via Xinhua/Cambodian Daily, 02 April 2021: A full year after Covid-19 we can see the effects on Southeast Asia’s most visited archaeological tourist icon – visits to Angkor were down 98.8% year on year.
Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archeological Park received 4,482 foreign visitors in the first quarter of 2021, down 98.8 percent from 383,663 over the same period last year, said a statement on Thursday.
The ancient park made a gross revenue of 185,079 U.S. dollars from ticket sales during the January-March period this year, also down 98.9 percent from 17.9 million dollars over the same period last year, said the state-owned Angkor Enterprise’s statement.
The huge slump was due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the Southeast Asian nation to impose entry restrictions for all foreign travelers since March last year.
