Several countries in East and South-East Asia noted an unprecedented increase in the flow of foreign tourists.
Between January and May of this year, China was visited by 1.5 times more travelers than in the same period a year earlier - a total of 202 thousand people. South Korea added to last year's indicator of 5% and demonstrated a result of 215 thousand tourists. Vietnam for the first five months of 2013 increased the flow of tourists by 11% and reached the bar of 314 000 people.
Despite the impressive achievements of the above-mentioned states, the most significant results for this period reached Cambodia .The Minister of Tourism of the country announced the other day the growth of the tourist flow by 19% - from 1, 5 to 1, 79 million people .It should be noted that tourism is a priority sector of the economy of Cambodia, the profit from which only last year amounted to $ 2 billion (an impressive amount for a poor Asian state) .In total, the authorities of the country hope to attract 4 million tourists this year, which is 500 thousand more than last year's indicator .
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