Tourism in Cambodia

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 west 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.
Cambodia is predicted to greet 4 million foreign visitors this year 2013, an expected 12 percent rise year-on-year, Thong Khon Said. "Last year in 2012, wereceived 3.58 million foreign tourists, up 24 percent year-on-year, and generated total revenue of about 2.2 billion U.S dollars," he told reporters onthe sidelines of a tourism conference. "This year, we believe that the country will attract up to 4 million foreign visitors"

Most of the tourists were Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Americans, South Koreans and French people, said the report, adding that the industry earned some 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, accounting for almost ten percent of the kingdom's gross national products. Chinese-language newspaper Jianhua Daily quoted industry officials as saying that Cambodia will have three million foreign tourist arrivals 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 Sihanouk ville and the capital city Phnom Penh are the main attractions for foreign tourists.

Cambodia's tourist souvenir industry employs a lot of people around the main places of interest. Obviously, the quantity of souvenirs that are produced is not sufficient to face the increasing number of tourists and a majority of products sold to the tourists on the markets are imported from China, Thailand and Vietnam. Some of the locally produced souvenirs include:

• Krama (traditional scarf)
• Ceramic works
• Soap, candle, spices
• Wood carving, lacquer ware, silver plating
• Painted bottles containing infused rice wine

Cultivation

Description	Survey	Ranking	World
Top 10 kiwifruit producers (2007)	Food and Agriculture Organization	10 (thousand metric tons)	1,160 (thousand metric tons)
Top 12 Rice Producers (2010)	Food and Agriculture Organization	8.2 (million metric ton)

 Source from http://www.angkortouristguide.com