Adjusted Angkor Passes extended for a year to attract more tourists

Angkor Enterprise, the state-owned institution in charge of Angkor income management, has decided to extend the deadline of policy to encourage sales of Angkor Archaeological Site’s entrance ticket for one more year, until December 31, 2022.

The move is aimed to facilitate and promote tourism services and to ensure the attractiveness of tourists to Angkor Archaeological Site as well as to the Kingdom of Cambodia during the Covid-19 pandemic, underlined the Angkor Enterprise in a news release dated December 27.

Under the policy, which has come into effect since March 11 of this year, foreign tourists buying a one-day entrance ticket can visit the Angkor Archaeological Park for two days, while the three-day pass will be increased to five days of visit and the seven-day pass to ten days of visit.

Moreover, the one-month entrance ticket will valid for two months; three-month pass, valid for six months; and six-month entrance ticket, valid for twelve months.

A single-day entrance pass costs $37, a three-day pass $62, and a seven-day pass $72.

A report of Angkor Enterprise shows that in the first 11 months of 2021, Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province received 9,488 foreign tourists, earning $385,696, a year-on-year decline of 97.63 and 97.93 percent, respectively.

In November alone, 2,202 international visitors were registered at Angkor Archaeological Park, up over 78 percent compared to the same period in 2020, generating $85,919, up 64 percent. 

Sourced AKP-C.Nika