While some French-language media outlets based in Thailand relayed— with enthusiasm seemingly outweighing fact-checking —the story of a “Cambodian casino” allegedly serving as an arms cache, the photographed scene tells a very different story.

With over twenty years of experience in tourism and gastronomy development, Arnaud Darc has been observing from Phnom Penh the evolution of a sector vital to the national economy. In his analysis of 2025, he makes a clear assessment: Cambodian tourism hasn’t undergone a collapse, but a brutal exposure of its structural fragilities.

The hours of traffic jams in the capital in the evening can be ‘hammering’, unbearable but sometimes almost poetic. To put it plainly, on...

« Cinq pour cent des bénéfices du bar seront reversés à une action caritative locale ». « Notre établissement soutient un programme...