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| Cambodia Sea Festival 2011-2012 |
Having approval from the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, Provincial Authorities of Kep and Kampot, Concerned Ministries, Institutions, and Private Sectors will organize the Sea Festival under the theme “Blue Sea, Green City” to be held from 7th- 8th December 2013 in Kep province.
This important event is also celebrated together with the 9th world congress of the most beautiful bays in the world club, the 2nd SOM CLMV tourism meeting
The sea festival will be segmented into four main activities: live concert, artistic performance, musical entertainment, and fire work, and international food and beverage festivals, and presentation of tourism development project as coastal zones and beach and water sport activities and aero show.
There are 50,000 attended Sea Festival in SihanoukVille. The two-day event, which started in 2011 as a tourism booster for the country’s coasts and beaches, was cancelled last year due to the death of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk in October 2012.
The rooms will be at a premium at Kep province. Even the prices will be at a premium, there are 1,300 rooms will all be filled, and some people will be staying in Kampot or at the top of Bokor Mountain and going to the festival in the day.
Even after the festival, all of December and January 2014, rooms will be pretty much filled.
Kep is in southeast part of the country and has been considered as the main economic pole of the country beside world tourism destination Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province, commercial and cultural, administrative center in Phnom Penh city, and eco-tourism northeastern part.
