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Ammon News - Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Makram Al-Qaisi, held Wednesday separate meetings with France's Ambassador to Jordan, Alexis Le Cour Grandmaison, Australia's Ambassador to Jordan, Bernard Lynch, and China's Ambassador to Jordan, Chen Chuandong.

The meetings covered developing relations between these countries and Jordan in the tourism sector, and enhancing tourism movement from these countries to the Kingdom.

Al-Qaisi discussed the mechanism of joint tourism marketing with these countries, and attracting more tourists and groups to Jordan, in addition to exchanging expertise in archaeological and restoration fields.

The French ambassador said that Jordan is rich in terms of heritage and culture, and has many archaeological and historical sites, stressing the importance of enhancing cooperation in training, developing human resources, developing tourism products, and student exchange in antiquities and archaeological excavations fields, to benefit from French expertise in this field.

The Australian ambassador underlined the importance of enhancing cooperation between the two countries in excavations in archaeological sites, preserving historical and heritage sites and training tourist guides, calling for exchanging expertise in the natural tourism field, especially since the two countries enjoy attractive natural areas, in addition to cooperation in promoting natural tourism in both countries, and cooperation in issues of training and support for women.

The Chinese ambassador said that Jordan is rich in rare artifacts and a country of ancient history and civilization, calling for enhancing cooperation between the two countries, leveraging Chinese expertise in employing technology to develop tourism products, and in various sciences such as food tourism and traditional crafts, and utilizing time to develop and improve the quality of products offered to tourists, and joint promotion.

The ambassadors emphasized deep-rooted ties between their countries and Jordan, expressing their admiration for the Jordanian tourism product and Jordan's security, stability and climate diversity.

They also said that they will encourage their citizens to visit Jordan and its tourist and archaeological sites.