Construction of new hotels continues across the island in
2023, alongside near complete public works such as roads, electricity and lighting networks; and longer-term installments such as the island’s recently announced international airport.
Local business people suggest a growing supply of new hotel rooms will quickly be filled when the peak season arrives at the end of 2023, and early trends suggest Cambodia is burgeoning quickly in the luxury tourism market, with new rooms $100 per night and upwards.
Koh Rong Island now has all major destinations connected by hard roads, a big improvement for tourists looking to explore the whole island and increasing the ease of new development by private hoteliers.
Meanwhile, electricity and lighting grids have also almost completed across the entire island, in a large public work program taken on by the new municipality, officially divided from Sihanoukville province authority in 2019 into a self-governing region.
The Island’s first international airport is also underway, slated for completion in 2027/2028 under the Royal Group initiative announced this year.