Jordan’s tourism revenues exceeds $1bn

Jordan’s tourism revenues rose in the first four months of 2014 by 11.1 % to $1.026 billion compared to $924.4 million in the same period of 2013, according to the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ). The Bank said on Wednesday that Jordan’s tourism revenues rose for the third consecutive month and increased in March this year by 9.1 % to reach $370 million. The CBJ attributed the rise in revenues to the increase in the number of visitors from the Arab Gulf states, the United States, Libya and Yemen . It said that these developments point to recovery in the tourism sector, which is one of the main sources of foreign currency income for the Kingdom.