Cambodia’s accomodation industry has upsurgued greatly by the end of June, 2011, the number climbed up to 444 hotels, and 1,133 guesthouses accross the coutry whereas only 440 hotels (2,439 rooms), and 1,087 guesthouses (15,321 rooms) existed in 2010, according to Kong Sopheareak, official of Statistic depatment , Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism, as quoted from a Cambodian local media.
Hotel De la Paix - Siem Reap
“Within this six months, 2011, 4 hotels increased, and 46 guesthouuse more opened comparing to the period in 2010,” Sophearak said. Adding that, “10 hotels were ranked as 5- stars, 25 hotels rated as 4- stars,18 hotels are 3-stars, 3 hotels are two-stars, and at least 3 are one-star hotel.”
It should be addressing that, the soaring trend of accomodation services is contributed greatly by the local and internatioal investors who have vigourously poured huge capitals on this sector by having observed the positive tourism trend both from the locals and inbound visitors gradually year by year.
To his own perspective the soaring arrivals of international visitors so as the positive domestic tourist movements are related to the creations and developments of the wonderfully recrational sites such as the beautiful 440 km coastlines where recently have been recognized as a member of the Club of World’s Most Beautiful Bays stretching along the Sihanoukville, Kompot, Kep, and Koh Kong Province, the eco-tourism zone of the northeastern provinces, which are all potencially for tourism, yet still lack shelters for over-night stay visitors during major holidays.
Song Saa Island - Sihanoukville
It is a remarkable true that coastal province such as Koh Kong is rich for visitation but poor for accomodations, espeiallly during the major holidays like Khmer new year, chinese new year, Pchum Ben, the occasion in which no more rooms in hotels and guesthouses available for guests since tourists usually reserved the rooms days or even weeks before their arival to this far remote province, but rich in natural beauty.
4 Rivers Floating Eco-Lodge
It is so funny sometimes to know that tourists who visit province like Koh Kong during the long holidays, sometimes have to ask for share accomodaitons with the people, pagodas, or even anywhere available, simply because all rooms in the accomodaiton buildings are occupied. But it is true for the sites in which potentially rich for visitations, yet lack tourism infra-structure to serve.
Uy Vang Song, Owner and Manager of Srey Tmey Hotel, located in Chruy Changva, Phnom Penh, said he innaugurate the hotel in 2010, and since than on he admits, the guest amount is acceptable for the business existence and continuity.
Vang Song reveals the initiative to establish accommodaiton business as it is easy for him to employ labor force for hotel construction saying that , “while the world economy is on downturn direction, it is a comfortable opportunity to absorb labor forces with affordable cost to have my hotel built.”
He continued, during the economic recession, many workers are jobless, and it is an opportunities for me to absorb workers to build this hotel building, and by the time the construction completed, the economy was already bounching back to its positive direction, and noticibly, he recieves an acceptable amount of guests to stay in his hotel.”
Addressing that by the fist semester of 2011, the kingdom recieves 2.4 million international visitors, and It is expected by Tourism Ministry to receive about 2.8 millions by the end of 2011, 3 millions-2012, 3.5 millions-2013, 4 millions-2014, and 4.5 millions-2015, and 7 millions in 2020.
In sum, more tourists will come, and more opportunities to open accommodation services are expanded too.
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