- AMMAN: Jordan’s income from tourism jumped by 20.1 percent in the first three quarters of the year, to a record of 1.876 billion dinars ($2.65 billion), the Tourism Ministry said Monday.
The ministry put the tourism earnings in the same period of 2009 at 1.563 billion dinars.
It reported a 19.3 percent increase in the number of tourists visiting Jordan between January and October, to 6.5 million from 5.4 million in the same period of 2009.
Arab tourists accounted for 65 percent while non-Arab visitors represented 18 percent of the total number of tourists, the ministry said.
Jordan depends on its income from tourism as a key source of foreign currency for improving the country’s balance of payments and reducing the deficit in the public budget, economists said.