The Central Bank of Jordan revealed that the Kingdom’s revenues from tourism income increased during January 2022 by 112.2 million dinars ($158.3 million), or 188.4 percent, compared to its level during the same month last year, it reached 171.8 million dinars (242.3 million dollars). This came as a result of an increase in the number of tourists during the same month by 138.7 thousand, to reach 205.5 thousand.
Tourism income from non-resident Jordanians constituted 40.7 percent of the total tourism income, it was followed by income from Arab countries (except for the Gulf countries) with 22.3 percent of the total tourism income, the most prominent of them is Iraq, with a contribution rate of (7.7 percent), Syria (4.0 percent), and Palestine (3.4 percent).
In the third place, tourists came from the Arab Gulf countries, with a contribution rate of 19.8 percent, among the most prominent are Saudi Arabia (10.4 percent), Kuwait (4.5 percent), and the Sultanate of Oman (2.2 percent). In fourth place, European nationality came with a contribution rate of 9.2 percent, most notably Germany, France, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia and Hungary, with a total share of 5.8 percent of total tourism income. As for the United States of America, it accounted for 2.8 percent of the total tourism income.
Source (Al-Ghad Jordanian Newspaper, Edited)
