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20 Riels Bon Touristique
| Issuer | Ministère du Tourisme du Cambodge |
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| Year | 1960-1969 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Plain white field carrying a two-line French text in letterpress stating the voucher's conditions of use, followed by the title Le Délégué du Gouvernement Royal à la Direction du Tourisme with a manuscript signature below. A circular official stamp of the Chaîne des Auberges Royales, Grand Hôtel d'Angkor appears at left. |
| 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 CHAINE DES AUBERGES ROYALES GRAND HOTEL D'ANGKOR |
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Cambodia's Ministère du Tourisme issued these Bons Touristiques as a controlled foreign-exchange instrument — visitors could exchange hard currency into these vouchers, which were then accepted at state-approved hotels and shops. The system effectively ringfenced tourist spending and kept foreign currency out of the parallel market that flourished under Sihanouk's increasingly strained economy during the 1960s.
These notes circulated in a very narrow channel and were not legal tender in any general sense. Surviving examples are genuinely uncommon; the vouchers were single-use instruments with no incentive for anyone to preserve them.