The Sihanouk International Airport and U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport were shortlisted in the Under 4 million passengers under the Routes Asia 2019 Marketing Awards. The Sihanouk International Airport, located in the coastal city of Sihanoukville near Cambodia’s southern border with Vietnam, has had a surge in traffic in recent years, rising from fewer than 100,000 passengers in 2015 to more than 650,000 in 2018. Ten new cities were directly linked to Sihanoukville last year, including Wenzhou, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. This year, it expects to break the 1 million passenger milestone. Much of the success is thanks to Cambodia Airports’ partnership strategy with stakeholders and tailor-made incentive programmes. The U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport serving Rayong and Pattaya cities in Thailand. The airport has just opened its second terminal building, which covers 22,000 square m etres and can accommodate 3 million passengers a year. The Thai government has an ambitious plan to further develop U-Tapao over the next 20 years as it seeks to position the Bangkok region as a major aviation hub in Southeast Asia.
