2010: Visitors to Preah Vihear increase

The thousands years old Preah Vihear temple in Cambodia, a World Heritage Site on July 7, 2008, increased by 3.6 folds in 2010. To get the result, it is up to good security and better infrastructure in the area, according to cambodia.org.

Preah Vihear temple

The number of tourists increased 80,356 in 2010 and grew up 3.6 folds to the amount of 17,174  people in 2009. Especially, foreign tourists grew up 1,937 from 769 people in 2009.

"It's a huge increase of the tourists to the temple in 2010 due to better security and stability as the border tension with Thailand has been eased, and the good condition roads--easy to travel,"said Kong Vibol, adding "so visitors feel safe and more confidence to visit the temple."

Preah Vihear province has three attractive ancient temples for tourists. They are Preah Vihear temple, Koh Ker temple and Preah Khan Kampong Svay temple.

According to the Cambodia.org, in 2010 the province as a whole received 135,657 tourists, up 119 percent from 61,903 in 2009. Of the figure, foreign tourists were up 32 percent to 11,249 from 8,512 in 2009.

(www.cambodiatours.com)