{
 "schema": "molt-country/1",
 "country": {
  "iso": "JO",
  "name": "Jordan",
  "path": "/asia/jordan/"
 },
 "built": "2026-10-29",
 "contacts": null,
 "contacts_note": "no contact data exists in this file; it is absent, not hidden",
 "perimeters": {
  "vis_intl": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "международные посетители: с ночёвкой и однодневные, включая иорданцев, живущих за рубежом",
    "en": "international visitors, overnight and same-day, Jordanians residing abroad included",
    "ar": "الزوار الدوليون: سياح المبيت وزوار اليوم الواحد، بمن فيهم الأردنيون المقيمون في الخارج"
   }
  },
  "vis_night": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "посетители с ночёвкой, включая иорданцев, живущих за рубежом",
    "en": "overnight visitors, Jordanians residing abroad included",
    "ar": "سياح المبيت، بمن فيهم الأردنيون المقيمون في الخارج"
   }
  },
  "vis_day": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "однодневные посетители, без ночёвки",
    "en": "same-day visitors, no overnight stay",
    "ar": "زوار اليوم الواحد"
   }
  },
  "vis_exp": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "иорданцы, живущие за рубежом, — отдельная группа министерства",
    "en": "Jordanians residing abroad, a separate ministry group",
    "ar": "الأردنيون المقيمون في الخارج"
   },
   "note": "a component of vis_intl, not an addition to it; never summed with the other groups as 'foreign'"
  },
  "cbj_rec": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "туристические поступления ЦБ Иордании, включая расходы иорданцев, живущих за рубежом",
    "en": "Central Bank of Jordan tourism receipts, spending by Jordanians residing abroad included",
    "ar": "الدخل السياحي وفق البنك المركزي الأردني، بما فيه إنفاق الأردنيين المغتربين"
   },
   "note": "not bop_cre of the French kind: the publisher reports diaspora spending as its own group and prints its growth separately"
  },
  "cbj_out": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "расходы иорданцев и резидентов на поездки за рубеж",
    "en": "travel spending abroad by Jordanians and residents",
    "ar": "إنفاق الأردنيين والمقيمين على السفر"
   }
  },
  "site_visits": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "посещения объектов министерства по билетам, повторные визиты считаются",
    "en": "ticketed visits to ministry sites, repeat visits counted",
    "ar": "زيارات المواقع السياحية، والزيارات المتكررة محتسبة"
   }
  },
  "petra_pdtra": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "посетители Петры по данным управления региона Петра",
    "en": "Petra visitors as counted by the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority",
    "ar": "زوار البترا وفق سلطة إقليم البترا التنموي السياحي"
   }
  },
  "tdgdp": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "прямой туристский ВВП, % ВВП",
    "en": "tourism direct GDP, percent of GDP",
    "ar": "الناتج المحلي الإجمالي السياحي المباشر، نسبة من الناتج"
   }
  },
  "jobs_ti": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "занятые в туристских отраслях",
    "en": "employed persons in the tourism industries",
    "ar": "العاملون في الأنشطة السياحية"
   }
  },
  "pos_mota": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "туристы и ночёвки по месту проживания, ряд министерства; охват не объявлен издателем — подмножество, не все ночующие",
    "en": "tourists and nights by place of stay, ministry series; coverage not stated by the publisher — a subset, not all overnight visitors",
    "ar": "السياح والليالي حسب مكان الإقامة"
   },
   "note": "the series is a subset whose definition the publisher does not state (1,657,946 tourists in 2019, far below the national count of overnight visitors). Shares between places are usable; levels are not national hotel nights."
  },
  "stock_mota": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "фонд гостиниц министерства: классифицированные, апарт-отели, хостелы и кемпинги, неклассифицированные",
    "en": "ministry accommodation stock: classified hotels, apartment hotels, hostels and camps, unclassified",
    "ar": "المنشآت الفندقية"
   }
  },
  "psd_arr": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "прибытия неиорданцев на границе, все цели поездки (Управление общественной безопасности)",
    "en": "border arrivals of non-Jordanians, all purposes (Public Security Directorate)",
    "ar": "القادمون من غير الأردنيين عبر الحدود"
   },
   "note": "not tourists: workers, students and transit included; never compared with vis_intl without saying so"
  },
  "cbj_rec_q": {
   "label_i18n": {
    "ru": "поступления по статье «поездки», ЦБ, поквартально, млн динаров",
    "en": "travel receipts, Central Bank of Jordan, quarterly, JOD million",
    "ar": "مقبوضات السفر ربعياً"
   }
  }
 },
 "figures": {
  "visitors": {
   "value": 7040000,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "vis_intl",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, annual figures as reported 2026-02-09 (Khaberni, citing Al-Ghad)",
   "state": "est",
   "why_est": "publisher page unreachable from this build; figure is press quoting the ministry; the total is published as 'over 7 million' and 7.040 is overnight + same-day"
  },
  "visitors_prev": {
   "value": 6108100,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "vis_intl",
   "year": 2024,
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est",
   "note": "5.217 m overnight + 891.1 k same-day; the release prints 'over 6.1 million'"
  },
  "overnight": {
   "value": 5832000,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "vis_night",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via press, 2026-02-09",
   "state": "est",
   "yoy_pct": 12.0
  },
  "overnight_prev": {
   "value": 5217000,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "vis_night",
   "year": 2024,
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est"
  },
  "same_day": {
   "value": 1208000,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "vis_day",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est",
   "yoy_pct": 36.0
  },
  "same_day_prev": {
   "value": 891100,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "vis_day",
   "year": 2024,
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est",
   "note": "the press text prints '891.1 million'; the unit is thousands, read from the arithmetic of the 36% growth"
  },
  "receipts": {
   "value": 7790000000,
   "unit": "usd",
   "perimeter": "cbj_rec",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Central Bank of Jordan, preliminary data, 2026-01-15 (via Petra News Agency / ICE Amman)",
   "state": "est",
   "yoy_pct": 7.6,
   "why_est": "preliminary; the CBJ publishes in dinars, the dinar figure has not been seen"
  },
  "receipts_prev": {
   "value": 7239000000,
   "unit": "usd",
   "perimeter": "cbj_rec",
   "year": 2024,
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est",
   "yoy_pct": -2.3
  },
  "receipts_dec": {
   "value": 630000000,
   "unit": "usd",
   "perimeter": "cbj_rec",
   "year": 2025,
   "period": "2025-12",
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est",
   "yoy_pct": 15.1
  },
  "outbound": {
   "value": 2048000000,
   "unit": "usd",
   "perimeter": "cbj_out",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "same release",
   "state": "est",
   "yoy_pct": 5.8
  },
  "site_visits_total": {
   "value": 2983567,
   "unit": "visit",
   "perimeter": "site_visits",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities data reviewed by Al Mamlaka, 2026-01-20",
   "state": "est",
   "split_pct": {
    "foreign": 54,
    "jordanian": 41,
    "arab": 5
   }
  },
  "petra_visitors": {
   "value": 582550,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "petra_pdtra",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "PDTRA via Petra News Agency, 2026-02-05",
   "state": "ok",
   "yoy_pct": 27,
   "foreign": 373752,
   "foreign_prev": 257284,
   "prev": 457215
  },
  "tdgdp_share": {
   "value": 12.6,
   "unit": "pct",
   "perimeter": "tdgdp",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Central Bank of Jordan via Jordan Data Portal (Department of Statistics), jdp.dos.gov.jo, read 2026-10-29; series updated 2026-07-25",
   "state": "ok",
   "prev": 13.55,
   "peak": {
    "year": 2023,
    "value": 14.48
   }
  },
  "jobs": {
   "value": 59775,
   "unit": "p",
   "perimeter": "jobs_ti",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Department of Statistics via Jordan Data Portal (Department of Statistics), jdp.dos.gov.jo, read 2026-10-29; updated 2026-03-06",
   "state": "ok",
   "prev": 56321
  }
 },
 "series": {
  "visitors_by_group_2025": {
   "perimeter": "vis_intl",
   "year": 2025,
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via Khaberni / Al-Ghad, 2026-02-09",
   "state": "est",
   "rows": [
    {
     "group": "arab",
     "value": 3842000,
     "prev": 3268000,
     "yoy_pct": 17.5
    },
    {
     "group": "jordanians_abroad",
     "value": 1713000,
     "prev": 1734000,
     "yoy_pct": -1.2,
     "perimeter": "vis_exp"
    },
    {
     "group": "europe",
     "value": 955000,
     "prev": 671300,
     "yoy_pct": 42.2,
     "note": "'over 955 thousand'"
    },
    {
     "group": "asia",
     "value": 246400,
     "prev": 209700,
     "yoy_pct": 17.5
    },
    {
     "group": "americas",
     "value": 216400,
     "prev": 176400,
     "yoy_pct": 22.6,
     "note": "'over 216.4 thousand'"
    },
    {
     "group": "africa",
     "value": 67000,
     "prev": 47400,
     "yoy_pct": 41.3,
     "note": "'over 67 thousand'"
    }
   ],
   "sum_check": {
    "sum": 7039800,
    "control": "visitors",
    "control_value": 7040000,
    "delta": -200,
    "verdict": "rounding of 'over' figures; KNOWN_DELTA, not a defect"
   }
  },
  "top_markets_order_h1_2025": {
   "perimeter": "vis_night",
   "period": "2025-H1",
   "state": "rank",
   "order": [
    "jordanians_abroad",
    "SA",
    "SY",
    "PS",
    "IL"
   ],
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via Skift, 2025-07-17",
   "note": "markets ordered; the diaspora is the first source market"
  },
  "market_9m_2025": {
   "SA": 776000,
   "SY": 400000,
   "arab_total": 2500000,
   "period": "2025-01..09",
   "perimeter": "vis_intl",
   "state": "est",
   "source": "Ministry via Jordan News, 2025-10-16",
   "note": "the article does not say overnight or total; filed as vis_intl with that doubt"
  },
  "receipts_2026_ytd": {
   "perimeter": "cbj_rec",
   "state": "est",
   "source": "Central Bank of Jordan, preliminary",
   "rows": [
    {
     "period": "2026-Q1",
     "value_usd": 1600000000,
     "yoy_pct": -4,
     "source_note": "AGBI 2026-04-22"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-03",
     "value_usd": 410000000,
     "yoy_pct": -23,
     "source_note": "AGBI 2026-04-22; the month of peak regional hostilities"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-H1",
     "value_usd": 3500000000,
     "yoy_pct": -5.3,
     "source_note": "Petra News Agency 2026-07-20"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-06",
     "value_usd": 685000000,
     "yoy_pct": 7.0,
     "source_note": "Petra News Agency 2026-07-20"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-08",
     "value_usd": 1139400000,
     "yoy_pct": 17.2,
     "source_note": "Jordan News 2026-09-17"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-01..08",
     "value_usd": 5557600000,
     "yoy_pct": 2.9,
     "source_note": "Jordan News 2026-09-17"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-09",
     "value_usd": 794300000,
     "yoy_pct": 21.5,
     "source_note": "Arab News 2026-10-27"
    },
    {
     "period": "2026-01..09",
     "value_usd": 6350000000,
     "yoy_pct": 4.9,
     "source_note": "Arab News 2026-10-27"
    }
   ],
   "by_group_yoy_2026_01_09": {
    "europe": -23.7,
    "us": -16.3,
    "jordanians_abroad": -4.1,
    "arab": 18.8,
    "asia": 12.3,
    "other": -38.2
   },
   "reading": "the year is carried by Arab visitors; European and American spending is down by a fifth to a quarter. For a luxury hotel the second fact matters more than the total."
  },
  "stock_by_type": {
   "perimeter": "stock_mota",
   "unit": "[establishments, rooms]",
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via Jordan Data Portal (Department of Statistics), jdp.dos.gov.jo, read 2026-10-29; updated 2024-04-19; last year 2022",
   "state": "ok",
   "rows": {
    "2019": {
     "classified": [
      270,
      20442
     ],
     "apartment": [
      184,
      6055
     ],
     "hostel_camp": [
      52,
      1187
     ],
     "unclassified": [
      98,
      2659
     ],
     "total": [
      604,
      30343
     ]
    },
    "2022": {
     "classified": [
      290,
      21662
     ],
     "apartment": [
      170,
      4881
     ],
     "hostel_camp": [
      60,
      1461
     ],
     "unclassified": [
      87,
      1977
     ],
     "total": [
      607,
      29981
     ]
    }
   },
   "sum_check": "parts equal total bit for bit in 2019 and 2022 (604/30,343; 607/29,981)"
  },
  "nights_by_place_2019": {
   "perimeter": "pos_mota",
   "year": 2019,
   "source": "Ministry of Tourism via Jordan Data Portal (Department of Statistics), jdp.dos.gov.jo, read 2026-10-29; updated 2022-07-01; series 2016-2020",
   "state": "ok",
   "why_2019": "2020 is the COVID year (nights -85%); no later year is published on this perimeter. §4: unity of perimeter over freshness — the whole column is 2019.",
   "rows": [
    {
     "place": "Amman",
     "tourists": 613201,
     "nights": 1911758,
     "tourists_2018": 403961,
     "nights_2018": 1202078
    },
    {
     "place": "Petra",
     "tourists": 396298,
     "nights": 841867,
     "tourists_2018": 270013,
     "nights_2018": 514361
    },
    {
     "place": "Aqaba",
     "tourists": 212168,
     "nights": 732112,
     "tourists_2018": 130389,
     "nights_2018": 594659
    },
    {
     "place": "Dead Sea",
     "tourists": 234193,
     "nights": 494512,
     "tourists_2018": 149029,
     "nights_2018": 334817
    },
    {
     "place": "Wadi Rum",
     "tourists": 165200,
     "nights": 225038,
     "tourists_2018": 86334,
     "nights_2018": 119787
    },
    {
     "place": "Madaba",
     "tourists": 18213,
     "nights": 31138,
     "tourists_2018": 13795,
     "nights_2018": 24570
    },
    {
     "place": "Tafileh",
     "tourists": 8553,
     "nights": 11068,
     "tourists_2018": 6115,
     "nights_2018": 7705
    },
    {
     "place": "Maiin",
     "tourists": 4243,
     "nights": 7266,
     "tourists_2018": 4439,
     "nights_2018": 7564
    },
    {
     "place": "other",
     "tourists": 1867,
     "nights": 3471,
     "tourists_2018": 2850,
     "nights_2018": 4781
    },
    {
     "place": "Ajlun",
     "tourists": 1022,
     "nights": 1438,
     "tourists_2018": 636,
     "nights_2018": 860
    },
    {
     "place": "Karak",
     "tourists": 1100,
     "nights": 1395,
     "tourists_2018": 504,
     "nights_2018": 635
    },
    {
     "place": "Irbid",
     "tourists": 272,
     "nights": 770,
     "tourists_2018": 179,
     "nights_2018": 318
    },
    {
     "place": "Azraq",
     "tourists": 358,
     "nights": 710,
     "tourists_2018": 182,
     "nights_2018": 188
    },
    {
     "place": "Baptism",
     "tourists": 349,
     "nights": 688,
     "tourists_2018": 164,
     "nights_2018": 242
    },
    {
     "place": "Alshobaq",
     "tourists": 242,
     "nights": 564,
     "tourists_2018": 102,
     "nights_2018": 116
    },
    {
     "place": "Jarash",
     "tourists": 424,
     "nights": 525,
     "tourists_2018": 291,
     "nights_2018": 423
    },
    {
     "place": "Oum qays",
     "tourists": 106,
     "nights": 211,
     "tourists_2018": null,
     "nights_2018": null
    },
    {
     "place": "Maan",
     "tourists": 45,
     "nights": 86,
     "tourists_2018": null,
     "nights_2018": null
    },
    {
     "place": "Nebo",
     "tourists": 54,
     "nights": 58,
     "tourists_2018": null,
     "nights_2018": null
    },
    {
     "place": "Balqa",
     "tourists": 12,
     "nights": 36,
     "tourists_2018": null,
     "nights_2018": null
    },
    {
     "place": "Zarqa",
     "tourists": 10,
     "nights": 20,
     "tourists_2018": null,
     "nights_2018": null
    },
    {
     "place": "Debbine",
     "tourists": 16,
     "nights": 16,
     "tourists_2018": null,
     "nights_2018": null
    }
   ],
   "control": {
    "nights": 4264747,
    "tourists": 1657946
   },
   "sum_check": "21 places + other sum to the published totals bit for bit, 2016-2020"
  },
  "seasonality_receipts_2019": {
   "perimeter": "cbj_rec_q",
   "unit": "JOD m",
   "year": 2019,
   "state": "ok",
   "source": "Central Bank of Jordan via Jordan Data Portal (Department of Statistics), jdp.dos.gov.jo, read 2026-10-29; series ends 2021Q4",
   "rows": [
    {
     "period": "2019Q1",
     "value": 878
    },
    {
     "period": "2019Q2",
     "value": 976.5
    },
    {
     "period": "2019Q3",
     "value": 1290.7
    },
    {
     "period": "2019Q4",
     "value": 963
    }
   ],
   "peak_trough": 1.47,
   "note": "2019 is the last full year before COVID; 2021 is recovery and not a season. Peak Q3 (summer, Gulf and diaspora), trough Q1. Ratio 1.47."
  },
  "pipeline": [],
  "price_shelves": [],
  "airport_pax_monthly": []
 },
 "gaps": [
  {
   "key": "publisher_pages_unreachable",
   "note": "mota.gov.jo and cbj.gov.jo refuse both this build's network and the owner's built-in browser (2026-10-29). Every ministry and central-bank figure above came through press or the Petra News Agency and stays est until the publisher's own table is seen. Needs a manual download: MoTA annual statistical bulletin 2025 (xlsx/pdf) and CBJ monthly tourism receipts table in JOD."
  },
  {
   "key": "opendata_frozen_2017",
   "note": "opendata.gov.jo carries the ministry series (nights in classified hotels by location and country group, by classification and month, site visitors by nationality) only to 2017 ('[2017]' in every title). Not a current source; recorded so the next pass does not take it for one."
  },
  {
   "key": "regions_series",
   "note": "resolved in structure: 21 places of stay (not governorates) found on jdp.dos.gov.jo, sums bit-match; last representative year 2019. A 2024/2025 regional table has not been found anywhere reachable."
  },
  {
   "key": "seasonality",
   "note": "quarterly CBJ receipts 2005-2021 found; 2019 used. Monthly 2024/2025 still not published in a reachable table."
  },
  {
   "key": "receipts_by_group_absolute",
   "note": "the CBJ releases print growth by group but no group amounts; the diaspora share of receipts is therefore unknown, not zero."
  },
  {
   "key": "un_tourism",
   "note": "UN Tourism TF series for Jordan (overnight arrivals, published rank) not yet pulled."
  },
  {
   "key": "receipts_jod",
   "note": "CBJ publishes in dinars; the dinar annual 2025 figure not seen. 7.79 bn USD at the peg of 0.709 is about 5.52 bn JOD — a conversion, not a published figure."
  },
  {
   "key": "jdp_stale",
   "note": "jdp.dos.gov.jo (opened by the owner 2026-10-29) carries the ministry series only to 2018-2022; the regional place-of-stay series stops in 2020. Only tourism direct GDP share and tourism employment reach 2025."
  },
  {
   "key": "alos_total_defect",
   "note": "the publisher's 'average length of stay, total' (42.73 nights in 2019) is the SUM of the 22 place averages, not an average; nights/tourists gives 2.57. Never print the published total."
  },
  {
   "key": "poe_unit",
   "note": "'Arrivals by point of entry' and 'by means of transport' are labelled unit Number but are thousands (QAIA 3,797 in 2019; the point-of-entry sum 8,435 equals 8,434,602 by nationality group). Read as thousands."
  },
  {
   "key": "site_visits_two_perimeters",
   "note": "the yearbook series 'visitors to museums and archaeological sites' gives 4,552,036 (2019) and 4,044,610 (2022); the ministry press series gives 2,610,732 (2024) and 2,983,567 (2025). The press figure for 2023 (6,008,026) sits on the yearbook scale, not the press scale. Two perimeters; neither is summed with the other and the 2023 figure is not placed in the press series."
  },
  {
   "key": "psd_vs_mota",
   "note": "PSD border arrivals of non-Jordanians (8.43 m, 2019) include workers, students and transit and exclude Jordanians abroad; the ministry's visitors include the diaspora. Different populations, both called arrivals."
  },
  {
   "key": "series/pipeline",
   "owed_by": "Travel Intelligence Office",
   "note": "series declared and empty: the shape is fixed so that delivery needs no schema change"
  },
  {
   "key": "series/price_shelves",
   "owed_by": "Travel Intelligence Office",
   "note": "series declared and empty: the shape is fixed so that delivery needs no schema change"
  },
  {
   "key": "series/airport_pax_monthly",
   "owed_by": "Travel Intelligence Office",
   "note": "series declared and empty: the shape is fixed so that delivery needs no schema change"
  }
 ],
 "registers": {
  "delivery": "private",
  "note": "row-level register data is not published here; these are counts",
  "counts": {
   "hotels_five": 48,
   "hotels_all": 60,
   "rooms_ok": 14,
   "michelin_keys": 5,
   "places": 72,
   "unesco": 8,
   "events": 26,
   "sites_with_year_2025": 9
  },
  "definitions": {
   "hotels_five": "five-star category on the JHA/MoTA register (subset of hotels_all)",
   "hotels_all": "upper-tier properties on file: hotels_five + off-scale distinctive (9) + category unconfirmed (3); includes 1 closed"
  }
 },
 "summary_keys": {
  "starred_tables_on_file": 0,
  "guide_tables_on_file": 0,
  "note": "MICHELIN Guide does not cover Jordan restaurants; ranked tables are MENA's 50 Best, not stars"
 },
 "not_built": {
  "beach-clubs": "no rated beach-club register in Jordan; Aqaba beaches are hotel or public frontage (checked 2026-10-29)"
 }
}