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AMMAN — Tourism revenues in the first four months of the year dropped by 36.6 per cent, standing at JD784 million, the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) announced on Sunday.
CBJ data cited by the Jordan News Agency, Petra, also showed that Jordanians’ expenditures on travel went down by 39.3 per cent to JD191 million compared with the same period of 2019.
The same data also revealed that Jordanian expatriates’ remittances declined by 5.9 per cent (around JD50 million) to JD800 million by the end of April 2020, compared with the January-April period of 2019.
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