and the quality of services for the higher volume of both domestic and foreign tourists.

In a posting on its Facebook page on Friday, the ministry said hotel and port records showed a total of just over 1 million tourists in the Kingdom during the three-day holiday, a 15.7 percent increase compared to last year’s festival. Domestic tourists made up the bulk of this figure totalling 1,010,000, while foreign tourists numbered about 40,000.

According to the ministry, Siem Reap played host to more visitors during the Pchum Ben festival than any other city in Cambodia. The northern city welcomed over 143,000 tourists during the three-day period, with its year-on-year domestic and foreign tourist numbers increasing by 5 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively.

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