Friday, January 19, 2024
Tourism revenue in Jordan saw a huge increase in 2023, according to a report by the nation’s state-run news agency.
Jordan’s revenue from tourism recorded a remarkable surge during the fiscal year 2023, reaching a total of $7.4bn. A news portal reported this.
This figure represents an increase of 27.4 per cent and is attributed to a surge in the number of tourists.
It reached more than 6.3m.
Jordan tourism revenue
Data issued by the Central Bank showed that the tourism revenue in December 2023 amounted to JD359.3m ($507m).
It is a 3.4 per cent decrease in comparison with December 2022. It is due to an 8 per cent decline in tourist numbers.
In 2023, the Kingdom’s income from tourism increased by 27.4 per cent. Preliminary data issued by the Central Bank of Jordan reported this.
The data showed that the country’s tourism income has reached JD7,409.7 million in 2023, up from JD5,253.5 in 2022.
It is pointing that the number of tourists who visited Jordan in 2023, was up to 6,353,800 visitors.
Further, the data revealed that the number of visitors last year rose by around 25.8 per cent, when compared with the number of tourists in 2022.
Adding that tourism income last December, was nearly JD359.3 million, representing a decline of around 3.4 per cent when compared with the same month in 2022.
The slight decline in tourism revenue during December was due to a drop in the number of tourists which amounted to 416,600.
Adding that tourism revenue amounted to $3.456 billion during the first six months of 2023.
Mahmoud Majali, owner of a travel agency office in Amman said that the low-cost airlines and the current marketing strategies are the main reasons for the boom in the Kingdom’s tourism.
He noted that Jordan’s tourism figures are likely to rise in 2024.
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