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Angkor and Beyond: the Asian tourism phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Geoffrey Gunn
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Once a synonym for war and revolutionary terror, we wonder at the rebirth of Cambodia as tourist destination of choice. We wonder at the market forces that privilege an approach to travel keyed to providing the costly facilities and infrastructure required to enable large numbers of rich international tourists to descend upon places that were utterly inaccessible only a decade ago. We wonder, too, at the ability of the market to adjust to risk calculation as dramatized by the Asian tsunami of 2004 and the Bali bombings of 2002 and 2005.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , March 2005 , e16
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[1] For examples of recent convictions for these crimes see <http://www.childsafe-cambodia.org/arch.asp>

[2] See the author's “Prospects for Reform in Indochina” in Pacific Review, vol.1, no.4 1988, pp.374-384

[3] See the website of the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism <http://www.mot.gov.kh/statistics.asp>

[4] Number of foreign visitor arrivals to Indonesia by country of residence (2000-2004), Badan Pusat Statistik/Statistics Indonesia <http://www.bps.go.id/sector/tourism/table16.shtml>

[5] Ronald Bruce St. John, “Democracy in Cambodia - One Decade, US$5 Billion Later: What Went Wrong?” Contemporary Southeast Asia 27, no.3 (2005), pp.406-28.

[6] Matt Gross “Why is Everybody Going to Cambodia?” New York Times, 22 January 2006.