Cambodian islands to be developed into new tourist mecca
DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's pristine islands are to be the focus of a new government push to attract developers and broaden the base of the country's growing tourism market, local media reported Sunday.
The English-language Cambodia Weekly quoted Tourism Ministry secretary of state Thon Khon as saying the 61 mostly untouched islands had been identified by the government as ideal development and investment opportunities.
The government is keen to develop its booming but narrow-based tourism industry beyond the temples of Angkor Wat in the country's north in order to create a more robust tourism economy.
'We need to link the Angkor temples to the beaches ... Although we have many tourism sites, our two biggest potential draws are the Angkor Wat temples and the beaches,' the newspaper quoted Khon as saying.
The paper also quoted investment chief for the Council for the Development of Cambodia, Sourn Sothy, as saying that there were a number of bids on the table centered around Cambodian islands in the Gulf of Thailand.
Sothy said the government was keen for rapid development in the area, and was demanding earnest money of 1,000 dollars per hectare from investors which would be forfeited by those who sat on land and failed to develop it within six months.
Last September the government announced it had signed an agreement to allow a Russian company to develop a coastal island into a tourist resort with an initial investment of up to 300 million dollars.
The Ministry of Tourism annual report released last week recorded 1.7 million visitors to Cambodia in 2006, up by nearly 20 percent. The country registered 1 billion dollars in tourism revenue in 2006, up from $832 million in 2005.
However these figures were highly dependent on visitors to Angkor Wat, the gateway of which, Siem Reap, has an international airport.
Earlier this year Sihanoukville Airport also reopened, and the Tourism Ministry has said it is keen to attract tourists from Angkor to its stunning white sand beaches and islands in the south-west of the country, around 240 kilometers from the capital.
The English-language Cambodia Weekly quoted Tourism Ministry secretary of state Thon Khon as saying the 61 mostly untouched islands had been identified by the government as ideal development and investment opportunities.
The government is keen to develop its booming but narrow-based tourism industry beyond the temples of Angkor Wat in the country's north in order to create a more robust tourism economy.
'We need to link the Angkor temples to the beaches ... Although we have many tourism sites, our two biggest potential draws are the Angkor Wat temples and the beaches,' the newspaper quoted Khon as saying.
The paper also quoted investment chief for the Council for the Development of Cambodia, Sourn Sothy, as saying that there were a number of bids on the table centered around Cambodian islands in the Gulf of Thailand.
Sothy said the government was keen for rapid development in the area, and was demanding earnest money of 1,000 dollars per hectare from investors which would be forfeited by those who sat on land and failed to develop it within six months.
Last September the government announced it had signed an agreement to allow a Russian company to develop a coastal island into a tourist resort with an initial investment of up to 300 million dollars.
The Ministry of Tourism annual report released last week recorded 1.7 million visitors to Cambodia in 2006, up by nearly 20 percent. The country registered 1 billion dollars in tourism revenue in 2006, up from $832 million in 2005.
However these figures were highly dependent on visitors to Angkor Wat, the gateway of which, Siem Reap, has an international airport.
Earlier this year Sihanoukville Airport also reopened, and the Tourism Ministry has said it is keen to attract tourists from Angkor to its stunning white sand beaches and islands in the south-west of the country, around 240 kilometers from the capital.
6 comments:
We would love to offer Koh Tral
island as well, but it is not ours.
It is part of KK (or KI Media)
territories; thus, it is up to KK
(or KI Media) to do that
themselves.
And stop trying foolish trick,
loserssssssssssss!!!! ha ha ha ha
Anon@2:26PM,
I told you before, your French stinks, your English stinks. I am now telling you again, your French stinks, your English stinks. So quit posting your comments. It stinks.
Shove your ideas up your arse please?
2:26 PM, you are probably a little boy just grow up. If were just a little bit older you know Koh Trol is Khmer's. It is only 8 kilometer about about 5 miles from Cambodian coast. From naked eyes, you can see the island. For the Vietnam, it is an act of aggression to just take the island by send their people to live there during the Khmer Rouge years. This is what you called nation of thief; littly they send their people to live there. If you look at the map it will tell the whole story and you are happy about it asshole fool! unless you are Youn. This is your good neighbor!
Wrong, KK territories belong KK
only, and it makes no difference
how it is connected to Cambodia or
separated from Cambodia or how it
locates around Cambodia. So, your
trick to drag us into war for
someone else territories ain't
gonna work. Give it up, enough
excuses. Get a life, will ya?
And when the tourists want to get laid they can come to the mainland where the impoverished Cambodians are.
True, and that will continue to
happened until there are jobs for
everyone. No one like to sell their
body, but they have no other
choice. Thus, I called on all
parties, to get off their obese
asses and go to work, enough with
bickering that goes no where for
decades. Doesn't that make sense?
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