AMMAN — Director General of the Jordan Tourism Board Abdul Razzaq Arabiyat told Al-Mamlaka
TV that some 12,000 tourists could be expected to arrive in Jordan on low-cost
flights by the end of this year.
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According to Arabiyat, 67 such flights are scheduled
until the end of the year, with tourists expected to spend an average of 6–7
days in the Kingdom.
Chairman of the Jordan Inbound Tour Operators
Association Awni Kawar told
Jordan News that the number forecast is
reasonable, and that “the autumn tourism season will flourish this year”.
Kawar added that September, October and half of November
are considered high season for this part of the world; it is also a period when
domestic tourism is weak, with the exception, perhaps, of weekends,
specifically in Aqaba.
Low-cost flights, Kawar said, contribute to
promoting Jordan. Nearly 40 million people from around the world visit
different world sites by resorting to low-cost airlines every month, and many
promote Jordan as a tourist destination.
Low-cost airlines are attractive to a large segment
of the world market, said Kawar.
Deputy Chairman of the Jordan Hotels Association
Abdul Hakim Al-Hindi told
Jordan News that “we certainly agree with the
JTB estimates, as it is familiar with the tourism trend”, adding that “we hope
that it (tourism) will revive the regions, especially the Golden Triangle
area”.
Hindi reiterated that charter flights and low-cost
aviation play an important role in supporting the tourism sector and in
promoting Jordan.
Tour guide Atef Zaidan told
Jordan News that
the estimate of 12,000 tourists arriving on low-cost flights “is a logical
number of tourists from Europe to Jordan”.
Zaidan said that reservations for the fall, which is
usually a “strong tourism season” start from the middle of September until the
end of November. However, he added, several factors affect tourism, like wars
and political tensions in neighboring regions, or, as was recently the case,
the corona pandemic,
Zaidan believes that this season will witness “full
reservations at camps, hotels, resorts, and other tourist facilities”.
The entry of foreign currency into Jordan, Zaidan pointed
out, is important to revitalizing the economy, and tourism is bound to have “a
positive impact on many sectors, such as restaurants, hotels, transportation,
tour guides, souvenir vendors, and travel offices”.
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