AMMAN Beginning May 2023, tourists visiting Petra will have the opportunity to gain a new perspective of the rose-red city with the launch of the Petra balloon project, the UNESCO World Heritage site’s newest tourist attraction. The helium-filled balloon flies at an altitude of around 300 metres, carrying a maximum of 30 people in its passenger compartment per trip. The
AMMAN A total of 324,350 tourists visited Petra during the first quarter of 2023, marking a 35 per cent increase compared with the same period in 2019, Al Mamlaka TV reported on Friday. Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA) Suleiman Farajat noted that this number is the “highest ever” in the history of the