PHNOM PENH, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia attracted a total of 784,965 Chinese tourists in the first eight months of 2025, a year-on-year increase of 45.7 percent, a tourism official said here on Friday.
Heng Sokchamroeun, an undersecretary of state at Cambodian Ministry of Tourism, said the number of Chinese tourists accounted for 19.3 percent of the 4.05 million international tourist arrivals to the kingdom during the Jan.-Aug. period this year.
China was the third-largest source of foreign holidaymakers to the kingdom after Thailand and Vietnam.
"The future of Cambodia's tourism sector is inseparable from the inflows of Chinese tourists and investors," he said in a speech during a Xinjiang cultural and tourism resources overseas promotional event in Phnom Penh.
"The growth of Chinese tourists is an important opportunity, not only to boost the development of the tourism industry, but also to create investment opportunities in other sectors," he added.
Sokchamroeun said the Cambodia-China Tourism Year 2025 would give a further boost to the flows of tourists between the two countries.
Tourism is one of the four pillars supporting Cambodia's economy, in addition to garment, footwear and travel goods export, agriculture, and construction and real estate. ■
