Vietnam has become the most favourite destination in Southeast Asia among Cambodian travellers since the beginning of 2022, Cambodian-based electronic news outlet Thmeythmey reported on September 10.
A leader of Phnom Penh capital city of Cambodia asked Ba Ria – Vung Tau to open a tourism bus route linking the two sides while meeting with visiting officials of the southern province of Vietnam on October 21.
Cambodia expects to welcome some 5 million tourists by this end of this year, as the number of visitors to the country has seen a sharp increase by approximately 2 million people.
Discovering the white sand beaches of Sihanoukville, the mysterious Bokor Plateau and Apsara Dance performance are just some of what included in new tours jointly operated by Vietravel and Angkor Air.
Cambodia’s Angkor Air will launch a direct route connecting Ho Chi Minh City to Preah Sihanoukville from June 17, according to the State Secretariat on Civil Aviation of Cambodia.
A conference was held in Binh Thuan province on Sept. 12 to seek to tighten tourism connectivity between Vietnam’s regions and northern Lao and northeastern Cambodian provinces.
An international exhibition to boost tourism connectivity in the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia development triangle area kicked off in Phan Thiet city of Vietnam’s central Binh Thuan province on September 11.
Vietnam signed bilateral agreements on tourism cooperation with Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar on September 9 as part of the 2015 Ho Chi Minh City international tourism fair.
Tourism officials from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam have agreed to build a sea tourism package programme connecting tourism sites in the southern ends of the three countries.