Russia and Cambodia will sign a cooperation program in tourism in 2010

The authorities of Russia and Cambodia are preparing a two-year program of cooperation in tourism, which is expected to be signed in 2010, the Federal Tourism Agency of Russia (Rostourism) said on Thursday.

This was discussed at the meeting of Russian Intergovernmental Russo-Cambodian Commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation, which was held at Rostourism on November 3.

According to the authorities of Cambodia, in the previous year the country was visited by about 17 thousand Russian citizens, of which 16.5 thousand visited the country with the purpose of tourism.