SRP MP Son Chhay27 Jan 2009
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Tola Ek
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Bun Narith, director of the Apsara Authority, revealed to the local Koh Santepheap newspaper on 21 January the estimated amount of revenue from ticket sales to the Angkor archeological park. This issue raised questions from opposition MP Son Chhay.
According to accounts provided by Bun Narith, director of the Apsara Authority, to the Koh Santepheap newspaper, revenue from the sales of tickets to visit Angkor Wat amounts to between $30 and $31 million. The exact amount of the revenue is still unknown pending the ministries of Economy and Tourism ending their evaluations. Bun Narith underscored the fact that the [2008] revenue should be similar to that of 2007 which amounted to $32 million.
SRP MP Son Chhay reacted to Bun Narith’s claims: “Each year, the ticket sale revenue brings in at least $60 million. I am asking the government to investigate this problem. The daily reports (of revenue income) are not published, I wish to be able to look at them.” Son Chhay indicated also that he went to the spot on several occasions. “Since 2005, the year when the private Sokha Hotel company [owned by Sok Kong, a crony of Hun Sen] was involved in the management of ticket sales, no visible improvement of the site, both in terms of equipments and service, can be seen. The government must manage this source of revenue on its own,” Son Chhay said on the National Assembly floor.
Since 2007, distribution of the ticket sales revenue is performed as follows: [equal] sharing of the first $3 million revenue between Apsara Authority and Sokha Hotel company, for the remainder, 15% is reserved for the development of the site, 68% goes to Apsara and 17% to Sokha Hotel Company. In fact, Apsara’s portion of the share is sent directly to the state coffer. Only foreigners have to pay entry ticket fees amounting to between $20 and $60 based on the number of days of visit to the park (from one day to 7-day entry ticket.)
When reached over the phone on 27 January, Bun Narith could not comment on Son Chhay’s question because “he has a busy schedule.”
According to Thong Khon, the minister of Tourism, there was a 5.48% increase in the number of tourists visiting Cambodia. It appears that this increase did not affect the revenue from the Angkor archeological park ticket sales.
According to accounts provided by Bun Narith, director of the Apsara Authority, to the Koh Santepheap newspaper, revenue from the sales of tickets to visit Angkor Wat amounts to between $30 and $31 million. The exact amount of the revenue is still unknown pending the ministries of Economy and Tourism ending their evaluations. Bun Narith underscored the fact that the [2008] revenue should be similar to that of 2007 which amounted to $32 million.
SRP MP Son Chhay reacted to Bun Narith’s claims: “Each year, the ticket sale revenue brings in at least $60 million. I am asking the government to investigate this problem. The daily reports (of revenue income) are not published, I wish to be able to look at them.” Son Chhay indicated also that he went to the spot on several occasions. “Since 2005, the year when the private Sokha Hotel company [owned by Sok Kong, a crony of Hun Sen] was involved in the management of ticket sales, no visible improvement of the site, both in terms of equipments and service, can be seen. The government must manage this source of revenue on its own,” Son Chhay said on the National Assembly floor.
Since 2007, distribution of the ticket sales revenue is performed as follows: [equal] sharing of the first $3 million revenue between Apsara Authority and Sokha Hotel company, for the remainder, 15% is reserved for the development of the site, 68% goes to Apsara and 17% to Sokha Hotel Company. In fact, Apsara’s portion of the share is sent directly to the state coffer. Only foreigners have to pay entry ticket fees amounting to between $20 and $60 based on the number of days of visit to the park (from one day to 7-day entry ticket.)
When reached over the phone on 27 January, Bun Narith could not comment on Son Chhay’s question because “he has a busy schedule.”
According to Thong Khon, the minister of Tourism, there was a 5.48% increase in the number of tourists visiting Cambodia. It appears that this increase did not affect the revenue from the Angkor archeological park ticket sales.
9 comments:
sok cong's temple, what can you do ? all moeny belongs to this yuon. what the yuon couldn't get through armed invasion, now they get it through legal means. thanks to puppet parliaments full of yuon dogs.
Thon Khon, the minister of ministry of tourism proudly claimed his success in the INCREASE of foriegn tourists to Angkor Wat.
VS
In contrary, The Apsara Authority regretfully announced the DROP in Revenue from the Ticket Sales.
Which one should be sacked after the four star general?
From 60M to 30M is a lot of money!
Thanks for Mr. MP, that you always try your best for Cambodian.
One more thing, that I want you to investigate is on the Vietel Compnay launced a Telco business in Cambodia with prefex 097xxx xxx x, this system as I heard all equipment is install in Vietnam, when you make call all the data record in Vietnam, in Cambodia, only sites for coverage area, but the system is controlled in Vietnam and this is very dangerous for Cambodia country. Seem that our country is part of Vietnam.
Please you investigate on this and make the public show for alert Cambodia people.
Thanks for your help Cambodia and Cambodian...
Don't listen to Ah potato digger (Son Chhay). The loser doesn't know what he's talking about.
Why the west and the east of Khmer neigbors never leave Khmer alone? You both took so much land, and many island from us. Let Khmer live in Peace, and take Khmer currently government leaders with you. We do not need them, they are your boys. Khmer people do not need them.
There go another idiot (11:05) who got everything backward.
i know, someone has gotten to question it. doesn't it really benefit the public and people of cambodia from this ticket sales? concrete result can be evidential for this. perhaps, it's a question of management, not the system because the good system is in place, however the management is something else that needs to be scrutinized or audit so cambodia as a whole country can benefit from ticket sales; either khmer people will lose trust in management again. god bless.
No, we got world class management. The problem is our critics are incompetence.
Many countries know that cambodia has got world class corruption.you are an idiot.
kaun Khmer
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