AMMAN — Sales of tourist restaurants in
the Kingdom saw a significant increase in the first nine months of 2022,
compared to those in the previous two years, when the COVID-19 pandemic was at
its peak, head of the
Jordan Restaurants Association (JRA) Issam Fakhreddin
said on Tuesday, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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Fakhreddin said that the relaxation of regulations
and precautions imposed on various sectors, including tourist restaurants and
summer festivals and events, helped the restaurant industry recover 80 percent
of its pre-pandemic sales.
He noted that since the start of 2022, some 82
tourist establishments of various types and classifications in the Kingdom have
joined the JRA.
Fakhreddin also highlighted the sector’s key
challenges, most notably the shortage of trained and qualified Jordanian labor,
the high operational costs, such as energy prices, and licensing fees.
He said that the pandemic forced qualified workers to switch
industries, migrate to the
Gulf countries, or, in the case of foreign laborers,
to go back to their home countries.
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