Low hotel occupancy rate of 40% during the holidays Thursday and Saturday

Director General of the Jordan Hotels Association left Majali said that the occupancy rate of hotels saw a significant drop in a few days leave and public holidays, which began last Thursday and ended on Saturday, despite the presence of two occasions two main celebration Kingdom with a calendar year, then the celebration of the birth of Prophet Mohammad yesterday. Majali added in a press statement that the decline rate reached 40% long-reality Booked in UK hotels, which led to a decline in share of the job with tourists, both local or foreign tourists. On the other hand in the same subject head of tour guides association Yasrh Khaled pointed out that the proportion of tourism in the UK has seen a significant decline in tourist areas in the Kingdom, in both Petra and Aqaba and other areas.

  He stressed that the decline amounted to about fifty percent compared to the same time last year, pointing out that the reasons for the decline, ranging from the low tourism marketing process, in addition to regional and local conditions that occur in the region.

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