AMMAN — Hotel
occupancy increased during
Independence Day celebrations, according to Abdul
Hakim Al-Hindi, head of the Jordan Hotels Association.
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While occupancy in
Amman reached 45%, it reached 86% in the Dead Sea, 76% in Petra and 92% in
Aqaba, Hindi told
Jordan News.
Ahmed Al-Rifai, a spokesperson for the Ministry of
Tourism and Antiquities, said figures for tourism income and the number of
visitors during the first third of the year are consistent with the figures
projected by the ministry within a national tourism strategy.
In the first
quarter, tourism revenue amounted to $1.213 billion, while the number of
tourists visiting the Kingdom during the first third of this year exceeded 1
million, Rifai said.
He said explained
that lifting the travel restrictions that existed under
COVID-19 and easing the
procedures imposed in the wake of the pandemic led to a recovery in the tourism
sector.
Mahmoud Al-Awadi,
owner of the tourism and travel office, said domestic tourism fares better than
Jordanians leaving abroad.
“Local tourism is
good, while trips outside Jordan are weak this year, compared with the years
preceding the pandemic”, Awadi said. He asserted that prevailing economic
conditions are the reason.
“It is unfair to
compare tourism this year with the year of the pandemic,” he said. “We need
three years of work to compensate for the losses incurred during the
coronavirus.”
A member of the
Tourist Guides Association, Ahmed Al-Malhas,
said tourism began to improve after two years “of almost no movement”. He
stressed that the tourism sector “is very sensitive due to the influences that
may weaken it and, therefore we cannot rely on it as a major source of income”.
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