Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City, Cambodian visitors! By the way, it used to belong to your ancestors

Cambodian visitors drawn to tourism industry

July, 27 2010
VNA (Hanoi)

With the aim of serving 4.5 million foreign tourists in 2010, the tourism industry is giving priority to the top ten markets boasting the highest numbers of visitors to Vietnam, including Cambodia.

Statistics released by the General Statistics Office show the number of Cambodian holidaymakers to Vietnam grew steadily during the first six months of the year, reaching 117,000, a year-on-year rise of 36 percent.

The tourism sector predicts the number of Cambodian tourists would surge by 30 percent in 2010 from 118,000 last year.

Ho Chi Minh City leads the nation in terms of attracting Cambodian visitors, making up 60-70 percent of the total number, followed by the Central Highland province of Lam Dong, the Mekong Delta province of An Giang and the southern province of Binh Duong.

Industry insiders said visa exemptions, high quality goods, attractive tourist destinations and convenient travel are the main factors after an increasing number of holidaymakers from Cambodia.

Transport firms such as Mai Linh and the Saigon Passenger Transportation Company (Sapaco) have highly valued the development of tourist transport services between the two neighbours. Every day, almost 80 bus trips full of passengers operate on the route.

In a recent interview, the Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism, He So Somara, said Cambodians used to prefer travelling to Thailand, but now they choose Vietnam for their holidays due to short distance, the availability of border gates, similar foods, low expenses, and diverse tourism forms, including resort and health tourism.

Dr Phan Thanh Hai, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City-based Medic centre, said an average of more than 100 Cambodian patients have come to the centre for medical checks-up each day, accounting for 10 percent of the total number. Other hospitals such as Cho Ray, Traditional Medicine and Vu Anh have become popular destinations of Cambodians.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Khmer people they're went to visited these ancestor land. One day we'll get it back from ah Youn.

Anonymous said...

welcome to prey nokor City belong khmer land

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...We,Khmer people,stop calling Ho Chi Minh City.We should call PREY NOKOR as we called hundred years ago.PREY NOKOR was our old city.

Anonymous said...

I'm with you brother 12:55PM, why some stupid people keeps call HO Chi Minh City.It's Khmer city it Prey Nokor city. Not fuckin Ho Chi shit city ok idiots.

Anonymous said...

Khmer Empire city present...

Capital: Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2M
1st big: Krung Tep Maha Nokor 10M
Krung Tap Maha Nakhan
2nd big: Prey Nokor, Cambodia 7M
Saigon nor Ho Chi Minh

Anonymous said...

hey, in capitalistic societyor market, all people are customers to your business, if you use hate, discrimation, etc, your business may suffer, ok! think smartly about it for change, i don't care who you are; customers are customers, there is no boundary for customers in the marketplace, really! wake up, cambodia!

Anonymous said...

12:13AM ! no bondary for customers???! cause of your advise that make ah Kwach Hun Xen in trouble!@!!!