Tourism is one of the most important sectors in the Jordanian economy and tourism revenues reach about $3 billion, and in 2012, 4.5 million tourists from various countries visited Jordan’s tourist attractions, including visiting historic sites, such as the famous City of Petra (the site of Greece The World Heritage Co., since 1985, has been one of the seven new Wonders of the World), the Jordan River, Mount Nebo Madaba, and many mosques and medieval churches, as well as non-polluting natural sites (such as Wadi Rum and the northern mountainous region of Jordan in general), As well as cultural, religious and traditional sites.
Jordan also provides therapeutic tourism, particularly in the Dead Sea area, and in several other areas where all natural healing features of salt-rich hot water are available to volcanic clay. Down to the exercise of walking and diving in the coral reefs in Aqaba.
Jordan is the first to attract therapeutic tourism
The transition of Jordan’s ranking to “first place” in the Middle East and the fifth world has helped therapeutic tourism for the second time as a centre for therapeutic tourism and for more than 80 Arab and foreign nationals to be treated.
What distinguishes medical services in Jordan is the competitive cost and high quality of medical services provided by the health sectors, both public and private. In addition, Jordan has become the first in the Middle East and North Africa in therapeutic tourism, and Jordan’s income from therapeutic tourism in The year 2012 rose to 1.2 billion dollars.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of Jordanian people who have been hospitalized has increased to more than 500 thousand patients without escorts during the previous two years and the current year.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Health’s Therapeutic Tourism Directorate, the number of non-Jordanians who had chosen Jordan for treatment last year was about 100 thousand, and between 65-70 percent of them had checked out the outpatient clinics and had not entered hospitals with 30 percent of them hospitalized and received various treatments.
Health economists are due to the fact that Jordan has been developing more than 20 years of medicine, as well as the huge investment in this important service sector, both in doctors and various medical institutions, so that Jordan is matched with developed countries in these fields.
Some 63 private hospitals play a major role in attracting and treating patients from outside Jordan, with private sector hospitals treating about 95 per cent of the total. Non-Jordanian patients, while the number of Jordanian patients treated in the private sector increased to (80%) After signing the health cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Health more than five years ago.
The balance of the prices of medical salaries in comparison with many Western countries, the presence of the labour force capable of dealing and the operation of modern medical technology play an important role in attracting non-Jordanians for treatment.
The Dead Sea
It should be noted that German insurers only send their patients for treatment outside Germany to the eastern beaches of the Dead Sea exclusively for treatment of skin diseases and this area is a warm and sunny area throughout the year, with an average temperature of 30.4 ° C. The magnificent sunlight in the Dead Sea area is absolutely harmless to humans living in that area. As for air, it is dry and saturated with oxygen. The Dead Sea is renowned for its very rich black ventricle with salts and minerals. Dead Sea water contains a high proportion of salts, especially calcium, magnesium and bromine. The unique composition of salts and minerals in those waters is one of the important sources of natural hospitalization, which is supervised in the available resorts by a group of competent persons.
Hammam Maen
The Mayen baths are located 58 kilometers south of Amman, and the area is 120 meters below sea level. It is renowned for its natural resorts and clinics that provide treatment for skin diseases, circulatory diseases, bone pain, joints, back and muscles. Where the Mayen baths are located at the foot of the Abyssal Valley, 150 metres from the sea surface, with a dark, towering mountain that is heated by the underground heat, hot water is made of fiery rocks to pour into the eyes and cascades of a panorama painted by the embrace of nature and its depth of religious and historical heritage. The visitor arrives in the Mayen baths, 46 kilometers southwest of Amman, across different ways in the shadows of the falls. A multi-layered hotel was set up in 1987.
The resort offers tourists for treatment, hospitalization or rest and recuperation with its mineral water, which heals many chronic and incurable diseases, bathing with hot mineral waters and Dead Sea mud and enjoying its multipurpose facilities. The resort is mediated by a tourist village with chalets, a natural pool, saunas and a public swimming pool, an official of the investment company said. The French company had been running the project for 10 years. The water falls from the top of the mountain and makes a magical scent it complements the water that penetrates the al-Zaala sanctuary towards the Dead Sea through the Mayen mountains, extending to the hotel area via Zara, known for its hot water.
Medical Therapeutic Tourism Directorate
The idea of establishing a directorate for the Care and Service of Arab and expatriate patients in the ministry, as well as an office for the reception of patients at Queen Alia International Airport based on the directions of Sami ownership, serves the incoming patient and provides the necessary facilities for the patients of the Arab visitors to care for their affairs and provide them with free services.
The Ministry has established the objectives of the Directorate of Therapeutic Medical Tourism, which is to stimulate and promote medical and therapeutic services and to market Jordan as an advanced medical centre to attract Arab and foreign patients in cooperation with the sectors working in this field. At the same time, the high status of Jordan in the medical fields has been preserved, strengthened and developed. In view of the importance of what this Directorate represents in order to achieve the objectives and implementation of the national strategy, the ministries and other official institutions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Information) will contribute to the achievement of the objectives set by the Directorate.
The Directorate is working on a clear plan of action, which includes the regulatory instructions on how to market Jordan abroad through our embassies in our sister countries and the creation of a liaison office in the Ministry of Health that will liaise with the health authorities in these countries. The Directorate is also working to develop means of communicating with Patients before they arrive in Jordan and send the patient’s medical file for the purpose of due process and to verify the cost of the patient.
The Directorate serves all of the visiting Arab and expatriate patients at all times, free of charge, and assures the Ministry of its credibility in dealing with the patient’s patients and its cooperation with every responsible medical officer at any level, and to keep Jordan in the forefront of medical and therapeutic services to patients. Arabs and expatriates after Jordan became a regional centre in the field of medical service delivery.
Zaid Alajarmah 