Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism, Statistics and ICT Department reported, that international arrivals for the first quarter of this year grew 13.9% from 683,692 to 778,467 trips. Neighbouring Vietnam was the top supplier mainly through overland checkpoints. Out of 778,467 visits recorded, 735,132 were categorised under leisure travel and just 35,605 businesses and the balance 7,730 for other travel purposes. Asia accounted for 63.57% or 494,862 arrivals. ASEAN and East Asia were the largest subregion suppliers - 235,409 (+10.3%) and 252,063 (+20%) respectively. South Asia, western Asia and the Middle East were still new markets for Cambodia with only 1,217 (+12.9%), 379 and 3,023 (+0.5%) arrivals respectively. Europe produced 180,672 arrivals, mostly (72.73%) from West Europe and Scandinavia (131,399, +3.68%), while East Europe supplied 18.96% (34,260, +74.8%) and South Europe, 7.35% (13,283, +11.4%). Visitors from Oceania increased 6.3% to reach 32,236, while the Americas grew 8.2% to 66,116 and Africa, rising 25.8% to 1,558.
Vietnam was the top source market with 130,831 trips, a growth of 19.4% compared to the same quarter last year.
Read More in Cambodia Insight Website on Issue 7 Page 47.
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