Vietnamese elite runners have confirmed they will take part in the final stage of the Viettel Marathon Series 2024, the first running event crossing the Indochina region, on December 22 in Cambodia.
An event themed "Smile of Cambodia" was officially launched at the iconic Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia's northwestern province of Siem Reap on August 15, aiming to introduce arts and cultural heritage to tourists.
About 3,000 domestic and international runners took part in the 9th Angkor Empire Marathon held at the Angkor Archaeological Park in Cambodia’s northwest on August 4.
Two rabbits dressed in outfits from Cambodia’s traditional martial art of Bokator are the mascots at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32), which takes place in the country from May 5-17.
Cambodia earned 18.45 million USD in revenue from the sale of tickets at Angkor Archaeological Park in the first nine months of 2020, a 75 percent decrease year-on-year due to impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Angkor Enterprise.
The number of international flights to and from Cambodia’s three airports in March is forecast to fall by around 40 percent compared to that in December last year since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Cambodia has banned tourists from eating and drinking on the lawns around the Angkor Wat temple to protect the temple's cultural value and surrounding environment, reported Xinhua on August 14.
Cambodia welcomed approximately 1 million domestic and international visitors during the 2019 Lunar New Year holiday, up 8 percent against the same period last year.
The number of Vietnamese tourists, the second-most common visitors to Cambodia, fell in the first nine months of this year by 14.5 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism.
Cambodia welcomed an estimated 4.8 million tourists in 2015, up 8 percent from the previous year, the Khmer Daily quoted Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon as saying.
