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2 Riels Bon Touristique
| Issuer | Ministère du Tourisme du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Currency | First riel (1953-1975) |
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| Obverse lettering | MINISTERE DU TOURISME DU CAMBODGE BON TOURISTIQUE DEUX RIELS តំៃរៀល |
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| Reverse lettering | Ce bon est valable seulement pour le paiement des frais de chambre, de repas et de boissons. Le Délégué du Gouvernement Royal à la Direction du Tourisme |
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Cambodia's Ministère du Tourisme issued these bon touristique notes in the early 1960s as a parallel exchange mechanism — foreign visitors were required or strongly encouraged to convert currency into these vouchers, which could then be spent at approved hotels, restaurants, and state-run shops. The system was common among mid-century socialist-leaning governments seeking to capture hard currency while controlling where tourists spent it.
Sihanouk's government used the scheme during a period of ostentatious tourism promotion, when Angkor Wat was being aggressively marketed to Western and Asian visitors alike. These low-denomination vouchers circulated almost exclusively within that tourist economy and rarely survived in quantity — spent, discarded, or simply worn out in humid conditions that are particularly unkind to Cambodian paper of this period.