AMMAN — The first charter plane
from Milan, Italy, carrying tourists onboard landed at
Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) on Thursday, inaugurating a tourist air bridge linking Amman
with Milan, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
The air bridge, launched by
ALPITOUR company,
aims to attract tourists to Jordan with support of
Jordan Tourism Board (JTB).
In a statement, JTB Director-General Abdul
Razzaq Arabiyat said the new tourist route, with one weekly trip through end of
the tourism season, reflects "real growth” in the number of tourists and
tourism activity through charter flights to Jordan.
The JTB is eager to facilitate healthy competitiveness in the aviation sector and harness this competition to stimulate the economy by attracting key investments and boosting Jordan tourism.
The step, he said, came through the joint
efforts of the
Ministry of Tourism and the JTB, while the Jordanian Embassy in
Italy has also been promoting tourism in Jordan.
In addition, the step is in line with the
JTB's efforts to attract charter, low-cost, and regular aircraft from several
countries to
QAIA in Amman and King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba. The
tourism board is working to attract more flights to Amman and Aqaba, which will
allow visitors to see the Kingdom's tourist and archaeological sites, Arabiyat
said.
The JTB is eager to facilitate healthy
competitiveness in the aviation sector and harness this competition to
stimulate the economy by attracting key investments and boosting Jordan
tourism, the director-general said.
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