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Cambodia Sustainable Tourism Development

"Cambodia Sustainable tourism refer to industry committed to making a low impact on the natural environment and local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for local. Thus, Cambodia's sustainable tourism should:

1. Make optimal use of environmental resources that constitute a key element in tourism development, maintaining essential ecological processes and helping to conserve natural heritage and biodiversity.
    
2. Respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host communities, conserve their built and living cultural heritage and traditional values, and contribute to inter-cultural understanding and tolerance.

For long term economic and social development survival. There is a must to ensure viable, long-term economic operations, providing socio-economic benefits to all stakeholders that are fairly distributed, including stable employment and income-earning opportunities and social services to host communities, and contributing to poverty alleviation.


World Tourism Organization : "Sustainable tourism development guidelines and management practices are applicable to all forms of tourism in all types of destinations, including mass tourism and the various niche tourism segments. Sustainability principles refer to the environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development, and a suitable balance must be established between these three dimensions to guarantee its long-term sustainability.

Sustainable tourism development requires the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership to ensure wide participation and consensus building. Achieving sustainable tourism is a continuous process and it requires constant monitoring of impacts, introducing the necessary preventive and/or corrective measures whenever necessary.

Sustainable tourism should also maintain a high level of tourist satisfaction and ensure a meaningful experience to the tourists, raising their awareness about sustainability issues and promoting sustainable tourism practices amongst them."
Cambodia is bored by Thailand in the west and northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam in the east, Cambodia was once perceived as the farmland of Asia. Cambodia has the land of 181,000 sq. km. During this Golden Age of the Cambodian tourism industry, Phnom Penh with its distinctive cultures, customs, economy and heritage -- Thousand of World's Greatest Temple and Many ancient temple, legendary temples near Siem Reap and especially, the Angkor Wat, The attractive coastal beach at the South and Eco-Tourism attraction at North East. -- were considered the major tourist attractions.