AMMAN — The Kingdom saw a 220.4 percent increase in
the number of incoming visitors in the first seven months of this year,
compared to the same period in 2021, recording more than 2.5 million tourists,
a number that exceeds the 1.88 million visitors estimated to arrive in the
National Tourism Strategy for the years 2021–2025, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Nayef Al-Fayez said that 3.4 million
visitors were expected in Jordan by the end of 2022, and that the 2.5 million
already recorded in the first seven months of this year indicate the start of
recovery in the tourism sector.
According to Fayez, “this recovery began during the first quarter of the
year due to the mitigating measures taken and to the removal of the many
obstacles that prevented visitors from coming to Jordan, as well as to the
promotional programs intended to attract larger numbers of people from all over
the world to Jordan.”
He pointed out that “these numbers reflected positively on the tourism
income, which was estimated to exceed JD2.9 billion by the end of 2022”, adding
that, according to figured from the Central Bank of Jordan, tourism revenue
exceeded JD1.5 billion in the first half of the year.
According to the monthly bulletin issued by the Tourism Ministry, the
number of overnight tourists recorded a remarkable 206.7 percent increase over
the same period in 2021, with the number of overnight tourists from European
countries increasing in the first seven months of 2022 by 526.4 percent over
the same period of 2021.
The number of overnight tourists from Gulf Arab states increased during
the first seven months of this year by 404.8 percent over the corresponding
period of 2021, while the number of American tourists visiting Jordan increased
by 307.3 percent.
July witnessed a 125.1 percent increase in the number of international
visitors, who reached 587,257.
According
to data issued by the central bank, tourism income during the first half of
this year grew by 242.7 percent over the same period of last year, to reach
$2.196 billion.
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