Jordan's tourism income jumped by 61 percent during the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period last year, reaching $2.11 billion at the end of last October. Whereas the tourism income of Jordan before the Corona pandemic had reached 5.7 billion dollars in 2019. According to the data issued by the Central Bank, the increase in income came as a result of the increase in the number of tourists during the period from January to the end of October, by about 676 thousand tourists, or 59.7 percent, to reach about 1.8 million tourists, compared to a decline of 75.1 percent during the same period in 2020.
The tourism income from non-resident Jordanians accounted for 44.6 percent of the total tourism income, followed by income from Arab countries (except for the Gulf countries) with 27 percent of the total number of tourists, and then tourists from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries with 14.6 percent.
On the monthly level, the tourism income continued to improve, recording an increase of about 302 million dollars over its level during the same period last year, to reach about 352 million dollars, as a result of the increase in the number of tourists during this month by about 278,000 tourists, reaching 322,000.
Source (The New Arab Newspaper, Edited)
