Union tourism associations hold a press conference to stand up to the demands of the tourism sector

Confirmed representatives of the private tourism sector on the importance of the tourism sector and achieved revenues Mbdaan resentment of the government's drive to amend the tourism and Systems tourism associations all working in the Kingdom law, and noting that the sector does not tolerate any more of the laws and regulations governing the operation of tourism and inconsistency is difficult to coordinate professional tourism work for the success of in Jordan.

They pointed out during a press conference held by the Federation of Tourism Associations today in Alsnhari Park Hotel on major problems and obstacles taking place in the tourism sector during the current period and explain the viewpoint of the Union tourism associations and members of the Union with all factions to the official figures on the performance of the tourism sector in the UK, has not been the reality of any link and do not reflect the real weakness of the sector.

He said the President of the Federation of Tourism Associations Association Michael Nazzal said the government's drive to pass the amended law, the tourism law, without reference to the tourist associations and the private sector will not achieve the aspirations of the required goals or achieve the expected tourism investment environment, stressing that the sector does not require any new judicial officer added within A group of 19 hand formal granted this status.

Head of Tourism and Travel Association Shaher Hamdan between, in light of the decline in the tourism business and the circumstances surrounding and local, which in turn led to a decline in tourism revenue and increased in the matter worse, the lack of cooperation of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities represented by its Secretary-General, which exceeded participatory called her Majesty the master of the country.

And the lack of cooperation with the Assembly with regard to raising the draft regulations to the Office of Legislation and Opinion without taking the recommendations of the General Authority for Society and even beating out the wall to the detriment of the interests of the agents.

He demanded the lifting of the bill rate for the Law of Tourism targeting fragment Assembly Article No. (2) without the other associations and without Mcharoh Assembly to meet the desire Association is a tourist limited members and meet Massala some of them personal and our demand to withdraw this bill without a response from the ministry at the expense of Assembly members who exceed 670 Edoa.

He said that the claim of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities that the non-tourist Assembly that the ministry is seeking to impose change in the law as they claim they constitute 80% of the total national income from tourism does not actually represent only 20%, according to statistics of the Ministry of Tourism itself.

He called for taking the recommendations of the Commission on inbound tourism in the Assembly on measures to facilitate travel and tourism offices of the competent authorities to attract tourist groups gather in a single instruction booklet by previous agreement with the ministry and the competent authorities.

He stressed that the failure of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities response will lead to the complexity of our own where we will have a protest in front of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Monday, 05.01.2015 has been correspondent competent authorities in this regard.

Vice President of agents Tourism Association and the Jordanian travel and head of the Tourism Council of expatriate at Assembly Fadi Taha Abu Arish said the demands lies in the refusal of tourism offices and working in the inbound tourism travel phrase and detailed project proposed amended law revokes the expatriate profession tourism specialist or separate association fact that contrary to the foundations of tourism that the tourism office is the office that works all the tourism business, and because this trend, which embraced the Ministry of Tourism, based on the recommendation of the class does not represent the tourism sector inflows over the financial burden and hold the tourism work for companies under compelling circumstances experienced by Jordan and does not hold this approach any kind of justice or of the nature of the development of tourism

Add to stop the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of double dealing with agents inbound tourism through involving the unlicensed Djitwa with the Ministry of Social Development in the fateful decisions of the tourism sector expatriate forgetting the Ministry of Tourism that agents Tourism Association and Travel represent all tourism companies coming and not a class does not exceed twenty and thus the impact of this work on a crack and break up the tourism sector

He called to urge the Ministry of Tourism on the work of the recommendations made by the Inbound Tourism Council at Assembly to solve some of the problems and obstacles facing it and ignore the Ministry of Tourism to those recommendations and made of 5 pages with suggestions and solutions with the knowledge that the various security agencies, including the Ministry of Interior made all forms of cooperation to solve these problems.

He called that claim coming from the Ministry of tourism cooperation of order processing and preparation of the instruction booklet and special work tourist guides and that the lack of reference within the Ministry of the various instructions and concerning the work of foreign tourist offices, which have been proposed work booklet agents Tourism Association for convenience Tourism and the approval of each of the ministries of interior, tourism and which includes a brochure proposed bookstore Electronic and paper all instructions of all the security agencies and governmental organizations such as the Ministry of Interior, tourism and border and border crossings and tourist police, which was to stop the work it based on interference hand does not represent the tourism sector and to serve their own interests and the approval of the Ministry of Tourism on it

And increased financial support for the Tourism Board of the possibility of expanding the marketing of tourism abroad and Jordan due to the limited financial resources available to the Authority

And called for a reduction of the sales tax to 7% on hotels in Jordan and a private area of Petra and Aqaba and the Dead Sea, which in turn is reflected on the price of the tourist package offered to tourists and increase preparation tourists

And exempt charter flights and low-cost airline from the departure tax to reflect on the price of tickets and increase preparation tourists.

Meanwhile, deputy chairman of the Association tour guides, Hussein Alababna that 5% of the total tourists Kingdom using the tour guides because of the absence of the national strategy to raise the level of performance of the tourism sector in Jordan.

He pointed out that the political crisis surrounding Jordan is not the direct cause of the decline in tourist arrivals to the kingdom, but the absence of participatory between the two sectors is the main reason.

He also pointed out that the government intends to impose a fine of not less than one thousand dinars and not more than 10 000 dinars on each side exercised tourism professions have been in violation the right settings, bypassing the alarm set by Almnsph of Minister of Tourism Committee so as to satisfy the fine stipulated by official bodies in the ministry, under the amended draft law for tourism in 2014.

And the granting of the bill powers to the Minister of Tourism assign any of the ministry's staff to perform the inspection and control of tourism professionals to ascertain the extent of compliance with the provisions of law and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, so that it is for this purpose that has an employee, while working as a law enforcement body.