Kampot: $18M ADB plan for new town and seaport.

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Yes, I know where you live and I understand your point. My point is that you can still find something similar to that, there are areas that will hold out against klitschy development for a long time. Whether you are prepared to move to keep that lifestyle is basically a choice you have to make, given how it would inconvenience you.

I wouldn't go to Sinville again on holiday, or Kampot, but I would definitely consider trying a small place in Vietnam or Myanmar. If I couldn't afford that, I would try some place up river, maybe near Kratie .
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Ricky Shaw wrote: Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:30 am Happy pizza places in Kampot now. Moved from SV. So I heard.
There were at least two of them prior to the exodus from Shitsville.
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May 11, 2020
New port ‘will boost’ tourism
The construction of the new tourism port in Kampot province is more than 30 percent complete and is expected to be finished by the middle of the year, according to the Kampot provincial tourism department.

The project is supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). ADB approved an $8 million loan for the port project saying that it will open up new opportunities for tourism beyond current popular destinations like the Angkor Archaeological Park.

The port would play a vital role attracting tourists to the province, and would provide many financial benefits to the people of Kampot, said Soy Sinol director of tourism department of Kampot province.

“The new tourism port has completed some parts of the passenger terminal and road access to the port and expect to complete in April. However, because there is the outbreak of COVID-19, the project has been delayed,” said Sinol.

“The port would also facilitate travel along the Cambodian coast and enhance the flow of tourists from neighbouring Vietnam and Thailand,” Sinol added. “From the study, the tourism port will be potential to welcoming more than 4,000 tourist passing Kampot province daily for the first opening. The port is serving only the tourists not cargo or light freight transport,” according to Sinol.

“We are not only developing the tourism seaport, but we are trying our best to create attractive tourism products, and promoting our tourism product to the world,” Sinol said, adding that Kampot has many tourist attractions such as Borkor Mountain as well as architecture left over from the French colonial era.

Last year, Kampot welcomed about 1.6 million local and international tourists. Of those, 10 percent were international tourists and most of them were from Vietnam, the European Union and Asia-Pacific. At present, Kampot has 17 tourism sites, four tourism communities and four tourism destination (pepper farms, salt fields, heritage building and river views).

The provincial authority has been developing the new beach in the new Kep area which is located to the West of Kampot to attract the tourists to visit Kampot province. Moreover, it is also developing Koh Seh (Horse Island) to be an attractive tourism site because this island has clear water, sea flowers and is good for diving and will take one hour by boat from Kampot town.
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ciao ciao Kampot & Kep..will probably have the same effect as the airport in Samui
work is for people who cant find truffles
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This just does not add up.
$8-10 million loan (sounds far too cheap for these massive numbers)
Ships carrying 2-300 passengers (tiny these days)
440,000 entries annually by 2020 (scoff)
4000 daily - what, 12-15 ships per day.
Completed mid this year (Ha!)

and anyway - the cruise ship industry will be dead for years now. (probably)
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Anyone know what/where this is referring to:
The provincial authority has been developing the new beach in the new Kep area which is located to the West of Kampot to attract the tourists to visit Kampot province.
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phuketrichard wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2017 2:12 pm look on the positive side;
this might drive the hipsters out of town
and bring in casinos and gangsters

yeah, great change
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UPDATE: The new Kampot tourist port project is on hold, and is now expected to be operational in early 2022, according to the Ministry of Tourism

Tourism Port Construction Completion Deadline Delayed to Next Year
AKP Phnom Penh, September 14, 2020 --

The deadline of completion of tourism port construction in Kampot province is delayed to late 2021 while the construction is currently 30 percent complete.

The construction fails to meet the deadline as planned this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to H.E. Top Sopheak, Under-Secretary of State and Spokesperson at the Ministry of Tourism.

“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deadline is rescheduled for late 2021, and if there is no change, in early 2022, the port will be put into operation,” H.E. Top Sopheak told AKP on Monday.

Upon completion, the port will contribute as a gateway for tourists to travel to the coastal province.

Located in Tek Chhou district, the seaport is 300 metres long and can accommodate vessels carrying 300 to 400 passengers.

The seaport construction costs about US$8 million[sic] with funding from a loan of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

At least 2.5 million national and foreign tourists are expected to visit Kampot province by 2023, according to the province’s tourism development plan 2019-2023.

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Fin Times - on the cruising industry...
"Martin Luen, a banker specialising in travel at Baird, an investment bank, warns that it will be a slow return to growth: “Sectors at the scene of the car crash are rarely the first ones to recover.”

And cruising was certainly at ground zero of the covid-19 car crash.

Tourism Cambodia might have to clock up another one in the "can't win a trick" department.
- along with ecotourism after all the trees mysteriously fell over and floated off to Vietnam and China in the morning mists. (that was a car crash too).
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Some fantastic initiatives to expand tourism being thrown around recently. Giant new airports, eco-tourism projects chewing up the environment, a "tourism" port in Kampot for grounded cruise ships, and lets not forget the advice for tourists not to skip Cambodia even though they can't even get a visa:

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... -skip-trip
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