Angkor Hotel a moderately modern hotel built and strongly inspired by the rich heritage of Khmer culture. As Cambodia hangs big hopes on cultural tourism, it's clear that virtually every other country in the regions doing the same thing.
Nobody appears to be trying harder than China.
Twenty-seven countries sent delegates to the recent World Tourism Organization conference on cultural tourism in Siem Reap. Most countries sent one or two representative China sent 14. If you count population, China is the world's biggest country with more than 1.2 billion people. If you count land mass, it comes third, only after Russia and Canada. Either way, it's the heavyweight in almost any equation, according to the organization, which predicts that by the year 2020 China, with an estimated population in the world, edging out perennial favorites France and Spain.