Ammon News - The Kingdom’s tourism revenues saw an increase of $158.3 million in January, which amounts to 188.4 per cent, compared with the same period in 2021 to reach $242.3 million.

The increase was due to an increase in the number of tourists in January by about 138,700 to reach a total of 205,500 tourists, according to the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) data.

Tourism revenue from Jordanian expatriates accounted for 40.7 per cent of the total tourism income, followed by tourists from Arab countries (except for the Gulf countries) with 22.3 per cent, on top of which came Iraq with 7.7 per cent, Syria with 4 per cent and Palestine with 3.4 per cent, the CBJ data showed.

In third place, tourists from the Arab Gulf countries accounted for 19.8 per cent, on top of which came Saudi Arabia with 10.4 per cent, Kuwait with 4.5 per cent, and Oman with 2.2 per cent.

European tourists ranked fourth with 9.2 per cent, on top of which came Germany, France, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia and Hungary with 5.8 per cent of the total tourism revenue, according to the CBJ data.

As for the United States, it accounted for 2.8 per cent of the total tourism income.