Saturday, June 1, 2019
In the first five months of 2019, a state-run Angkor Enterprise stated that the number of foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archeological Park dropped by 7.3 percent.
During the period between January- May this year around 1.12 million foreigners visited the ancient park. This went down by 7.3 percent as compared to the same period last year.
In the first five months of the year, the site earned revenue of 50.3 million U.S. dollars from ticket sales which was down 8.5 per cent over the same period last year.
The biggest sources of foreign tourists to the park were China, the United States and South Korea.
The Angkor Archeological Park is inscribed on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziaton (UNESCO) in 1992 and is located in northwestern Cambodia’s Siem Reap province.
