Published: 3:14pm, 13 Sep 2024Updated: 3:27pm, 13 Sep 2024
Cambodia is considering a visa-free travel facility for visitors from mainland China and Hong Kong in a move set to deepen people-to-people relations between the Asean member and the two East Asian economies, This Week in Asia has learned.
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Cambodian authorities are still finalising the details of the travel scheme but aim to announce this at the start of 2025, according to a source.
The comments come as Prak Phannara, secretary of state for Cambodia’s tourism ministry, expressed optimism about the relationship between Hong Kong and Cambodia during a 10-minute speech on Friday at the Hong Kong-Asean Summit 2024, organised by the South China Morning Post.
The summit was organised in partnership with the Hong Kong-Asean Foundation and the Our Hong Kong Foundation.
If successfully implemented, Cambodia will join neighbours such as Singapore and Thailand, which rolled out a visa-free arrangement with China to attract more tourists from the mainland earlier this year.