{"id":6435,"date":"2023-08-16T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2023-08-16T18:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:55:24","slug":"cambodia-records-3-mln-intl-tourists-in-7-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/cambodia-records-3-mln-intl-tourists-in-7-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia records 3 mln int&#8217;l tourists in 7 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cambodia registered 3,037,344 international tourists in the first seven months of 2023, a significant rise of 308 percent from 743,459 over the same period last year, said a Ministry of Tourism&#8217;s report released on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand topped the chart among the international arrivals to the Southeast Asian country during the January-July period this year, followed by Vietnam and China, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, 1,065,233 foreign tourists visited Cambodia by air, up 237 percent and 1,972,111 by land and waterways, up 362 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Based on this figure, Cambodia is expected to attract at least 5 million international tourists in 2023,&#8221; Tourism Minister Thong Khon said, noting that the kingdom received only 2.27 million foreign travelers in 2022.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia registered 3,037,344 international tourists in the first seven months of 2023, a significant rise of 308 percent from 743,459 over the same period last year, said a Ministry of Tourism&#8217;s report released on Wednesday. Thailand topped the chart among the international arrivals to the Southeast Asian country during the January-July period this year, followed [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":6436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}