For the first six months of 2007, Cambodia’s international visitor arrivals increased 19.91 percent to reach 975,349. The Siem Reap Province alone attracted 615,445 visitors or 63.1 percent of the total share. Meanwhile, Phnom Penh and other destinations had brought in a total of 359,903 visitors, accounting for 36.90 percent of the total.

The latest figures for June also reveal that 66.56 percent of visitors arrived in Cambodia by air, which is 35.8 percent higher than the previous year. This includes flights scheduled through the Phnom Penh and Siem Reap International Airport, which attracted 26.3 percent and 40.26 percent of total visitors respectively.
 
Visitors who travelled to Cambodia by land or waterways made up the remaining 33.44 percent of visitors. Individually, visitors by land comprised of 262,420, with a share of 26.91 percent while waterways accounted for 2.13 percent of the total.
 
South Korea maintained its leading position as Cambodia’s top inbound market, accounting for 20.45 percent of the total, which is an increase of 34.13 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2007. Japan ranked second with 76,442 visitors and achieved a 7.85 percent increase against the previous year. The US was Cambodia’s third largest inbound market with 68,379 arrivals, accounting for 7.01 percent of the total number of visitors.

Taiwan achieved a 78.39 percent increase in its visitor numbers to Cambodia, while inbound visitors from Vietnam jumped 63 percent. Visitors from China on the other hand also increased 57.52 percent as did visitors from Thailand which grew 27.22 percent. Arrivals from Malaysia also increased 11.14 percent.