AMMAN — Jordan's 2022 tourism
revenues increased by 110.5 percent compared to the previous year’s tourism
income (around $2.7 billion), to reach $5.816 billion, according to data issued
by the
Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ).
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The CBJ attributed this growth to an
increase in the number of tourists arrivals by about 2.69 million, with a total
of 5.05 million tourist arrivals in 2022, the Jordan News Agency, Petra,
reported.
Tourism income for last year also slightly
exceeded its pre-pandemic levels, up 0.4 percent from 2019 figures.
Meanwhile,
Jordanians' spending on
international tourism reached $1.467 billion in 2022 — 59.6 percent more than
2021 spending. This accompanied a 58.3 percent rise in the number of Jordanian
tourists who travelled abroad last year, the CBJ data showed.
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