CAMBODIA -- Numbers of tourist arrivals to Cambodia’s northwestern provinces of Siem Reap, Battambang and Preah Vihear has increased in the first six months of the year 2014, but not as expected, the Phnom Penh Post reported, citing figures from their provincial tourism departments.
The country’s cleanest city from the Tourism National Committee in March,
Battambang has received 209,000 local visitors as from June, up 9 per cent from the same period last year, while foreign visitors increased 4.5 per cent to 43,000.
Tourism attraction city Siem Reap received 1.2 million foreign visitors from January to June, a little over 10 per cent more than in the same period last year, with 1.3 million local visitors, up by 33 percent.
And it is expected to drop in the rainy season, which started this month, adding that the rain can make it difficult for tourists to spend time at Angkor Wat.
However, the province still expected to receive 2.5 million visitors this year, with numbers increasing from October, when the rain begins to clear.
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