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>> I wonder if it will accelerate the pace of restoration of temples in the area.

Likely not; current restoration projects are a shitshow, with an utter lack of coordination and even communication between the various country teams involved. In one temple, the Indian team tried to clean a wall and stained it; the Chinese restoration crews make the plainest and cheapeast concrete fillers to plug gaps in rock faces, they flake if you touch them. And now, the authority in charge of maintaining the complex is struggling with how to balance the much-valued tourism with air pollution; UNESCO has threatened status and funding if it doesn't address the impact that mostly auto/bike exhaust is having on temple faces. Other restoration projects will only get initiated if someone else is spending the money, and also kicks back to Phnom Penh.

>> to the point where they filmed Indiana Jones there!

Alongside Indy, Lara and Tony Leung, my favorite film reference is at Beng Mealea, and bonus points for the article for mentioning that temple. It's about 45km away down a dusty rutted road, and before it was added to the ticket list, the only people who visited besides domestic tourists were Japanese, because Hayao Miyazaki took it as inspiration for the setting "Laputa: Castle in the Sky." If you ever saw the old Japanese tourism books with the blue outer edge, Beng Mealea was mentioned in that, and every non-Khmer there would be clutching it.