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AMMAN facing hotels in Pink City (Petra), one of the Seven Wonders of serious challenges, represented a decrease of visitors and tourists, prompting four hotels last year to close, at which time the owners of hotels feared plant closings in no situation continues unchanged.
In this context, the owners of hotels for "tomorrow" The four hotels in the city of Petra from various categories were closed last year due to the decline in occupancy rates and access to zero as arranged fairly heavy losses.
Hoteliers fear that forcing them continued decline in visitors to the closure of their hotels, and this was expressed by the President of the Board of Directors of a hotel in the city of Petra Hussein menisci, where he said that "all Petra hotels threatened with closure in the event of continued decline in the number of tourists in general and Europeans in particular."
  He pointed out that the survival of the case for what it is without the presence of solutions that will increase the pace of the closure of hotels in the city of Petra, noting that many of Petra hotels are suffering from a recession, where some of them almost devoid of tourists.
And it has been discussed with the government, represented by the Ministry of Tourism on the situation faced by the hotels in Petra.
For his part, the owner of a hotel, which closed in the city of Petra Hanna Sawalha said he was "laid off nearly 56 employees of his hotel as a result of the decline of tourism in the city and the high costs incurred by him from rising electricity and diesel prices and other costs."
Sawalha and between the number of workers arrived at his hotel in 2010 about 76 employees, pointing out that after the closure of his hotel temporarily kept the 20 employees until they address the challenges faced by owners of hotels operating in Petra.
Turn; Petra Region Authority Chairman Mohammad Alnoavelh said in response to "questions tomorrow," The political turmoil experienced by neighboring regions caused significantly decrease the number of European tourists and foreigners to the Kingdom which led to a decline in hotel occupancy rates and closing Balbtra 4 of them.
Alnoavelh confirmed that the authority pay great attention to where the topic of power formed a committee to find out the solutions to address the decline in hotel occupancy rates in Petra.