What is it With Tourists and Jordan's Pink Petra?
Published on: Tuesday 18 June 2019
Visitors to the rose-red city of Petra rose by 44 per cent, or some 128,000 people, when comparing the first five months of 2019 with 2018, Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) Managing Director Abed Al Razzaq Arabiyat said on Tuesday.
Last year, around 292,000 people came to Petra, some 220km south of Amman, by the end of May, Arabiyat said, adding that this year that number totalled 420,000.
The number of foreign tourists to the Kingdom in general witnessed a remarkable increase, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported, citing a JTB statement.
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