Jordan to promote niche products to Indian travelers

November 24, 2009 by dhana · Leave a Comment
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Travelers – jordanian govt, to ease visa entry to jordan for indians. Based on statistics collected by the jordan tourism board, jordan has received 37,000 Indian visitors in 2008. In its efforts to tap Indian tourism arrivals into jordan, the board participaed for the first time India’s leading B2B travel and tourism exchange in New Delhi recently. Eleven jordanian tour operators participated in this expo. Jordan will launch its presence in the Indian market and has appointed Ashish sharma, vice president & COO of celebrations! World tourism consultancy, as its Indiarepresentative. “We will actively pursue marketing activities for jordan tourism Board in India and our foucs will be to organize familiarization trips for trade and media professionals and organize road shows across India”, said sharma. He added jordan offers fun & adventure, history and culture, eco and nature, leisure and wellness, religion and faith, incentive and conference . The country’s MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) industry has come toage. It understands the particular demands of the meetings and incentive market, and strives to exceed expectations. There are daily flights from amman to India offered by Emirates airways, and flights four times a week by other airways like: Royal jordanian, gulf air, and Qatar qirways, he added. The kingdom is attracting considerable investments in hotels and multi-purpose property developments, with particularly lucrativeprojects in Aqaba and the Dead Sea. AS for Amman, it is also embarking on a lot of investment ventures with the continuous growth of its hotel industry whre new hotels are frequently being built. Jordan touches every one of a visitor’s senses-from spicy aromas and culinary pleasures to an invigorating mud wrap, first glimpse of Petra’s Treasury and the sound of desert silence. Jordanians promise that traveleres may even find that Jordan may be able to awaken one’s sixth sense. Travelers are invited to make time to enjoy one of Nature’s most unusual adventure playgrounds; to step back into some of the world’s best preserved nabataean and roman cities; float in-orratheron-the dead sea, the lowest point in the world; and for an even greater adrenaline rush try hand gliding off the crags that tower over Wadi Rum: or abseil down waterfalls in Wadi Mujib.