{"id":194,"date":"2008-12-02T20:04:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-12-02T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T12:12:40","slug":"thailands-crisis-could-cost-cambodia-100m-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/current-affairs\/thailands-crisis-could-cost-cambodia-100m-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai crisis may cause $100m loss to Cambodian tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-family: Arial;\"><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"600\" align=\"center\" bordercolor=\"#ffcc66\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"465\" bgcolor=\"#ffcc00\"><strong><span class=\"font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53 ;font-size: 9pt\">\u6b22\u8fce\u8bbf\u95ee\u65b0\u534e\u7f51<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; WWW.XINHUANET.COM<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"23\" bgcolor=\"#ffdc71\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"13\" bgcolor=\"#ffe8a2\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"12\" bgcolor=\"#fff1bb\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"15\" bgcolor=\"#fff8d9\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"34\" bgcolor=\"#fff9dd\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#eaeaea\">\n<td class=\"p9\" colspan=\"6\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>&gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">\n<hr size=\"1\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<td colspan=\"6\">\n<table class=\"main\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) &#8212; The tourism industry of Cambodia will see a loss of 100 million U.S. dollars this year, if the current chaos in Thailand can&#8217;t be reversed in three months, Cambodian media on Tuesday quoted minister as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Thai capital is a regional hub, from where tourists can enter Cambodia, so the situation there can have direct impact over the tourism industry here, Cambodian Tourism Minister Thon Khong told Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial News.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0About 1,500 passengers come to Cambodia through Bangkok everyday, making up 30 percent of all daily entry of visitors into the kingdom, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Each of them is expected to spend 770 dollars per day in the country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When times were stable, 10 to 12 flights shuttle between Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Bangkok, but the crisis in the neighboring country has stopped the boom and will lead to loss to Cambodia for sure, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tourism is one of the pillar industries of Cambodia. Over two million foreign tourist arrivals are expected this year according to the government&#8217;s original plan, but the number has been scaled down by almost a quarter recently due to the global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">\n<hr size=\"1\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\" bgcolor=\"#ffcc66\">\n<div class=\"p9\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">\u65b0\u534e\u7f51\u7248\u6743\u6240\u6709<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u6b22\u8fce\u8bbf\u95ee\u65b0\u534e\u7f51 &#8211; WWW.XINHUANET.COM \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &gt;&gt; \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PHNOM PENH, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) &#8212; The tourism industry of Cambodia will see a loss of 100 million U.S. dollars this year, if the current chaos in Thailand can&#8217;t be&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/current-affairs\/thailands-crisis-could-cost-cambodia-100m-minister\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}