{"id":32432,"date":"2026-02-28T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=32432"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:10:35","slug":"scam-hit-cambodia-tries-to-woo-hong-kong-but-travel-agencies-have-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=32432","title":{"rendered":"Scam-hit Cambodia tries to woo Hong Kong but travel agencies have doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/28\/61ffbeb9-229c-4e81-a785-26c6b88790ca_7acc0e5a.jpg?itok=5s2IsUjn&amp;v=1772276114\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The head of Cambodia\u2019s tourism body is looking to build partnerships with Hong Kong travel agencies as part of a drive to get visitors returning to his country, which has been plagued by safety concerns in recent years.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Cambodia Tourism Board CEO Kim Minea also told the South China Morning Post that the government was \u201cdetermined\u201d to eliminate the notorious <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">scam compounds<\/span> that had trapped thousands of people, including <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hongkongers<\/span>, in recent years.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Hong Kong tour operators said safety was still a major concern among residents and it would be difficult to draw them back to the Southeast Asian nation in the short term.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cambodia, famous for the Angkor Wat temple complex, is heavily reliant on tourism, with the sector making up 9.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But tourism statistics showed arrivals to the kingdom were down by about 31.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2025, compared with a year earlier, coinciding with a border conflict that erupted with neighbouring Thailand last summer.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Hongkongers have avoided Cambodia in recent years following cases of residents <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">becoming trapped<\/span> in notorious scam centres operated by crime syndicates across the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3344979\/scam-hit-cambodia-tries-woo-hong-kong-travel-agencies-have-doubts?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Cambodia\u2019s tourism body is looking to build partnerships with Hong Kong travel agencies as part of a drive to get visitors returning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[6230,4927,9953,3569,5231,16879,151,6215],"class_list":["post-32432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-agencies","tag-cambodia","tag-doubts","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-scamhit","tag-travel","tag-woo","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}