{"id":3478,"date":"2015-06-22T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2015\/06\/22\/jordan-fear-of-regional-conflicts-keeps-tourists-away\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:03:38","slug":"jordan-fear-of-regional-conflicts-keeps-tourists-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: Fear of regional conflicts keeps tourists away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.0090026855469px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">MMAN, Jordan &#8211; Jordan&#8217;s tourism revenues fell by 15 percent in the first quarter of the year as visitors stayed away with conflicts raging in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, the tourism minister said Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.0090026855469px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Some believe that Jordan is part of the problem underway in the region,&#8221; said Tourism Minister Nayef al-Fayez, insisting that was a mistaken perception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.0090026855469px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are not part of the problem and we are not the cause. We should not be paying the price,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.0090026855469px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Nayef announced the launch of an advertising campaign to woo visitors to tourist attractions in Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra &#8211; a UNESCO World Heritage site &#8211; and the Dead Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.0090026855469px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the first quarter of 2015, Jordan earned $1.2 billion (1.07 billion euros) from tourism revenues. For all of 2014 the industry brought in $4.4 billion in revenues, with the country welcoming 5.5 million visitors, Nayef said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15.0090026855469px; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tourism contributes 14 percent to Jordan&#8217;s gross domestic product and is, with remittances from Jordanians working abroad, among the top sources of hard currency earnings in the kingdom of 6.5 million people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMAN, Jordan &#8211; Jordan&#8217;s tourism revenues fell by 15 percent in the first quarter of the year as visitors stayed away with conflicts raging in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, the tourism minister said Monday. &#8220;Some believe that Jordan is part of the problem underway in the region,&#8221; said Tourism Minister Nayef al-Fayez, insisting that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---tourist-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}