AMMAN — The Jordan Tourism Board announced the sale of
unified tickets, which enables tourists to visit more than 40 biblical and
historic sites across the Kingdom, including the famed Petra.
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The ticket,
which costs JD70, also exempts its owner of Jordanian visa fees upon entry into
the Kingdom, provided that sightseer spends more than two nights in Jordan.
Awni Kawar, chairman of the Jordan Inbound Tour Operators Association,
told
Jordan News that the decision of Jordan Tourism Board “has no real
impact in the field”.
“The average
accommodation of foreign tourists is one week,” he said. “Therefore, they will
be unable to visit all the designated tourist sites.”
Kawar said that
“the tourist does not have the luxury of time to visit more than 10 to 15
tourist sites in the week spent in Jordan.”
“Increasing the
number of sites under the unified ticket gave the tourists a wider variety of
places to see, but there is no room to visit them all,”
Chief
Commissioner at Petra Development and Tourism Regional Authority Suleiman
Al-Farajat told
Jordan News that “almost 50 percent of tourists visit
Petra by booking through jordanpass.jo, which contributed to further promoting
tourism in Jordan.”
He said that
“the unified ticket is very useful and allows tourists to visit more than one
place and site with one card”.
“The idea is not
new, but was developed by increasing the number of tourist sites in its recent
edition,” he pointed out.
He stressed that
“increasing the number of tourist sites, which sightseers are allowed to enter
through the unified card is an incentive to guide tourists to diverse areas.
They may not be as famous as Petra and Wadi Rum, but effectively this will
promote them.”
Tour guide Atef
Zaidan believed that increasing tourist sites may have a positive aspect in
terms of attracting tourists and encouraging them to stay longer in Jordan.
“This will
contribute to introducing tourists to more areas and increasing their fame and
prevalence in the world”, he told
Jordan News.
On the other
hand, he said that increasing the number of areas within a short time “will not
give tourists the right opportunity to enjoy each tourist site as they should.”
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