The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) on Thursday (January 18th) announced that the kingdom’s tourism revenues increased by 12.5% in 2017, to $4.6 billion, up from $4.1 billion in 2016, the Jordan Times reported.
The increase was mainly due to an 8.7% rise in the total number of tourists in 2017, the CBJ said in a statement carried by the Jordanian news agency, Petra.
In December, the kingdom’s revenues from tourism went up by 9.1%, reaching $340.9 million, compared to the same month in 2016, as the result of the increase in the total number of tourists by 6.2% compared to the same month in 2016, the statement added.
There were 3.911 million overnight tourists until the end of November, compared with 3.574 million during the same 11 months of last year, according to Tourism Ministry figures.
