When the awe of Amman and Jordan -Petra’s finance became dark, the next thing that was noticeable was a crowd or a tribe.
The journalists arrived in Petra earlier one day and beat the heat and tourists, but there was no problem. The weather was cool and instantaneously chilly, and did the tourists’ gag letters want to take a selfie with the wonders of the world? There was almost no.
September is part of Jordan’s highest season, and visitors are eager to explore the country while enjoying the summer heat. However, as a G adventure for the annual GX Summit, the steep tourism caused by the Israeli Hamas War was reduced in the end of September.
Malia Asfour, managing director of the North American Jordan Tourism Committee, said Petra’s share was lowered to 1%. Rose City usually has 5,000 visitors a day.
“We went to tourism excessively,” asfour said. “Now we are in water droplets.”
Asfour said that tourism plunged 70% after the war. But our guide Zuhair Zuriqat is about 90%.
Zuriqat added that Jerash, the home of the most impressive Roman ruins in this country, is now seeing only 300 visitors every day, and he usually has a sharp drop in 3,000 people. In the Dead Sea, the Uber driver said that the decline of tourism was not noticeable, but the area was better than anywhere else.
The US State Department has selected Jordan as the same safety ranking, the level 2 travel advisory, the North American director of Jordan Allure Tours, Cathleen Richards.
Jordan is a direct neighbor of Israel and shared the eastern border that makes it easy for visitors to combine travel to both countries. And the conflict did not pour over the border, but Jordan’s sightseeing did not recover to the level of a cheat.
Zuriqat said: “We are in a noisy neighborhood.”
Asfour is “sightseeing is our oil.” It is our greatest foreign currency from this country. “
Jordan had a record harm to visitors in 2023 despite the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Tourism was initially built by the reservation made at the end of 2023. But now there is a slump, she said.
Nevertheless, Asfour said she was hopeful.
“If you want, there was a crisis every few years.” “So we know that this is a slippery slope that keeps up and down in history, and the demand has been cut off.”
Hope that GX Summit arouses tourism
Jordan bid to GX and held a G adventure “really hard” and held an event. ASFOUR hopes to strengthen tourism thanks to the influence of almost 700 attendees from the event, including journalists, travel advisors and content makers.
Bruce Poon Tip, the founder of G Adventures, said, “What we want to show people here is a tremendous place for Jordan.” It is now obscured at the intersection of many political problems, but it is actually a very safe place.
“G Adventures was always doing its best to show the power of tourism. And we knew that coming here would show that potential and its power better than other destinations.”
What torture and operators see
Nevertheless, travel agencies and travel advisors report a mixed bag of customer interest.
Stephanie Fisher, a travel advisor specializing in Jordan, said the reservation has actually dropped.
She said that if she decided to change the plan because she picked up Jordan, she said she was still prudent. She said she was behind Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
On the other hand, bold travel is seeing a positive change in booking, said Leigh Barnes, president of the Americas. He said a 38% increase this year is rising compared to the same period last year, he said. Barnes said Jordan was the third place in the region, compared to Morocco and Turki.
But he is now the time to visit because of a small crowd and gives travelers a rare and intimate experience in places like Petra or Wadi Rum.
RED Savannah, a operator specializing in Custom Travel, and Globus, the parent of Globus and Cosmos, reported that this year’s reservation has been drastically reduced this year.
But the founder and CEO of Red Savannah, George Morgan-Grenville, said that reservations began to rise after falling in the second quarter and the second quarter, and they were related to the recommendation of travelers who recently visited the United States.
The reservation of Amal Mulhem, the chairman of Travspire, has been suspended, and Cathleen Richards of Jordan Allure Tours is increasing the trust of consumers this fall, and travelers have booked a delayed trip for many years and booked a traveler.
“When they rebuilded the safe, they faced the feeling of feeling like other epidemic,” she said. “But they are the only people in this epidemic. Sightseeing is booming elsewhere.”
