PM announces new airport in Siem Reap

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that Siem Reap is in need of a new airport to tackle the rising number of visitors to the area. The prime minister also called for the expansion of the country’s other two main airports to increase their handling capacity.

Mr Hun Sen said construction of a new airport and the overhaul of other existing airport facilities in the country is necessary to deal with the increased passenger flows and freight movements. The prime minister later added that this is in line with the government’s ambitious plans to attract more than seven million tourists by 2020. “Our target is to reach about seven million foreign tourists by 2020 and we firmly believe that we can reach it,” Mr Hun Sen said. “Our plan is to enhance and expand the capacity of airports and build new ones in order to enable the landing of larger long haul aircrafts.”

The new facility will double the capacity of the existing airport, which stands at five million visitors per year, according to the prime minister. Mr Hun Sen also commented on other airfields in the kingdom, stating that the airports in Phnom Penh and Preah Sihanoukville province need to be upgraded to handle an increasing number of passengers and freight movements.

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