Cambodia officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With a total landmass of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 sq mi), it is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.
The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh, the political, economical, and cultural center of Cambodia.
The kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with Norodom Sihamoni an elected monarch chosen by the Royal Throne Council as head of state. The head of government is Hun Sen who is currently the longest serving leader in South East Asia and has ruled Cambodia for over 25 years.
The tourism industry is the country's second-greatest source of hard currency after the textile industry. Between January and December 2007, visitor arrivals were 2.0 million, an increase of 18.5% over the same period in 2006. Most visitors (51%) arrived through Siem Reap with the remainder (49%) through Phnom Penh and other destinations. Other tourist destinations include Sihanoukville in the south east which has several popular beach resorts and the area around Kampot and Kep including the Bokor Hill Station. Tourism has increased steadily each year in the relatively stable period since the 1993 UNTAC elections; in 1993 there were 118,183 international tourists, and in 2009 there were 2,161,577 international tourists.
With a population of over 14.8 million, Cambodia is the 69th most populous country in the world. The official religion is Theravada Buddhism which is practiced by around 92% of the Cambodian population. The country minority groups include Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and 30 various hill tribes.
Most of the tourists were Japanese, Chinese, Americans, South Koreans and French people, said the report, adding that the industry earned some 1400 million U.S. dollars in 2007, accounting for almost ten percent of the kingdom's gross national products. Chinese-language newspaper Jianhua Daily quoted industry official as saying that Cambodia will have three million foreign tourist arrival in 2010 and five million in 2015. Tourism has been one of Cambodia's triple pillar industries. The Angkor Wat historical park in Siem Reap province, the beaches in Sihanoukville and the capital city Phnom Penh are the main attractions for foreign tourists.
From 1993 till now, Cambodia has attracted 1.4 million of Japanese Tourist which is one percent of Japanese total population; hence, this figure is still small. However Cambodia via the Ministry of Tourism and related development agency and relevant stakeholders are putting much effort to overcome such a big challenge.
Japanese Travelers travel around 17 Million over the world while 2.8 million visited ASEAN region in 2010. Cambodia can attract a small proportion of these other countries. Angkor Wat has been a popular destination serving Japanese tourist in Cambodia. Japanese tourists have a large contribution of spending in tourism sector. Attracting Japanese tourist, The Ministry of Tourism has been working hard to diversify products. Therefore, not only cultural tourism we try to promote coastal tourism and ecotourism. As Cambodia Bay was integrated to the world most beautiful beach which represents the world class beach since 21st -23rd Jan in French, we highly recommended for coastal tourism beside cultural tourism which is very famous for heritage site.
In addition to facilities and services we have to serves Japanese Tourist, Cambodia try to develop hotel, eco-lodges, golf courses, airport, harbor, convention centre, professional tourism and training schools in emerging destinations in Cambodia. For sure that connectivity and transportation are key player for tourism flow but the two countries will have direct flight at the end of this year by ANA, according to H.E. Hor Monirath- Ambassador of Kingdom of Cambodia to Japan; this would help accelerate Japanese tourist to Cambodia while this upcoming connecting flight will provide low -cost carrier services.
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