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Knai Bang Chatt: eighteen rooms, 90 percent international compliance, and a seat among the global chains
Platinum certification under the Green Growth 2050 standard requires a score above 90 percent across more than 400 indicators. It is held by a short list of global names: thirty properties in the Minor Hotels group, the St. Regis Bangkok, Niyama in the Maldives. Nearly all belong to groups with sustainability departments and budgets to match.

Editorial team
Sep 131 min read


Cambodia Tourism Board Launches Cultural Pop-up Shows to Bring Living Heritage to Life in Siem Reap
The Cambodia Tourism Board (CTB) is introducing a new Cultural Pop-up Show initiative, offering the public and travelers the opportunity to experience Cambodia’s rich living heritage through immersive on-site cultural performances twice a week at tourism sites across Siem Reap.

La Rédaction
Sep 72 min read


Cambodia & Tourism: Siem Reap Bets on Adventure and Authenticity to Reinvent Itself
As international arrivals to Angkor collapse in 2026, the province is turning to a new edition of the Cambodia Branding Forum, on 29 September in Siem Reap, to reposition the destination around active and adventure tourism.

Editorial team
Sep 74 min read


A Night at the Arunreas: Inside the Former American Embassy, Phnom Penh's Best Table and Bed
A stone's throw from the river, at the corner of Streets 51 and 228, a white building with Khmer-style pediments hides a singular history: a former American Embassy turned, twelve rooms later, into one of the capital's quietest and most sought-after addresses. Cambodge Mag spent the night.

Voyageuse Passion
Aug 264 min read


Violence Against Tourists: What the Cambodia–Thailand Comparison Actually Shows
On one specific measure — physical violence against tourists, particularly in nightlife settings — the comparison with Thailand tips clearly in Cambodia's favor. Cambodge Mag examined official travel advisories and documented incidents on both sides of the border.

Editorial team
Aug 264 min read


Cambodia Tourism Board and Chaktomuk Short Film Festival join forces to take Khmer cinema abroad
A matching grant agreement, signed on August 21 in Phnom Penh, is set to give the Chaktomuk Short Film Festival a bigger footprint beyond Cambodia's borders — and turn cinema into a new lever for cultural tourism.

Editorial team
Aug 243 min read


Cambodge & Portrait — Akim Ly: “Our difference is the people”
Raised within the walls of Angkor Wat, in the pagoda where her grandfather was Grand Abbot, Akim Ly grew up amid prayer, chores and resourcefulness. After thirteen years building businesses in Vietnam, she returned to Siem Reap to found Adventures Cambodia, a private tour company owned and run by women. A childhood at Angkor, a restaurant opened at sixteen, a commitment to preserving temples and supporting remote schools: a portrait of a woman for whom Cambodian hospitality i

Editorial team
Aug 239 min read


Destination & Tourism : RiverTree Villa & Resort, the hidden gem in Kampot's Makprang village
Nestling in the heart of splendid green spaces, the natural charm of the RiverTree hotel complex lures guests away from city life for a...

Carla Alves
Aug 233 min read


Tourism & Destination: Song Saa, the Cambodian island close to paradise
One of the perks of living in Cambodia is that paradise is never too far away. Which means you never really have to board a plane to track it down.

Nikki Sullivan Thalias
Aug 172 min read


Ream: The Golden Silver Gulf complex sets out to become a top holiday destination
Ream's Golden Silver Gulf International Tourism Resort - the spectacular 3,300-hectare complex set against the splendid backdrop of Cambodia

Christophe Gargiulo
Aug 173 min read


Cambodia & Destination : Picture-perfect Koh Kong farm-stay setting green standards
A picturesque farm stay in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district has become an attractive destination for many of the Kingdom’s nature-love

Voyageuse Passion
Aug 171 min read


Cambodia Tourism 2025 Review: Domestic Travel Cushions a Thai Border Crisis That Deepened in 2026
5.57 million international tourists visited Cambodia in 2025, down from 6.70 million the year before — the sector's first real contraction since the pandemic. The Ministry of Tourism's annual report points to a near-single cause: the collapse of overland arrivals through the Thai border, closed since June 2025 amid military tensions. Air travel, boosted by the new Techo International Airport, held up well, and domestic tourism, up sharply, cushioned the blow in provinces spar

Editorial team
Aug 175 min read


Destination & Tourism: La Villa De La Plantation, the perfect escape right in the heart of the stunning pepper fields of Kampot
Overlooking the gorgeous island of Phu Quoc and Bokor Mountain, La Villa De La Plantation in Kampot offers the most charming accommodation..

Voyageuse Passion
Aug 174 min read


90% of Cambodian Hoteliers Miss Targets — EuroCham Demands Visa Reform
Tourism revenue in freefall, EuroCham raises the alarm: the European chamber of commerce urges Phnom Penh to overhaul its visa policy to revive a sector in distress.

Editorial team
Aug 63 min read


Cambodia & Tourism: Chhlong, the Last Lights of the Mekong
Between baroque façades eaten away by the monsoon, a market bursting with color, and pre-Angkorian legends, Chhlong, a small town in Kratié province, still holds the memory of a vanished golden age.

Editorial team
Aug 46 min read


Tourism: Cambodia Tourism Board Sharpens Its International Marketing Strategy for H1 2026
International media, travel agents, airlines, partner tourism boards: in the first half of 2026, the Cambodia Tourism Board (CTB) rolled out a four-channel marketing strategy to reposition Cambodia on the global tourism map. It is groundwork whose effects, the institution itself cautions, will only be measurable in the medium term.

Editorial team
Aug 32 min read


Cambodia Tourism Board and Phare Ponleu Selpak Team Up to Position Cambodia as a Contemporary Arts Destination
The Cambodia Tourism Board (CTB) and Phare Ponleu Selpak, a Guinness World Record holder, have announced a strategic partnership around the 13th edition of the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, set for November 2026 in Siem Reap and Battambang. The collaboration aims to move Cambodia's tourism story beyond the temples of Angkor and present the country as a living, contemporary cultural destination.

Editorial team
Aug 33 min read


Tatai Bridge: Life Suspended Between Jungle and Mangrove
In the Cardamom Mountains, in Koh Kong province, a concrete bridge spans the Tatai River. Below it, motorized longtail boats, roadside vendors, and traveling musicians keep alive a riverine way of life that the road, and later the sand dredgers, nearly swept away.

La Rédaction
Aug 26 min read


Cambodia & Tourism: Stung Sen, the River That Carried Two Capitals
Between giant fruit bats, half-submerged water buffalo, and pre-Angkorian ruins swallowed by the forest, the Stung Sen River has watered the heart of Cambodia for over a thousand years — and quietly keeps sustaining one of the country's least-visited regions.

Editorial team
Aug 25 min read


Phú Quốc, the Island of a Thousand Names: Chronicle of a Disputed Sovereignty
Off the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, a teardrop-shaped island holds centuries of rivalry, colonial line-drawing, and quiet diplomacy. Today a Vietnamese tourist paradise, Phú Quốc still carries, beneath its white-sand beaches, the layered history of a territory once claimed by two nations.

Editorial team
Jul 273 min read


Crossed Cocktails: Siem Reap's Elephant Bar and Manila's Long Bar Swap Shakers
Two of Southeast Asia's most iconic hotel bars are joining forces this summer for a project as rare as it is bold: sending their finest bartenders across borders, shaker in hand.

Editorial team
Jul 122 min read


Ratanakiri: The Cambodia Time Has Not Yet Caught Up With
In the kingdom's furthest northeastern corner, where red dirt tracks meet a forest that never seems to end, seven highland peoples live by a calendar that neither Angkor, nor colonization, nor even Phnom Penh has managed to rewrite. A journey into a Cambodia before Cambodia.

Editorial team
Jul 65 min read


Cambodia's Tourism Paradox: Fewer Foreign Visitors, But a Kingdom Travelling More Than Ever
On paper, the numbers look alarming for Phnom Penh. On the ground, a different story is unfolding — one of a country rediscovering how to travel within its own borders.

Editorial team
Jun 303 min read


Destination: Angkor Botanical Garden, a paradise in Siem Reap
It's a botanical garden unlike any other in Siem Reap, or even in Cambodia. Over an area of 15 hectares, aromatic herbs, flowers, trees...

Rémi Abad
Jun 264 min read
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