(TITC) The Khmer Times published on 20th December 2022 highlighting the rise in travel between Vietnam and Cambodia, showing hope for a prosperous future.
Accordingly, travel activities between Asian neighbours Cambodia and Vietnam are accelerating after 2 years of hiatus.
A positive number of bilateral visitors
After a long period of being affected by the pandemic, Vietnam and Cambodia have completely opened international tourism to all border gates by air, land and water way. Currently, the two countries have recognized each other's vaccine passports.
The Khmer Times referenced, while more than 180,000 Vietnamese arrivals visited Cambodia, an almost similar number from Cambodia travelled to Vietnam in the first 11 months of 2022.
According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Cambodia ranked third as the source of foreign tourists, with 172.5 thousand arrivals, after South Korea (760,000) and the USA (270,000) to Vietnam in the first 11 months of 2022.
On the other hand, Vietnam ranked second after Thailand as the source of inbound tourists during the January-October period, according to the Tourism Statistics Report for October 2022 of the Ministry of Tourism of Cambodia. In the same period, Vietnam accounted for 21.7 percent of the total foreign visitor arrivals in Cambodia, against 8,898 visitors during January-October 2021, marking a change of 3,743 percent.
Leaders of the two countries promote bilateral relations
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen raised the hope during his speech at the Cambodia-Vietnam Investment and Trade Promotion Forum 2022 on 8th November that to strengthen and accelerate access and improve bilateral connectivity for better tourism relations between Cambodia and Vietnam.
By far Cambodia and Vietnam have put all efforts to maintain strong bilateral relations through senior leaders’ visit exchanges and continued contact between the people of the two countries as they are celebrating the 55th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties. In addition, the two countries have exchanged many high-level delegations in 2022.
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