[PHNOM PENH POST]
Cambodia will require an additional 1,000 restaurants by 2020 to serve
the Kingdom’s growing tourism sector, Ministry of Tourism officials say.
By
2020, seven million international visitors, and as many as 10 million
domestic tourists, were expected to visit the country’s tourist
destinations each year, Tith Chantha, general director of the General
Department of the Ministry of Tourism, said at the inaug-ural “Clean
Restaurants, Clean Food Shops and Good Service” seminar last week.
“We
hope that by 2020, we will have between 2,000 to 2,500 restaurants in
the country,” he said, adding that Cambodia currently has about 900
restaurants that cater to tourists.
The demand for restaurants
could create up to 40,000 jobs in the next nine years, he said, with the
tourism industry expected to earn US$4 billion per year in revenues by
2020.
The Ministry of Tourism estimated that 2.8 million
international tourists will visit Cambodia in 2011, a 15 per cent
year-on-year increase on the 2.5 million that visited in 2010.
Ho
Vanny, co-president of the Working Group for the Development of
Tourism, said the Kingdom’s growing popularity with international
tourists and the pending 2015 ASEAN Economic Community mean more
restaurants are required.
“By 2015, all ASEAN countries’ borders
will be open,” he said, which may result in greater numbers of tourists
entering the Kingdom.
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