Cambodia has approved plans for an international airport in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, hoping that rebuilding the facility will boost tourism.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Cambodia has approved plans for an international airport in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, hoping that rebuilding the facility will boost tourism.
Soy Sokhan, an undersecretary of state for civil aviation, said a rebuilt airport would be able to take direct flights from neighboring countries, allowing visitors to head for the country's beaches and have a quick link to the Angkor temple town of Siem Reap.
Like many of Cambodia's smaller airports that were once part of an extensive domestic network, the facility in Sihanoukville, 230 kilometers southwest of Phnom Penh, is closed.
The government hopes to reopen it to domestic flights by the end of the year and later introduce international routes, said Soy Sokhan.
There are also plans to reopen the airport in the northeastern town of Kratie, near a stretch of the Mekong river home to endangered Irrawaddy dolphins that Cambodia hopes to preserve as a tourist attraction.
Tourism is one of the few sources of foreign exchange for Cambodia, which is still clawing its way back to normalcy after nearly three decades of conflict that ended in 1998.
Almost 1.5 million tourist arrivals were recorded in 2005, mostly from Asian countries, and the hope is for three million annually by 2010. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Cambodia has approved plans for an international airport in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, hoping that rebuilding the facility will boost tourism.
Soy Sokhan, an undersecretary of state for civil aviation, said a rebuilt airport would be able to take direct flights from neighboring countries, allowing visitors to head for the country's beaches and have a quick link to the Angkor temple town of Siem Reap.
Like many of Cambodia's smaller airports that were once part of an extensive domestic network, the facility in Sihanoukville, 230 kilometers southwest of Phnom Penh, is closed.
The government hopes to reopen it to domestic flights by the end of the year and later introduce international routes, said Soy Sokhan.
There are also plans to reopen the airport in the northeastern town of Kratie, near a stretch of the Mekong river home to endangered Irrawaddy dolphins that Cambodia hopes to preserve as a tourist attraction.
Tourism is one of the few sources of foreign exchange for Cambodia, which is still clawing its way back to normalcy after nearly three decades of conflict that ended in 1998.
Almost 1.5 million tourist arrivals were recorded in 2005, mostly from Asian countries, and the hope is for three million annually by 2010. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
5 comments:
This is a sad day for Cambodian people! Everywhere you look, HUN SEN is making way for the tourism, tourism, and more tourism!
Cambodian people are being displace everywhere in Cambodia in the name of tourism development with no real benefit for Cambodian people!
More Cambodian people are becoming homless and gave up their way of life with no hope and no future for their family!
If any Cambodian people had been observing the pattern of developement in Cambodia over the years ,Cambodia is becoming a place for foreigners than a place for Cambodian people! Is it possible that Cambodia is becoming more like Hawaiian Island? There are more none-Hawaiian people living on Hawaii than Hawaiian people! But lucky for Hawaiian people they have a choice to move to the main land (United States) to find affordable housing! What about Cambodian people and do they have a choice to move anywhere? Yes! Cambodian people have a choice to move and to move and to move again and again and Cambodian people will never stop moving into uncertainty future! Cambodian people can't afford this uncertainty because they had been through this before and for more than 30 years!
There are strong and weak through out Cambodian history and it is up to Cambodian government to choose strong part of Camboodian history to make Cambodian people great again! Please stop and think before it is too late!
Good!
FIRST COMMMENTATOR, you're right on, on what you've said. Khmer people continue to suffer and struggle. The only way to make things right, is to removed and eradicate HunSen regime. Then Khmer people will have a better lives and better future, moving forward. With Hun Sen in-power, we're moving backward in history.
Give us real democracy and we will remove corupted leaders by vote!
Do any body think about National Uprising?
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