Jordan sees tourism numbers drop by 10% in first quarter of 2013


Skift Take

Jordan has focused promotional efforts on western journalists and travel bloggers, yet the nation has only seen numbers from those regions decline. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabian travelers and other visitors from the region are picking up the slack.
Despite the overall drop in the number of tourists who visited the Kingdom in the first quarter of the year, the number of Arab visitors increased during that period, Tourism Minister Ibrahim Saif said on Saturday. Saif noted that the January-March period witnessed a 10 per cent drop in the total number of visitors who ca