The number of tourists visiting Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province dropped 59% in the first half of the year, the Phnom Penh Post. The long-running dispute with Thailand over the ownership of land around the cliff-top temple - the province’s key attraction - caused a slide in overall tourist numbers from 85,000 in the first half of 2008, to just 34,500 so far this year.
The decline in foreign tourist numbers was even sharper - down 83% to just 5,050 visitors, from 30,000 in the same period last year.
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