AMMAN — Deputy Chairman of the
Jordan Hotels Association Hussein Al-Helalat said that hotel occupancy rates during Eid al-Fitr are
expected to reach 90 to 95 percent, and that the majority of reservations have
been made for Dead Sea and Aqaba hotels.
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Helalat told Jordan News that tourism in Jordan has been improving recently, due to the easing of
procedures related to the
COVID-19 pandemic, and the beginning of spring and
summer seasons, adding that it is expected to “witness significant recovery
after nearly two years of pandemic”.
“There is vast
improvement in the percentage of bookings this year compared to the same time
last year,” he added.
With conditions
“promising and boding well”, summer will contribute to a revival in the tourist
activity, Helalat said, adding that “tourists from different countries are
expected to come to Jordan”.
Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Dead Sea Hotels Company Michael Nazzal does not seem
to agree.
He told Jordan News that “the improvement that tourism will witness during the Eid period does not
indicate that there is a recovery in the tourism movement in Jordan”.
There is a slight
improvement in tourist activity, following the government’s recent decision to
lift the strict measures related to the pandemic, he said, “but these decisions
came late, especially since foreign tourists prefer to book a long time in
advance”.
According to
Nazzal, in Jordan, “we usually notice an improvement in the tourist movement at
the beginning of the spring, especially in April, but this did not happen this
year due to the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. We hope that tourism will
improve during the summer”.
He added that “we
will witness a decrease in the turnout of tourist groups to Jordan during the
coming period, but there will be a turnout of individuals, but things will not
return to what they were before the pandemic”.
“Things have
totally changed after the
COVID-19 pandemic, and all sectors must keep pace
with the development of technology in order to be able to continue,” he added.
Tour guide Daoud
Samaan told Jordan News agrees that tourism in Jordan is not near the
pre-pandemic figures, as borne out by the “weak turnout of tourist groups”.
“We cannot say
that tourism witnessed a revival because of the high rates of reservations on
holidays and occasions. We need to work throughout the year at the same pace to
compensate the losses incurred by the tourism sector in the last two years,” he
said.
Samaan urged the
government to develop short- and long-term plans in order to improve the
tourism situation in Jordan and attract tourists from different countries of
the world.
Also important, he
said, are promotional campaigns that shed light on the various tourist
attractions in Jordan to encourage tourists to come and make them repeat
visitors.
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