Tourists to Siem Reap jump 23% for the year

The number of foreign tourists visiting Siem Reap, home of the Kingdom’s iconic Angkor Wat temples, in 2011 is expected to have jumped 23 per cent year-on-year, according to provincial tourism officials. Foreign tourists to the province totaled 1.4 million through November, or 100,000 more than visited in all of 2010, Ngov Sengkak, director of the Ministry of Tourism’s provincial office in Siem Reap, said….