Chinese tourists to Cambodia continue to rise in Q1
China DailyChinese tourists post at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia on Dec 9, 2018. About 683,436 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia in the first quarter of 2019, up 35.1 percent over the same period last year, said a report released by Cambodia's Tourism Ministry on Friday. A total of 1.87 million international tourists traveled to Cambodia during the first three months of this year, up 9.7 percent over the same period last year, it said. Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon told Xinhua that the country is expected to attract three million Chinese tourists in 2020 and five million in 2025. Last year, the country received 6.2 million foreign tourists including 2 million Chinese, earning gross revenue of $4.35 billion dollars, the minister said, adding that tourism contributed 12.7 percent to the country's GDP.