Coronavirus causes plunge in Angkor Wat visitor numbers
Southeast Asia’s most famous temple complex saw a staggering decline in ticket revenues last month.
Revenue at Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park sank by a mammoth 99.5% in April.
Normally raking in about $7 million a month, it banked less than $30,000 in ticket sales, with just 654 foreign visitors visiting the UNESCO site.
Overall, revenue is down 60% from January to April this year, the state-run Angkor Enterprise said.
It comes despite ticket prices being slashed to $37 for a one day pass, $62 for three days, and $72 for seven-day passes for foreign visitors.
Cambodians can currently visit free of charge.
Even before the Covid-19 outbreak, visitor numbers at Angkor Archaeological Complex had already been declining, which is attributed to a fall in Chinese tourists visiting the city of Siem Reap.
Siem Reap makes up a large portion of Cambodia’s more than six million annual foreign visitors and more than 40% of them are from China.
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