The revenues of the tourism sector in Jordan recorded during 2021 an improvement of 90 percent compared to 2020, according to a report issued by the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
According to the ministry, the value of tourism income in 2021 amounted to about 1.9 billion dinars ($2.68 billion), an increase of 90% compared to 2020. The revenues of the tourism sector decreased from 4.1 billion dinars ($5.78 billion) in 2019, to about One billion dinars ($1.41 billion) in 2020, due to the repercussions of the Corona epidemic.
The number of tourists coming to Jordan during the last year 2021 reached 2.358676 million, achieving an increase of 90.2 percent compared to the year 2020, when the number of tourists reached 1.23991 million. Before the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, about 5 million tourists visited Jordan annually, and it reached 7 million tourists during 2008, compared to about one million tourists in 1999.
The tourism sector in Jordan contributes between 12 and 14 percent of the gross domestic product, as Jordan's economy depends to a large extent on the tourism sector, in which the number of employees is estimated at about one hundred thousand people, while the unemployment rate reached about 25 percent during the first quarter of last year.
Source (Al-Sharq al-Awsat Newspaper, Edited)
