The Prime Minister has called for the reopening of travel for fully vaccinated tourists with a seven-day quarantine.

PM Hun Sen today encouraged the Tourism Ministry to explore reopening tourism to vaccinated overseas tourists with a seven-day quarantine period who wish to visit Cambodia.

The PM stated that tourism should be reopened in two stages.

The first step is to promote local tourism.

The second phase is to allow overseas tourists who have been vaccinated with all of the appropriate doses – based on the vaccination they received – to enter Cambodia with only a seven-day quarantine.

Tourists who have been properly vaccinated would not be restricted to staying in the hotel during the quarantine, but might gradually travel within the area where they arrived according to the ministry's or authorities' plans.

The Prime Minister went on to describe the notion, saying:

‘Those who have been vaccinated can visit Cambodia for seven days upon arrival, but not in a room. They can stroll around the city, for example in Siem Reap inside the provincial framework, and visit the temples.'

Mr Hun Sen advised the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Tourism to look into the matter.