On 17 Janaury 2011, at Serey Monkol Palace, HM the King greeted a delegation from the ASEAN countries together with the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, led by Cambodia’ s Tourism minister H.E. Mr Thong Khonn. This year the Kingdom of Cambodia hosted for the 2nd time the ASEAN Tourism Forum . The participants included the Tourism ministers of ASEAN+3, India and Russia. A TRAVEX exhibition was also held for the event.The 1st ASEAN Tourism Forum took place also in Cambodia in 2003.