Chinese take a slice of Cambodia (SIHANOUKVILLE)
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Chinese take a slice of Cambodia (SIHANOUKVILLE)
Chinese take a slice of Cambodia (SIHANOUKVILLE)
SIHANOUKVILLE, 24 March 2016: Cambodia and 13 Chinese companies have signed agreement, late last week, to develop and supply services to its Golden Silver Gulf resort project in Sihanoukville.
The signing ceremony was held in Phnom Penh, last week, between Yeejia Tourism Development and its development partners, witnessed by Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhay Ly, the Council for Rural and Agricultural Development chairman, Tourism Minister Thong Khon, Environment Minister Say Samal, and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo, as well as Chinese investors and representatives from relevant institutions.
Phnom Penh Post reported the resort is already under construction on 3,300 hectares inside Ream National Park, and is set to include villas, five-star hotels, an exhibition centre, duty-free shopping and health facilities.
No explanation was given on how a major tourism project could be approved on national park land.
The development will cover 28 km of pristine coastline on the Ream Peninsula and western half of Koh Thmei island.
The project is about 18 km from Sihanoukville and 7.3 km from Sihanoukville International Airport.
The construction of a highway connecting the resort to Sihanoukville’s airport as well as the main highway to Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh, will begin later this year.
The developer did not indicate the cost of the project, or timeline for completion. Previous media reports have indicated the development would cost around USD5 billion and take 20 years to complete, the report said.
Tourism Minister Thong Khon was quoted saying the opening of the Golden Silver Gulf resort would draw more Chinese tourists to Cambodia’s coast.
“This investment is part of a response to [China’s] ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy and will attract more Chinese tourists.”
Whether revenue earned at the resort remains in the country and filters through to communities in an impoverished region remains to be seen.
Last year, the country attracted 4.77 million international visits compared to 4.50 million in 2014. Chinese arrivals ranked second recording 694,712 visits in 2015 increasing 24.0% from 560,335 visits in 2014.
Cambodia is expected to welcome as many as 2 million Chinese tourists to the kingdom by 2020.
Sihanoukville is the most popular beach town in Cambodia. It is a province in the southwest of Cambodia on the Gulf of Thailand. It is the oldest tourist destination on the coast and home to a thriving port and an airport.
Ministry of Tourism hopes to encourage international tourists to visit coastal areas and ecotourism destinations to take the pressure off Siem Reap, which dominates as the top tourist destination even surpassing Phnom Penh the capital.
Source: http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/03/c ... -cambodia/
SIHANOUKVILLE, 24 March 2016: Cambodia and 13 Chinese companies have signed agreement, late last week, to develop and supply services to its Golden Silver Gulf resort project in Sihanoukville.
The signing ceremony was held in Phnom Penh, last week, between Yeejia Tourism Development and its development partners, witnessed by Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhay Ly, the Council for Rural and Agricultural Development chairman, Tourism Minister Thong Khon, Environment Minister Say Samal, and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo, as well as Chinese investors and representatives from relevant institutions.
Phnom Penh Post reported the resort is already under construction on 3,300 hectares inside Ream National Park, and is set to include villas, five-star hotels, an exhibition centre, duty-free shopping and health facilities.
No explanation was given on how a major tourism project could be approved on national park land.
The development will cover 28 km of pristine coastline on the Ream Peninsula and western half of Koh Thmei island.
The project is about 18 km from Sihanoukville and 7.3 km from Sihanoukville International Airport.
The construction of a highway connecting the resort to Sihanoukville’s airport as well as the main highway to Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh, will begin later this year.
The developer did not indicate the cost of the project, or timeline for completion. Previous media reports have indicated the development would cost around USD5 billion and take 20 years to complete, the report said.
Tourism Minister Thong Khon was quoted saying the opening of the Golden Silver Gulf resort would draw more Chinese tourists to Cambodia’s coast.
“This investment is part of a response to [China’s] ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy and will attract more Chinese tourists.”
Whether revenue earned at the resort remains in the country and filters through to communities in an impoverished region remains to be seen.
Last year, the country attracted 4.77 million international visits compared to 4.50 million in 2014. Chinese arrivals ranked second recording 694,712 visits in 2015 increasing 24.0% from 560,335 visits in 2014.
Cambodia is expected to welcome as many as 2 million Chinese tourists to the kingdom by 2020.
Sihanoukville is the most popular beach town in Cambodia. It is a province in the southwest of Cambodia on the Gulf of Thailand. It is the oldest tourist destination on the coast and home to a thriving port and an airport.
Ministry of Tourism hopes to encourage international tourists to visit coastal areas and ecotourism destinations to take the pressure off Siem Reap, which dominates as the top tourist destination even surpassing Phnom Penh the capital.
Source: http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/03/c ... -cambodia/
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Re: Chinese take a slice of Cambodia (SIHANOUKVILLE)
Exactly what happened at Mai Khao beach in Phuket years ago... give an inch, take a mile.....
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we will not of that imperial nonsense here
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Re: Chinese take a slice of Cambodia (SIHANOUKVILLE)
Interesting! They are probably also planning to relocate all those businesses there kicking off the beach to national parkland.
Stimulate jobs & the economy for the good of the Cambodian people, how wonderful!
Stimulate jobs & the economy for the good of the Cambodian people, how wonderful!
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not 1 klm but 28 klms.....!! maybe I misread that........I hope so....
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gavinbrisbane wrote:not 1 klm but 28 klms.....!! maybe I misread that........I hope so....
I didn't follow the link since I had read this article a few days ago already but anyway I remember that this particular concession for touristic development is about 3000ha maybe even 5000ha...
Check the Ream area on Google map. About a third of the national park if not more was cut out. The demarcation line is now quite visible, going horizontally from the edge of town to the river. The numerous roads visible south of this horizontal line have been opened by them in the past few years and start to draw something resembling their master plan.
Years back I walked several times along this coast, from the Prek Chas beach (as far as my car could go and almost at the western boundary of today's yieya Chinese concession) to the big river in front of koh Thmey, that must be about 10 to 15km. Since they also control 50% of Koh thmey they surely have about 30km of coast.
On a side note, to be more effective, this article should have made the parallel with the mamouth other coastal development concession awarded to another Chinese entity. Seemingly at a greater distance since 150km or so by car from SHV but in reality just across the bay, maybe 30km. I can't remember the numbers but the project is 3 or 4 time bigger than the one in Ream...
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