AMMAN —
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Nayef Al-Fayez has affirmed
that his ministry is seeking, through the 2021-2025 National Tourism Strategy,
which has been recently approved by the cabinet, to go beyond the figures
recorded in 2019, before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to
the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
In remarks to Petra on Monday, Fayez indicated that the national tourism
strategy, which is consistent with the government’s economic priorities program
for 2021-2023, centers around five main themes: tourism product development,
human resources, marketing, and heritage management and protection.
He added that the strategy aims at doubling the number of tourists as well as
revenue by 2025, noting that in 2019 about 5.3 million tourists visited the
Kingdom and revenue from tourism in that same year amounted to JD4.1 billion.
Jordan's tourism income, the minister said, recorded an increase during the
first 11 months of this year amounting to JD1.692 billion against JD1 billion
in 2020, according to data issued by the
Central Bank of Jordan.
He also stated that the total number of tourists that visited the Kingdom in
the January–November period of the current year surpassed 2.1 million, while
the number of overnight tourists inched up by 8.9 percent, noting that these
figures exceed expectations and bode well for the recovery of the tourism
sector.
Talking about the domestic tourism program "
Urdun Jannah" Fayez
indicated that it aims at stimulating and revitalizing domestic tourism, and encouraging
citizens to visit dozens of tourist destinations, pointing out that more than
50 percent of the cost of the trips under this scheme are covered by the ministry
and the Jordan Tourism Board.
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