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Cambodian tourism up 13 per cent in first half of 2008
Aug 7, 2008, 3:27 GMT
Phnom Penh - Despite border disputes over a remote temple in the country's far north, tourist arrivals to Cambodia were up by 13 per cent in the first half of 2008, Cambodian Ministry of Tourism statistics received Thursday showed.
The ministry said nearly 1.1 million foreigners had visited the country in the first six months of the year, an increase on 2007, when total annual tourist arrivals topped 2 million for the first time.
A territorial dispute on the Thai-Cambodian border focused mainly on land around the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple, 300 kilometres north of Phnom Penh, had not had any immediate effect on tourist arrivals, according to the figures.
They showed that more than half the country's international visitors visited Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex, which remains Cambodia's main tourist attraction.
Tourism is one of the country's leading industries.
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