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Article: TOURISTS SHUN CAMBODIA.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1997
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Byline: Seth Mydans The New York Times
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- ``It's zero,'' said Nongnuj Dobbs, Phnom Penh office manager for the East-West travel agency, describing tourism to Cambodia after July's coup.
``It's nil,'' said Meng Hieng, managing director of the Pich Tourist Co.
Chenda Sophea Sok, undersecretary of state in the ministry of tourism, agreed. ``Those images of evacuation planes killed us, killed the industry,'' he said.
More than a month since political tensions erupted in fighting in early July, virtually no one is visiting Cambodia for pleasure. Although both the fighting and the evacuation flights have ended, it could ...