廉价航空成柬埔寨旅游复苏关键 航线成本决定客流

[来源: CIR] [分类提示: NEWS] 标题: Opinion: Budget Airlines – The Missing Link in Cambodia’s Tourism Strategy Kim Sopheakrakboth The rise of low-cost aviation carriers (LCC) has redrawn the map of global travel. For Cambodia — while rebuilding its visitor economy — this phenomenon is not just an opportunity. It is a defining moment. The age of budget aviation has quietly transformed the way the world moves.  Across Southeast Asia, carriers like AirAsia, Scoot, Vietjet, and Lion Air have turned a leisure trip to a distant country from a luxury into an impulse decision — the kind of decision made on a smartphone at midnight.  Fares that once required months of saving are now clear on a lunch-break chat. And wherever these airlines land, tourist economies usually follow. For Cambodia, this revolution could not arrive at a more pivotal juncture. The tourism sector — one of its most significant economic engines — is still finding its footing after years of pandemic disruption.  Visitor numbers, while recovering, have not yet reached the level recorded in 2019 because the underlying infrastructure of accessibility that bring travellers to these shores in the first place remains a work in progress. LLC and the Democratisatin of Travel What budget airlines have done, fundamentally, is obliterate the perceived distance between the destination and its source markets.  The cost has long been one of the major deterrents for mid-market and budget-conscious travellers, to whom Cambodia has always been an appealing desti