AMMAN — Jordan and Palestine have
resumed tourism cooperation after a two-year disruption due to the COVID-19
pandemic, Jordanian Ambassador to Palestine Issam Budour said on Wednesday.
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The pandemic “almost completely” stalled
Jordanian-Palestinian tourism plans, according to Budour. However, “cooperation
and coordination are the way to move forward in joint planning, with the theme
of ‘Tourism Brings us Together’.”
Budour was speaking during the Jordan
Tourism Board’s (JTB) annual gala dinner, held on Wednesday at the Oasis Hotel
in Jericho in the Palestinian Territories.
He called on attendees of the event “to
think creatively" to expand on previously established plans for tourism
cooperation.
Palestinian Minister of Tourism Rula Maayah
said that Palestine’s tourism sector was the first to be hit by the pandemic,
and the last to recover. However, she affirmed that the sector “will recover
soon”.
Meanwhile, JTB representative Khaled Kilani
said Jordan is working to promote its tourist destinations in several Arab
countries, adding that tourism is a source of income for sector's workers and local
communities.
Jordan and Palestine are planning to sign a
tourism cooperation agreement to cover the next three years, he said.
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