AMMAN, Jordan - Ndalama zokopa alendo ku Jordan zidatsika ndi 15 peresenti m'gawo loyamba la chaka pomwe alendo adakhala kutali ndi mikangano yomwe ikuchitika ku Iraq ndi Syria, nduna ya zokopa alendo idatero Lolemba.

"Ena akukhulupirira kuti Jordan ndi gawo lavuto lomwe likuchitika m'derali," adatero Nduna ya Tourism Nayef al-Fayez, akuumirira kuti anali malingaliro olakwika.

“Ife sitiri mbali ya vuto komanso sife amene ayambitsa. Sitiyenera kulipira mtengowo,” adatero.

Nayef adalengeza kukhazikitsidwa kwa kampeni yotsatsa kuti akope alendo ku malo okopa alendo ku Jordan, kuphatikiza mzinda wakale wa Petra - malo a UNESCO World Heritage - ndi Nyanja Yakufa.

M'gawo loyamba la 2015, Jordan adapeza $ 1.2 biliyoni (1.07 biliyoni euro) kuchokera ku ndalama zokopa alendo. Kwa chaka chonse cha 2014 makampaniwa adabweretsa ndalama zokwana $4.4 biliyoni, dzikolo limalandira alendo 5.5 miliyoni, Nayef adatero.

Tourism imathandizira 14 peresenti kuzinthu zonse zapakhomo za Jordan ndipo, ndi ndalama zochokera ku Jordania omwe amagwira ntchito kunja, pakati pa magwero apamwamba opeza ndalama muufumu wa anthu 6.5 miliyoni.

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Nayef announced the launch of an advertising campaign to woo visitors to tourist attractions in Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra –.
Jordan’s tourism revenues fell by 15 percent in the first quarter of the year as visitors stayed away with conflicts raging in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, the tourism minister said Monday.
Tourism contributes 14 percent to Jordan’s gross domestic product and is, with remittances from Jordanians working abroad, among the top sources of hard currency earnings in the kingdom of 6.