{"id":214478,"date":"2019-05-23T19:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=214478"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:24:21","slug":"jordan-nearly-doubles-budget-to-promote-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/jordan-nearly-doubles-budget-to-promote-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan nearly doubles budget to promote tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amman \u2014 Jordan\u2019s government has increased the allocations to the Jordan Tourism Board (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitjordan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JTB<\/a>), the tourism promotion agency in the country, from JD 9 million (USD 12.7 million) to JD 17 million (USD 24 million) this year, according to information from the Jordanian news agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petra.gov.jo\/Include\/Main.jsp?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petra<\/a>. <em>In the picture, tourists floating at the Dead Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The increase reflects the country\u2019s current financial situation and takes into consideration the budget&#8217;s role to the increase in tourism last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan welcomed 4.9 million tourist in 2018, a 7.8% increase over the previous year, while overnight visitors reached 4.15 million, an 8% increase. The industry reached JD 3.727 billion (USD 5.257 billion) in that year.<\/p>\n<p>During the first quarter of 2019, 1.6 million tourists visited Jordan, a 2.5% year-over-year increase, with the number of overnight tourists reaching 1.3 million visitors, up 2.1%, compared with the same period of 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-214475\">Manuel Cohen\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has increased from USD 12.7 million to USD 24 million the allocations to the Jordan Tourism Board, the national tourism marketing agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":214475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[8447,8735,8736,2567,32407,6513,433,2247,6780,3983],"class_list":{"0":"post-214478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-jordan-tourism-board","10":"tag-jtb","11":"tag-market","12":"tag-marketing-en","13":"tag-promotion","14":"tag-tourism","15":"tag-tourists","16":"tag-travels","17":"tag-visitors"},"wps_subtitle":"Government has increased from USD 12.7 million to USD 24 million the allocations to the Jordan Tourism Board, the national tourism marketing agency.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}